- A foot on the Tide.
Summer Palace Press, 2002
A collection of poetry. - Europe is a woman.
Edited by Anna Aguilar, Amat Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, May 2007.
Anthology of 9 European women poets in English, Finnish etc and Catalan translations. - The Plain of Eve.
Second collection of poetry with publisher, published Nov 2008. - Kids Own Projects
Directing and editing books for children by children
- A world of our own, Coolock, Mar 2007
- Fair and Square, Sligo, Jun 2005
- Mysterious Eye, Cork, May 2005
- Travellers of the World, Drogheda, Dec 2003
- Stand Up/Sit Down, Navan, Jun 2003
- Can't Lose Cant (Traveller Language), Kildare, Apr 2003
- Clotty Malotty and all her Friends, Finglas, Mar 2003
- A-Z Alphabet book, Sligo, May 2002
- Charley Barley and all his Friends, Sligo, Dec 2001
Mary Branley was born in Sligo in 1962. After graduating from St. Patrick's Collage of Education, she taught in Sligo, Boston and London. She completed and MEd in Intercultural Education at Emmanuel College, Boston, in 1992. She co-wrote Silk Kimonos, which was performed in the Factory Performance Space, Sligo, in 1995. After eleven years she returned to Sligo and is a Visiting Teacher for Travellers in the Northwest.
Mary is a writer and intercultural consultant with Kids' Own Publishing Partnership. She works with children as writers and artists in valuing childhood and cultural diversity in a series of 8 workshops to develop books for children by children. More information on the work is available at the Kids' Own website.
Mary has also been running writing workshops for adults in journaling, poetry, and writing for transformation in Sligo, Rathlin Island, Colorado in the last 3 years.
She is a member of Scriobh Literary Festival Committee.
Mary has performed her poetry at the following events and media:
- Yeats Summer School, Sligo, Aug 08.
- Bluestacks Arts Festival, Sept 07.
- Earagail Arts Festival, July 07.
- Barcelona Poesia, May 07.
- Ocean FM, Sligo local radio station, March 07.
- Crested Butte and Gunnison Arts Center, Colorado USA, Aug 06 (readings and workshops).
- Barcelona, April 2005 (9 poems translated into Catalan and Spanish).
- Yeats Summer School, Sligo Aug 2004.
- Errigal Festival, 2003.
- Scriobh Sligo (featured on the Literary Trail on Lyric FM Artzone).
- Green Ink Festival London, Islington's Literary Festival.
Mary has graduated from the St. Patrick's College of Education, Dublin in 1982 as a Batchelor of Education, and in 1992 from the Emmanuel Collage in Boston with a Masters' degree in Education.