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Máire O’Dwyer

Trading as: Perfectly Write Editing & Training

Dún Laoghaire, Dublin

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Professional memberships
  • Association of Freelance Editors, Proofreaders & Indexers of Ireland
  • Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading
  • Plain Language Association International
Educational qualifications
  • Post-graduate Certificate in Cultural Heritage, Carlow College/SETU (2026)
  • Post-graduate Diploma in Computer Science, University College Dublin
  • Solicitor’s Professional Qualification, Law Society of Ireland
  • Post-graduate Diploma in European Law, University College Dublin
  • Bachelor of Civil Law, University College Dublin
Training and professional development
  • Developmental Editing (CIEP, 2025)
  • Efficient Editing (CIEP, 2024)
  • Plain English for Editors (CIEP, 2020)
  • Professional Certificate in elearning Design (Flex Labs, 2020)
  • Advanced PerfectIt (Cadman Training, 2018)
  • Practical Mark-up of PDFs (Society for Editors and Proofreaders, 2017)
  • Business Writing (Plain English Campaign, 2017)
  • Book Jackets and Blurb Writing (Publishing Ireland, 2016)
  • Non-fiction Editing (Publishing Ireland, 2016)
  • Editing in Word (Publishing Training Centre, 2015)
  • Advanced Copy-editing (Publishing Training Centre, 2015)
  • Copy-editing Mentoring Programme (Society for Editors and Proofreaders, 2015)
  • Copy-editing Progress (Society for Editors and Proofreaders, 2014)
  • Copy-editing Introduction (Society for Editors and Proofreaders, 2014)
  • Basic Proofreading by Distance Learning (Publishing Training Centre, 2013)
Languages
  • Irish: intermediate; French: basic
Experience
  • Writer and editor: at Perfectly Write Editing & Training, 2013 to date
  • Software developer: at Ericsson Ireland for 8 years
  • Solicitor: at various legal firms for 8 years
Services offered
  • Writing: writing, copywriting, technical writing, health writing, public sector writing
  • Heritage writing
  • Developmental editing
  • Copyediting: public sector, plain English, legal, technical, academic, etc.
  • Proofreading
  • Style guide creation
  • Training
Media
  • All types of media including books, reports, statistical reports, technical reports, business communications, journal articles, media content, websites. I also write material for heritage projects and trails – interpretive panels, information leaflets, etc.
Subject areas
  • Law
  • European law
  • History
  • Cultural heritage
  • Information technology
  • Plain English
  • Public sector
  • Human rights
  • Humanities
  • Psychology
Clients include

Public sector and universities

  • Council of Europe
  • Carlow County Council
  • Health Service Executive
  • Department of Health
  • Economic and Social Research Institute
  • Higher Education Authority
  • Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
  • Irish Penal Reform Trust
  • Centre for Housing Law, Rights and Policy
  • University of Galway
  • University College Cork
  • University College Dublin

Community and voluntary sector

  • Care Alliance Ireland
  • Trócaire

Publishers

  • Cambridge University Press
  • Macmillan Education
Examples of work undertaken

Writing and copywriting:

  • Video script for University of Galway
  • Health information guides for the Health Service Executive
  • Executive summary of report for government department
  • Marketing copy for University of Galway prospectus
  • Commissioned report for Enterprise Ireland

Developmental editing:

  • Cork University Press title in the MindYourSelf series

Plain English editing:

  • Data protection policies for Trócaire
  • Guides for the Decision Support Service

Public sector copy-editing:

  • Council of Europe: Country report: Turkey
  • School of Law, University of Galway: eConveyancing and Title Registration in Ireland
  • Irish Fiscal Advisory Council: Fiscal Assessment Reports
  • Centre for Housing Law, Rights and Policy: Access to Justice and the ECB
  • Institute of Public Health in Ireland, statistical research report: Longstanding health conditions among three-year-old children in the Republic of Ireland
  • Health Service Executive: multiple reports

Information technology copy-editing/technical quality assurance:

  • Endava: technical and digital due diligence reports

Legal copy-editing:

  • Exploring Equity and Trusts, Pearson Education
  • Constitutional Interpretation in Singapore, Routledge/Taylor & Francis
  • The Law of Duress and Necessity, Routledge
  • Law of Tort, Pearson Education

History/Irish culture copy-editing:

  • Studia Hibernica, Journal of Carnegie/Liverpool University Press

Community and voluntary sector copy-editing:

  • Briefing Paper 2: Public Provision of Home Care in Ireland, Care Alliance Ireland
Testimonials

I’m delighted with Máire’s development editorial services, which I engaged for the book ‘From trauma to resilience’ that I co-authored. Her grasp of the subject matter, her sensitivity to the reader, and her professional approach to copy editing led to a significant improvement. I trusted Máire’s expert advice. Wayne Dignam, author, Trauma to Resilience: Awareness, compassion, and practical skills by Dr Maria Lotty and Wayne Dignam, forthcoming, Cork University Press

Perfectly Write and Máire were a pivotal support to me in the completion of my thesis. I found Perfectly Write to be a professional, speedy, accessible, friendly and exceptionally competent service.  I would highly recommend them to anyone who wants … quality and a team 100% committed to giving you the very best service … Dr Marcella Finnerty, Chief Executive IICP/VCS

We engaged Perfectly Write to work on copy for our prospectuses. Máire really impressed with her professional approach, her enthusiasm and ideas, efficiency, and attention to detail. We were delighted with the results, and look forward to working with PW on future projects. Valerie Leahy, Postgraduate Recruitment Officer, NUI Galway

Extract from the Foreword to my book At the Coalface: A family guide to caring for older people in Ireland:

“Designed to support the hundreds and thousands of people in this country who find themselves in a caring role, At the Coalface is a work of astonishing grace, practicality, professionalism and purpose, containing encyclopaedic information for readers about the realities of the caring role.” Dr Marie Murray, clinical psychologist, systemic psychotherapist and author

Additional information

Publications:

  • Writing for everyone: Plain English and Easy Read, blog of AFEPI Ireland
  • At the Coalface: A Family Guide to Caring for Older People in Ireland, Orpen Press, 2020
  • Capturing and keeping your audience, blog of AFEPI Ireland
  • A short guide to writing inclusively, Care Alliance Exchange, Spring 2020
  • Margaret O’Carroll, Queen of Eile, womensmuseumofireland.ie, 2015
  • Cáin Adomnáin: the Irish “Geneva Convention”, History Ireland, 23(1), pp. 14-17

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