Mary McCarthy (fiction writer)

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Mary McCarthy (1951-) is an Irish novelist from Glasnevin in Dublin.

She has written four novels Remember Me, And No Bird Sang, Crescendo, Shame the Devil with Poolbeg Press which have sold in total almost 100,000 copies have been collectively translated in to over 5 languages including French and German.

She was part of the growth in contemporary women's Irish fiction which emerged in the 1990s including Patricia Scanlan, Maeve Binchy and Cathy Kelly. Her books were regarded as 'thinking fiction' within the industry, against the grain of holiday novels written by contemporaries. Perhaps as a result, despite receiving favourable reviews from television programmes and book reviews in The Irish Star Newspaper, The Irish Times and The Irish Independent, her novels did not sell in similar numbers. She appeared on TV3 in Ireland as well as other mainstream Irish radio stations.

She is the mother of dance music artist Dara McCarthy also known as aspect musical group.