Herminie Templeton Kavanagh (6 May 1861[1][2] – 30 October 1933)[3] was an Irish writer, most known for her short stories.

Born Minnie Allen McGibney at the British army barracks in Aldershot, England, on 6 May 1861, she was the second of seven children born to Major George McGibney from Templemichael, County Longford, Ireland, and Caroline Allen from Coventry, England.

By 1880 Minnie lived in Manhattan with her widowed mother and six siblings and worked as a sales clerk.

[a] She and Judge Kavanagh lived together in Chicago and Ocean Grove, New Jersey.

In 1959, Walt Disney released a film based on these two books, called Darby O'Gill and the Little People.