Canon Joseph Guinan (1863–1932) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest, teacher and novelist.

He served as a curate in Liverpool,[3] returning to Ireland to teach English, Religion and Mathematics in St. Mel's College.

Due to ill health he left teaching, and he was appointed parish priest of Bornacoola, County Leitrim, in 1910.

He contributed the article on Henry Essex Edgeworth to the Catholic Encyclopedia.

[2] While in Dromod, County Longford in 1920 he was made a Canon of the Catholic Church.