Máire Delaney (née de Valera, 1945–2002) was an Irish medical doctor in the fields of psychiatry, anatomy and pathology.
Her father, Eamon de Valera Jr., was a professor and consultant gynaecologist at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin.
[1] She married Tom Delaney, an archaeologist specialising in the mediaeval period, and moved to Belfast where he worked at the Ulster Museum.
After working as a psychiatric registrar, her interest in archaeology led her to teaching at UCD followed by a lectureship in anatomy at Trinity College.
The novelist, Erin Hart, based the pathologist character Nora Gavin from her book False Mermaid on Delaney after interviewing her.