As a teenager, she was one of the hosts of BBC Northern Ireland's youth TV series Wise Crack.
[6] Silent Grace, was a prison/hunger strike/women's protest drama starring Brady, Cathleen Bradley, Cara Seymour, Patrick Bergin and Conor Mullen.
[11] The film was positively reviewed by Ronnie Scheib in Variety[12] and by Michael Dwyer in the Irish Times.
[13] Silent Grace is a fictional drama based on real events, covering the largely untold story of Republican women prisoners’ involvement in the Dirty protests and first Hunger Strikes of 1980/1981.
[23] Beyond The Fire, her second feature film, was about love in the wake of sexual assault starring Cara Seymour and Scot Williams.
"[29] There was press controversy about the film in the Irish Independent regarding RTÉ's decision not to acquire it due to the feeling there was "no appetite for the subject matter".
Taking Stock, starring Kelly Brook and Scot Williams, an austerity comedy caper feature was based on Sushi.
[46] It is a novella in four parts about a young Irish woman holed up in a red light area of London who becomes friends with a local prostitute.
"[48] In 2024 Maeve wrote, directed and produced St Pancras Sunrise short film, proof of concept for the feature in development with Screen Ireland based on characters and plot lines from the novella, and is with Tile Media.
It then showed at the Ischia Film Festival with special talk with Maeve and Jim Sheridan one of the executive producers.
[50] The murder of Patsy Malone a Kings Cross sex worker by a police man in 1981 inspired the short film and this was felt to give it a strong resonance with the current conversation around women's safety and the 2021 police officer planned killing of Sarah Everard.
Maeve was on the long list for Best Director for the British short film awards 2024 for St Pancras Sunrise.