Máire Aoife Comerford (2 June 1893 - 15 December 1982) was an Irish republican from County Wexford who witnessed central events in 1916-23 and remained a committed supporter of Cumann na mBan until her death.

She returned to Gorey after the Rising and joined the local Sinn Féin branch where she worked alongside Sean Etchingham.

[4] She also helped to run the Irish White Cross, led by the Quaker James Douglas, which aimed to assist civilian war victims by raising money in the United States.

The war further split the Sinn Féin movement, and in 1923 Comerford was arrested and held at the women's section of Mountjoy Prison.

Maire Comerford was badly beaten and received stitches to the head, others were subject to beatings and humiliations and some were thrown down flights of stairs.

50 women being held in NDU went on hunger strike protesting their continued imprisonment long after the end of the Irish Civil War.

[8] Following the Civil War, Comerford supported Éamon de Valera and his abstentionist Republican candidates, but split with him (as did Mary MacSwiney) when he entered the Dáil in 1927.

[9] In 1967 Comerford worked on the restoration of the Tailors' Hall in Dublin, which had housed Wolfe Tone's nascent republican parliament in the 1790s, with the Irish Georgian Society.

In later years she felt that Éamon de Valera's suggestion in America in 1919-20 that Ireland's future relationship to Britain would be about the same as that of Cuba to the USA had started the mentality of compromise that had led to the Treaty being signed in 1921.

In the 1970s and up to her death she supported the Provisional Irish Republican Army war in Northern Ireland, in particular its hunger strike campaign.