Margaret Mac Curtain

Margaret Mac Curtain (1929–2020) was a Dominican sister, Irish historian, writer, and educator.

[2] She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950 from University College Cork (UCC), where she won the Peel Prize and turned down an opportunity to study with J. R. R. Tolkien prior to joining the Dominican Order.

She was awarded the Eire Society of Boston Gold Medal in 1993 for her writings on Irish women's history.

[6] Sr. Mac Curtain was the founding principal and helped establish the Senior College Ballyfermont.

She chaired the National Archives Advisory Council from 1997 to 2002 and contributed to the Treoir 2000 report on the state of the Irish language at the end of the 20th century.