Mary Redmond (1863 – 16 January 1930) was an Irish sculptor born in Nenagh, County Tipperary, in 1863, and raised in Ardclough, County Kildare, where her father went to work in the limestone quarries.

[1] She was accepted into the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art where she studied drawing and painting, though she was drawn to working with clay.

[citation needed] Her most famous work, a statue of FatherTheobald Mathew in O'Connell Street, Dublin, was inaugurated in 1893 (or 1891 [2]) (8 February).

She won a contest to create the sculpture, an achievement for a woman artist at the time.

According to Nora J Murray’s article in Capuchin Annual (1932), the male model for the statue took the concept of being plastered a little too far, was dismissed for drunkenness and was later convicted for vandalising her work.