Mary "May" Cluskey (18 May 1927 – 15 May 1991) was an Irish stage, film and television actress.
(1972) by Francis Harvey, The Gathering (1974) and A Pagan Place (1977) by Edna O'Brien, Katie Roche (1975) by Teresa Deevy,[4] Faustus Kelly (1978), At Swim-Two-Birds (1981)[5] and The Hard Life (1986) by Flann O'Brien, The Hostage (1981) by Brendan Behan, and in works by Oscar Wilde, Richard B. Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, Dion Boucicault, Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Anton Chekhov, W. B. Yeats, George S. Kaufman, John Millington Synge, and Bertolt Brecht.
She also wrote two plays, Mothers (1976, with Tomás Mac Anna; a one-woman show in which she also starred),[9] and Or By Appointment (1986).
[6] Cluskey was also known for the roles she played in films, including Young Cassidy (1965),[10] Ulysses (1967),[11] and The Purple Taxi (1977).
[12] On television she played Queenie Butler in the Irish soap opera Tolka Row,[13] for which she won a Jacob's Award in 1966.