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Máire Ní Chathasaigh, born in 1956 in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, is an Irish harpist. She began playing the harp at age eleven and won multiple All-Ireland harp competitions by her late teens. In 1985, she released The New-Strung Harp, the first harp album focused primarily on traditional Irish dance music, marking a significant breakthrough in her career. Ní Chathasaigh's partnership with English guitarist Chris Newman began in 1987 at the Cambridge Folk Festival, leading to extensive tours and several critically-acclaimed albums including The Living Wood (1988), Out of Court (1991), Live in the Highlands (1995). She has also collaborated with her sisters Nollaig Casey and Mairéad Ní Chathasaigh on the album Sibling Revelry (2015) and received the TG4 Gradam Ceoil Ceoltóir na Bliana / Musician of the Year award in 2001.
