Mary Byrne is an Irish writer living in Montpellier. She has published numerous short stories set in Ireland, Morocco and France. Plugging the Causal Breach (Regal House, 2019) is her debut collection set in France.

She has taught in Ireland, Germany, Morocco and France. She has also directed a health education foundation in Ireland where she was also managing editor of a scientific journal. She holds an MA from UCD, specialising in the work of Lawrence Durrell, with whom she worked on his final book, Caesar’s Vast Ghost (Faber & Faber, 1990). More recently she has translated from French to English and edited critical research books. She now concentrates on writing.