Catherine Dunne (born 1954) is an Irish author. She was born in Dublin and studied English and Spanish at Trinity College, Dublin, before becoming a teacher.

Dunne is the author of the novels In the Beginning (Jonathan Cape, 1997), A Name for Himself (Jonathan Cape, 1998), The Walled Garden (Pan, 2000), Another Kind of Life (Picador, 2003), Something Like Love (Macmillan, 2006), At a Time Like This (Macmillan, 2007), and the non-fiction book An Unconsidered People: The Irish in Sixties London (New Island, 2003).Read Less