Mary Frances McDonald (aka Mamo McDonald, 1929 – 17 June 2021) was an Irish feminist. Born Mary Frances Bowen in Tuam, County Galway, she joined the Irish Countrywomen's Association while living in Croom, County Limerick c.1947. She married Eugene McDonald in 1950, and was therefore required by law to leave her job at a bank. He died in 1979. McDonald had eleven children. She described in an interview that "I didn’t start out as a feminist. It was life that made a feminist of me." In 2012, she stated her belief that the most life-changing invention for women is the washing machine.