She has worked in the formal education sector in Inner City Dublin for 23 years. Prior to this she was a Theatre Director with Passion Machine Theatre Company and a founder member of Pigsback Theatre Company Dublin. In 2003 Máire established a Learning Through Arts Scholarship Programme at Larkin Community College. The programme ran for six years. Students on the programme did their Junior Cycle subjects through the arts. They worked with an artist in residence and arts organisations, in the classroom and in the local community. From 2010 to 2013, students at the College engaged in an intergenerational project with the National Museum of Ireland. See www.ouririshheritage.org/category/test