Eamon Delaney is an Irish author and freelance journalist.

Delaney was a student in University College Dublin. On leaving college he became an Irish diplomat. Having left the Irish diplomatic corp, he became a fulltime author. His first novel was The Casting of Mr. O'Shaughnessy. He later published an acclaimed account of his years as a diplomat, called An Accidential Diplomat: My Years in the Irish Foreign Service 1987-1995 (ISBN 1902602390).

He has also worked as a freelance author for a number of publications, with his opinions being sought on matters of protocol.