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Dr Mary McAuliffe

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Historian, UCD Gender Studies - ‘woke, leftist academic’. Research-gendered & to sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Ireland 🇮🇪 Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine .. more

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · Sep 16

Talking with Irish historians Jennifer Redmond & Mary McAuliffe about their views on Irish history-writing, their recent work and book and how they first became interested in gender studies #skystorians #irishhistory newbooksnetwork.com/jennifer-red...

Book cover - the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in modern Ireland

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks Niamh. I was honoured to be asked and delighted to be the 2025/26 #exploreyourarchive ambassador

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 14h

Every day, 137 women and girls are killed by intimate partners or family members internationally - one death every 10 minutes, according to the UN, who released their annual femicide report today.
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6884469

One woman or girl killed every ten minutes by intimate partners or family members, UN says

Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, but according to the UN the number of women and girls killed intentionally remains unchanged.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 14h

What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights

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araireland @araireland.bsky.social · 1d

We are thrilled to announce that our 2025/26 #ExploreYourArchive ambassador is @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social, historian, lecturer and Director of Gender Studies @ucdgender.bsky.social.

Mary will be joining us for the launch of the #EYA focus week at the Custom House Visitor Centre this Thursday!

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 1d

Thirty years since the best reaction to losing a referendum was spoken! In 1995 one of No Divorce Campaign leaders Úna Bean Mhic Mhathúna,on leaving the RDS as the 15th amendment to allow divorce was passed,shouted to celebrating pro divorce campaigners,’Go way ye wife swappin' sodomites’!#speirgorm

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent piece by my colleague, Professor Ciara Smyth:

The real migration crisis is not the one you’ve been hearing about – The Irish Times

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Opinion: The real migration crisis is not the one you’ve been hearing about

‘Politics of affect’ stokes anxieties about immigration, allowing Government to then respond

www.irishtimes.com

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.

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Dr. Owen O'Shea @owenoshea.bsky.social · 2d

All welcome to the launch of my new book on politics and elections in #Kerry after the Civil War

📆 Friday 28th November
🕙 7.00pm
📖 O'Mahony's Bookshop
🏦 Tralee

@ucdpress.bsky.social

www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 2d

Sad news from Galway:

Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91

www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...

Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91

Tributes have been paid in Galway to artist, Aosdána member and peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy, who died on Sunday at the age of 91.

www.independent.ie

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Gráinne Blair @grainneblair.bsky.social · 2d

#Speirgorm R.I.P.

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d

Report on our launch of the Kerry civil war book held in the museum in Tralee on Friday 21st - flew in from Paris Fri morning, was on time to be there at 6pm until we hit Adare, 40 mins to get through that town 😕Anyway I made it in time to say a few words #speirgorm traleetoday.ie/book-on-civi...

Book On Civil War In Kerry Launched At Kerry County Museum - Tralee Today

THE Civil War in County Kerry and its many impacts and legacies feature in a new book which was launched at the Kerry County Museum in Tralee on Friday evening by Minister Norma Foley. Edited by Bridg...

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d

New book review #speirgorm #irishhistory

Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to have our next book review up online this morning. Thanks to Berni Dwan for taking the time to review it for us.
womenshistoryassociation.com/book-reviews...

Finding Mary. The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1944. (Maynooth Studies in Local History: Number 172) (Four Courts Press, 2025)

Hands up if you sometimes skip the preface of a book. Well please don’t do that when you read Finding Mary. The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844. The preface to Finding Mary is a fine piec…

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d

Because of course #patriarchy #gebderbias

Social Media Today @socialmediatoday.bsky.social · 4d

Users claim that posts from men get more reach

LinkedIn Denies Gender Bias in Determining Post Reach

Some users have been testing the impact of switching the gender of their LinkedIn profiles.

www.socialmediatoday.com

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d

Mixed marriage propaganda in Cork. Can only assume this is a continued colonisation attempt after the occupation of Beara

Photograph of a handmade piece in a frame in a shop window, showing two socks in Cork and Kerry colours, labelled "Odd Pair", "Perfect Match". Kerrypeople, be on your guard.

#SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to have our next book review up online this morning. Thanks to Berni Dwan for taking the time to review it for us.
womenshistoryassociation.com/book-reviews...

Finding Mary. The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1944. (Maynooth Studies in Local History: Number 172) (Four Courts Press, 2025)

womenshistoryassociation.com

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4d

It’s all about the leaving cert points!!

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4d

That’s how you deal with the Healy Raes - well done Jennifer Whitmore - they do not represent all Kerry people or indeed all rural people! #speirgorm www.facebook.com/share/r/1X32...

Redirecting...

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Social Media Today @socialmediatoday.bsky.social · 4d

Users claim that posts from men get more reach

LinkedIn Denies Gender Bias in Determining Post Reach

Some users have been testing the impact of switching the gender of their LinkedIn profiles.

www.socialmediatoday.com

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4d

So i did this #TedX talk in October in Tralee -a different way of communicating for me- it was a nerve-wracking but fascinating experience, & met some wonderfully diverse speakers on the day. Hope it gets more notice for the Irish 🇮🇪 revolutionary women #tedxtralee #speirgorm youtu.be/FLRIKMiJ5Qc?...

Revolutionary Women | Mary McAuliffe | TEDxTraleeWomen

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 5d

She knows that (a) she would actually have to get off her arse and do the work and (b) she wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning a seat.

She never actually had any notion of being on the Presidential ballot either, but everyone fell for it.

Áras hopeful Maria Steen rules out contesting by-election to fill Paschal Donohoe's seat

Dublin Central by-election expected to take place in late spring next year and likely to be held on same date as by-election in Galway West triggered by Catherine Connolly’s election as president

www.irishexaminer.com

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jenduende @jenduende.bsky.social · 5d

Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

The Pig Is in the White House

This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.

www.theatlantic.com

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 5d

Paris in the sunshine - very grand and very lovely and the Irish embassy is only gorgeous.

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 5d

Guess where I am this beautiful autumnal morning #academiclife 😁

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder - launch of our co-edited book ‘The Civil War in Kerry and Beyond; Histories, memories, and Legacies’

📅 Friday, 21st November
⏲️ 6.00pm
🏦 Kerry County Museum

All welcome. #speirgorm
Available online from Four Courts Press and all good book stores.

www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/t...

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 6d

The Changing Ireland Galleries at the National Museum of Ireland welcome different voices & alternative perspectives into the Museum through co-curated projects, & artistic interventions, including newly commissioned poems by the celebrated Irish poet Paula Meehan.
youtu.be/l-lzMEryNfc

What does Ireland mean to you? The Changing Ireland Galleries are inviting different perspectives

YouTube video by National Museum of Ireland

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 10d

Unlike McWilliams this is actually a good article

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 10d

Jennifer O'Connell: No, Ireland wouldn’t be better off if Denis O’Brien or John Collison were in charge

Why are we so starved of big ideas that it takes an oped or a throwaway remark by a billionaire to start a national conversation?

www.irishtimes.com

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 10d

I had to give up half way through this raimèis this morning - Maoism/Third worldism infecting the left - our new president is steeped in its rhetoric apparently! I mean is this supposed to be what passes for serious critique in the IT! #speirgorm