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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

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 9h

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Taoiseach says some climate projects will not be fulfilled because they risk polarising society

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has rowed back on climate change commitments, saying Ireland may not be able fulfil all current initiatives due to the polarising effect it could have on society.

www.independent.ie

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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 11h

BC Ireland is now accepting applications for the Neenan Fellowship in Irish Studies!

Interested scholars should submit all necessary application materials to Professor Mike Cronin by November 17.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 12h

Well we are never going to agree, so ending the thread

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

Ever heard of rehabilitation

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

Delighted to be at the launch of Saothar 50: the journal of the Irish labour history society (ILHS),50 years in publication. A wonderful collection of essays on labour, class,women,etc. excited to see the new exhibit at the ILHS archives-the banner of the Irish Women Workers Union (IWWU) #speirgorm

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 17h

Well this is just jawdropping - have a listen, the smear campaign by FG on Catherine Connolly is really their only tactic. Also has anyone (other than a niece/nephew) ever called Heather Humphreys ‘Auntie Heather’? #speirgorm #aras25

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 22h

Apparently there a credible witness who saw her get off a bus without thanking the bus driver, sometime in 1997!

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 22h

The barrister story is a nothing burger … barristers take all sorts of jobs … and the Syria story has been done over and over - nothing is sticking. I see panic rather than opinion / reportage driving these stories

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 22h

No, I’d agree. But sometimes if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 22h

Next headline in the Irish Times or Irish Independent - shock, horror, Catherine Connelly refuses to share her last rollo.
Notice no real hit pieces on Humphreys and constant, daily sniping at Connolly - almost as if there was an agenda 🤔 #speirgorm #aras25

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

Oh all the dude bro’s think empathy is a weakness don’tcha know!

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 1d

Postdoc in the History of Global North-south Public Health Cooperation
Utrecht University – Department of History and Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV157/p...

Postdoc in the History of Global North-south Public Health Cooperation at Utrecht University

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1d

This is just nasty, and I hope the barrister TDs in other parties call it out.

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Catherine Connolly did ‘all types of work’ as barrister and represented banks during crash

Presidential election candidate says she was ‘obliged as a lawyer to act on behalf of variety of clients’

www.irishtimes.com

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 1d

Paddy Power has paid out early on bets backing Catherine Connolly to become the next President of Ireland.
The election takes place on 24 October but the bookmaker claimed it has 'seen enough' to call it.
http://jrnl.ie/6838922

‘Can’t keepie up’: Paddy Power pays out early on bets for Catherine Connolly to become president

Paddy Power said there is ‘always the Ballon D’Or’ for Connolly if she fails to win the presidential election.

jrnl.ie

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

#stopthegenocide #breakthesiege #globalflotilla Contact the Taoiseach - details below #speirgorm

Poster of kidnapped by IOF - Irish doctor Veronica O’Keane

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

And don’t forget Pee Flynn sneering about her ‘new found interest in her family’.

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

I’d disagree, Catherine Connolly will make an excellent President, much like her three predecessors - all of whom were treated as beyond the pale as candidates by some elements

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

So the least objectionable candidate is a guy who wouldn’t pay back rent and it seems may have broken the landlord registration rules - but I suppose corrupt landlords are a FF model

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 1d

The now deleted video from Heather Humphreys’ team including an image of the Reichstag building in Berlin.

Video focused on how Heather knows the border and the North - and was posted days after she said she doesn’t just go on “day trips”.

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

Surely with a barrister in the family she should have more knowledge of the constitution? Those claiming that Maria Steen being on the ballot would give FF voters a destination for their vote -not all FF voters want to take us back to the 1950s #aras25 #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure

Conservative campaigner missed out on required signatures to make the ballot

www.irishtimes.com

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

Timeline cleanser - having morning coffee and hanging with these fur babies #catsofbluesky

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

Author and TD among five Irish people on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel
#speirgorm #stopthegenocide
jrnl.ie/6838266

Author and TD among five Irish people on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel

There were five Irish citizens aboard boats in the flotilla.

jrnl.ie

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

🙏 for your mentions

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 2d

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

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

Going from liberal hero to liberal pariah! Greta Thunberg has transgressed against the only values the liberal class understands: imperial values. For this they abandoned her www.donotpanic.news/p/the-libera...

The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg

The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by Israel and reportedly maltreated by her Israeli captors after she was kidnapped, along with hundreds of other activists, from Gaza’s territoria...

www.donotpanic.news

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

Not going to happen

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2d

Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure

Conservative campaigner missed out on required signatures to make the ballot

www.irishtimes.com

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 2d

A budget of austerity at a time of plenty.

Increased fees for students, VAT cuts for McDonalds and housing developers.

All while we have record surplus of over €20 Billion.

We need rid of this cruel, uncaring government.

#Budget2025 #KickOutFFFG

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2d

Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure

Conservative campaigner missed out on required signatures to make the ballot

www.irishtimes.com

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 2d

So HH has pissed off Gaelgoirs , #disabled people and it seems dog owners.

www.instagram.com/p/DPeqZFUiCH...

#Áras25 #speirgorm #Aras25

Image from Wag rescue Instagram, Kodi who was a brown pit bull puppy stray who was killed under the xl bully legislation.

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

The policing and surveillance of bodies is certainly reminiscent of the early modern witch hunts