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Dr Mary McAuliffe
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Historian, feminist, academic (UCD) - #EYA Ambassador 2024-25 / Research-gendered & to sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / 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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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 9h
The UN experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US justice department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs,racism,corruption & extreme misogyny.The crimes,they said, showed a commodification and dehumanisation of women & girls. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts
Independent experts appointed by human rights council speak of ‘grave’ nature regarding scale of atrocities against women and girls
www.theguardian.com

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Éidín Ní Shé @eidin.bsky.social · 23h
Really great to see these types of posts being advertised in Irish Universities- Professor of Social Justice and Democratic Resilience universityvacancies.com/university-l... #AcademicSky
Professor of Social Justice and Democratic Resilience | University Vacancies Ireland
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 1d
tech bros are on about the benefits of AI & how it’ll revolutionise research-so to check it out, I asked it a series of history questions to which I knew the answers? It was a complete mess - anyone using it for research - just don’t! It’s not going to put historians out of business anytime soon 😄 👏🏼

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

Feis Tighe Chomáin (ed Maud Joynt, 1936)
A Middle Irish text from the Finn cycle featuring a nameless figure who changes sex annually, alternating between male and female forms. Part of the queer history display in the UCD library.
Feis Tighe Chomáin (ed Maud Joynt, 1936) A Middle Irish text from the Finn cycle featuring a nameless figure who changes sex annually, alternating between male and female forms. Part of the queer history display in the UCD library.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d
The privileged life and tragic death of an 11-year-old Tipperary girl
Poignant and beautiful story #spéirgorm

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The privileged life and tragic death of an 11-year-old Tipperary girl
Dorothy May Petronell Grubb died of typhoid in 1919. She is memorialised in Tipperary’s Museum of Hidden History
www.irishtimes.com

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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 3d
Maria Steen on RTE radio and Hillary "Andrew Wakefield" Cass* on RTE website is a reminder that forces of hate and oppression need to be constantly defeated...

*Cass report has been so massively shredded by actual science only the ignorant or the malevolent refer to it with any credence

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 3d
Yes class analysis is needed, but central to it all is misogyny … a feminist analysis is an absolute necessity
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d
What do the powerful people named in the Epstein files all have in common?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d
What do the powerful people named in the Epstein files all have in common?

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4d
Children, these were children … use the correct word. 15 year old children
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4d
Host: So when Donald Trump walked in, there were women in there who weren't fully clothed.

Hughes: Correct. Women were not fully clothed when Donald Trump came in.

Host: And some of those women were, what, as young as 15?

Hughes: Yeah, as 15 years old.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4d
View from Elliot’s - finally a coffee and sweet treat in the sunshine

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4d
All these right wing white men concerned about birth rates-look in the mirror & see why women choose not to give birth in the world of inequality you support; a world of virulent misogyny, racism, anti-migrant, anti environmentalism, & hate towards LGBTI kids. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments
Byelection candidate accused of indulging ‘alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need ‘biological reality’ check
www.theguardian.com

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4d
Anyone recognise this colour? And no wet stuff falling! Even if it’s cold it’s great to see the sun ☀️again.
Blue sky over red brick houses

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4d
Host: So when Donald Trump walked in, there were women in there who weren't fully clothed.

Hughes: Correct. Women were not fully clothed when Donald Trump came in.

Host: And some of those women were, what, as young as 15?

Hughes: Yeah, as 15 years old.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4d
Fantastic- love it

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4d
‘Gender studies – brought a critical lens to the biological determinism Trump invokes. And this critical lens extends to revealing how gender hierarchies enable the kind of abuses that some men in Epstein’s circle seemingly believed they had the right to commit’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 5d
When your name is all over the Epstein files, but you don’t want your reputation tarnished by being associated with Glinner
@Glinner Subscribe Alan Dershowitz received the Samizdat Prize alongside me yesterday and he tried to distance himself from my views on stage! Like Ardal O'Hanlon, I asked him what he disagreed with and he spluttered and changed the subject. To be fair to him, I did get the impression he's being bamboozled by his son, who apparently doesn't even think women should have fair sports. Still, a giant of a man in many ways, just not this one.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 5d
So far it’s been the complicit women who have paid the price of association / collaboration with Epstein. Complicit women who support & benefit from the patriarchy should realise they / it will always throw you to the wolves when & if it suits. The men will save themselves #killthepatriarchy
Guardian headline - Top lawyer at Goldman Sachs resigns after revelation of Epstein relationship

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 5d
‘It’s social change, and societies will have changed enough when violence against women ceases to be a pandemic ... Systemic problems require systemic responses, and while I’m all for releasing the Epstein files, I want a broader conversation and deeper change’. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
www.theguardian.com

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 7d
Ah come on David - doesn’t everyone love Sr Michael?
And is it not too much to ask for your and your Iona gang to accept the trauma histories associated with religious orders in Ireland. What they did to women and children is well proven in the historical record. #spéirgorm
Quinn tweet Is it too much to hope that one day public monies will be used to fund something that portrays nuns as a group sympathetically? (Nuns are the only group of women we're allowed to consistently demonise).

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7d
Oh, dear. When careless punctuation reveals the truth.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 8d
Interesting question

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 8d
I can’t get over the number of academics in the files. I don’t know why I expect more from them, knowing as we all do that misogyny is writ large in academia! It’s all so dispiriting … they all (including the complicit women) really hate women and girls, especially those they considered ‘disposable’

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 8d
I’ve been thinking about what drives these men to destroy their life’s work (whether we agree with it or not) and all I can see is - at their core was a virulent misogyny, enveloped in toxic patriarchy and a belief that they were untouchable.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 8d
I’ve seen one or two which is one or two too many. But yeah most are of the woodchipper stance

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 8d
‘The hysteria that has developed about abuse of women’ (Chomsky in an email to Epstein).To all the Chomsky defenders, esp those on the left-this sentence, alone, dripping with misogyny & a sexist dismissal of sexual violence against women condemns him.There is no acceptable apology for this #epstein

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 8d
The documents confirm what many have long assumed: elites live by their own special rules and codes of immunity
The Epstein files reveal that a vast global conspiracy actually exists – sort of
www.theguardian.com

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 8d
chrishedges.substack.com/p/noam-choms... - perfectly put re the explanation / apology from Valéria Chomsky #epstein
He did not hold back... "I know and have long admired Noam. He is, arguably, our greatest and most principled intellectual. I can assure you he is not as passive or gullible as his wife claims. He knew about Epstein's abuse of children. They all knew. And like others in the Epstein orbit, he did not care. From the email correspondence between Epstein and Valéria it appears she particularly enjoyed the privileges that came with being in Epstein's circle, but this does not absolve Noam's acquiescence. Noam, of all people, knows the predatory nature of the ruling class and the cruelty of capitalists, where the vulnerable, especially girls and women, are commodified as objects to be used and exploited. He was not fooled by Epstein. He was seduced. His association with Epstein is a terrible and, to many, unforgivable stain. It irreparably tarnishes his legacy."

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 9d
‘We're seeing eviction rates not seen in Ireland since the 1850s'
- a headline out government should be ashamed off, but do they even care? A reminder - the 1850s was the period during and after the devastation of the Great Famine #spéirgorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
'We're seeing eviction rates not seen in Ireland since the 1850s'
The issuing of 5,000 eviction notices in three months last year is quite revealing when viewed against Ireland's historical record
www.rte.ie

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 10d
“Women’s voices are in hidden places – and they can be extraordinarily strong” indeed, indeed and indeed. www.trinitynews.ie/2026/02/wome...
“Women’s voices are in hidden places – and they can be extraordinarily strong” – Trinity News
In conversation with The Network for the Study of Resilient Women, who seek to uncover and amplify the extraordinary stories of ordinary women.
www.trinitynews.ie

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 10d
Substack is making money from newsletters promoting “virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism”

One, NatSocToday has 2,800 subscribers, charges $80, and describes Hitler as “one of the greatest men of all time”.

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