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Dr Mary McAuliffe

@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social

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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

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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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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 1h

Two Irish novelists have now done more to break the blockade and end man-made famine in Gaza than the entire UK government.

(Naoise Dolan on the flotilla and Sally Rooney with her words and deeds)

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

Author and TD among five Irish people on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel
#speirgorm #stopthegenocide
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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 · 34m

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

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

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 · 2h

🙏 for your mentions

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 6h

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 · 12h

Not going to happen

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13h

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 · 16h

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 · 18h

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

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 21h

Ok I’ll admit it, sometimes Dublin can be lovely #culchieinthecity #viewfromthev39A #baggotstreetbridge

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

I don’t think he’d resign either, he’d disappear into the Áras for seven years … and wouldn’t the Gov be delighted to have a quiet, complacent President.

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

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

*speakers

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

It funny, the gender critical ‘feminists’ really want gender studies to fail-yet year on year we not only have our core students but we have huge numbers of students choosing our modules as their options …the kids are great, challenging and questioning-can’t rest easy on feminist laurels with them 😁

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

Thankfully new head is great, absolutely trans inclusive - has had some great queer history (in its broadest sense) in

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

Media studies should be core for at least some of students time - so they can try make sense of the online world they inhabit
Gender studies is vital to understanding the world,esp considering the misogynistic (and its attendant handmaidens, racism, LGBTIQ phobia etc) backlash we are undergoing

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

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

I know, as ridiculous as wanting to study world religions perhaps!

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

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Somebody sent me this scene shot of an academic in SETU disparaging the academic programmes of another university … not a good look!
But also Gli**er- how can one person be so consistently wrong on everything - we, feminists, are the descendants of the witches, not the witch hunters #speirgorm

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

My sister was just saying that this morning - we do tend to do things for the craic, just to see what happens!

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d

“Fianna Fáil voters have a strong tradition of supporting neutrality. I am asking them for their votes.”

- Catherine Connolly TD
@catherinegalway.bsky.social
#aras25 #Spéirghorm #TripleLock

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

Three of 15 Irish citizens held by Israel after it intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla returned to Dublin Airport before midnight.

Three Irish citizens arrive home after Israeli detention

Three of 15 Irish citizens held by Israel after it intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla returned to Dublin Airport before midnight.

www.rte.ie

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

Oh yeah, the fella - I remember him … many hims!

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

I’ve lost deposits, highly suspected landlord of ‘removing’ some jewellery of mine that went missing, paid money to live in unbelievably bad conditions … this tenants revenge is manna for a lot of us.

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kerryforconnolly.bsky.social @kerryforconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Vote for Catherine! Vote for equality, vote for honesty, vote for consistency.

Raise your voice, use your vote!

#KerryForConnolly #Áras25

#ConnollyForPresident

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

Back to the actual and current Presidential candidates -with all the Jim Gavin shenanigans of the last 24 hours it may have not grabbed people’s attention that Heather Humphreys just threw trans people under the bus in response to a Grift dot ie reporters question!So there’s that! #aras25 #speirgorm

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