Dr Mary McAuliffe

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Grief, anger and lack of trust expressed in community meetings on Nature Restoration Plan Plan must have clear and enforceable targets, says advisory committee

The vast majority of the Irish public feel distress, sadness, anger, grief, fear, despair, guilt, frustration, and worry at nature loss and environmental decline.

Why is this never reflected in actual government policy???
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@news.rte.ie Ireland is hosting a dedicated pavilion at one of the world's most significant property conferences this week, on the French Riviera, as part of an effort to attract billions of euro in foreign investment into our housing system

The Irish government will do absolutely anything, including inviting in more absentee landlords, in order to avoid having to do something about the housing crisis. It’s not foreign investment, it’s international financial feudalism.

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How has it come to this - a lunatic is governing a nuclear armed superpower and threatening half the world from the tastelessly decorated ‘golden’ ballroom of his golf club … threats of bombs or tariffs or bombs & tariffs come between rounds of golf. What a mad world we live in!! #noshamrockfortrump

Anatomy of a X/Twitter social media frenzy. One infulencer posted incessantly about the "Dublin Zoo Scandal" on Friday, it was picked up by other bad faith actors who ran with it. This is manufactured outrage by people who literally do not have anything better to do with their time than promote hate

Lovely to meet you there

President Catherine Connolly has warned the catastrophic consequences of violating the UN Charter cannot be ignored.

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Middle East conflict is 'assault on international law' President Catherine Connolly has described the situation in the Middle East as a "deliberate assault on international law".

President Catherine Connolly has described the situation in the Middle East as a "deliberate assault on international law".

Women's Grassroots Activism - Toolkit 100+ Launch (IWD 2026) Launch of the 100+ Toolkit for Women's Grassroots Activism. A 2026 IWD Event hosted by London South Bank University.

To mark #IWD2026 #RightsJusticeAction we launch @ukri.org #AHRC funded project #womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ toolkit. Join us:
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏰ 5.30pm-7pm (UK time via Zoom)
& find out more here: learn.lsbu.ac.uk/womens-grass... #WomensHistoryMonth Please re-post 🙏 #RightsJusticeAction

Femmes combattantes en France, Grande-Bretagne et Irlande dans la première moitié du XX° siècle

Mary MCAULIFFE (University College Dublin, Ireland): 'It changed the course of my life and left me drifting penniless and broken in spirit'; the afterlives of female anti-treaty militants imprisoned during the Irish civil war, 1922-1923. Leeann LANE (Dublin City University, Ireland): Cork Afterlives: Single Women and the New Irish State. Caitríona BEAUMONT (London South Bank University, GB). A fury and a 'die-hard' or an active citizen? Claiming citizenship in the wake of the Irish revolution and civil war.

Enroute back from an excellent conference on ‘Women in War in Britain, France and Ireland ’ at the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, in Boulonge Sur Mer’. Really excellent, thought provoking papers and great camarderie hanging with my sister historians - a lovely way to spend #IWD2026

Happy international women’s day to all

Happy international women’s day to all - especially my feminist comrades still fighting the good fight. #internationalwomensday2026

Women's Grassroots Activism Toolkit 100+ Helping to enhance the lives of women and girls for another 100+ years

On eve of #IWD2026 am delighted to share project webpage for #womensgrassrootsactivism & link to download #Activism100+ Toolkit ahead of launch on Tuesday 10 March, 5.30pm via Zoom. Take a look to find out more. @whaireland.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
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Taoiseach Michel Martin statement on Lebanon I strongly condemn the reckless strike on a UNIFIL base in southern Lebanon that has left a number of Ghanaian peacekeepers seriously injured. The role of peacekeepers is sacrosanct, and all should go above and beyond to prevent them from coming into harm's way. I would like to pay tribute to the courage, resilience, and professionalism of the Irish peacekeepers who came to the aid of their Ghanaian colleagues today. I have been briefed on the latest situation, and all Irish personnel serving in Lebanon remain safe and accounted for. Michel Martin Taoiseach na hÉireann

Who I wonder launched this ‘reckless strike’ against UNIFIL peacekeepers, because this statement would seem to indicate it came from an unknown source or is a known ‘unknown’, eh!! Someone should really inform the Taoiseach! #nameandshame #weallknowwhodidit

The Irish government will prevaricate about this until after the big shindig in the White House, debasing our country and degrading international law so they can "fumble in a greasy till" in Washington. Sickening stuff.

I know, not a soggy sandwich or bourbon cream in sight. The conference dinner was a six course gastronomic delight. And the conference papers were an archives, memory, history and intellectual delight. All in all, 10/10

The Explore Your Archive theme for Márta | March is #EYAFiadhúlra | #EYAWildlife

Get involved and remember to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

Select tickets – Cnámha aduaine bíoblóra: Cnámh de chuid Thady Connellan i mbailiúchán an Acadaimh  – Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 Cnámha aduaine bíoblóra: Cnámh de chuid Thady Connellan i mbailiúchán an Acadaimh  – Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Thu 5 Mar 2026 - Sa bhliain 2025 bronnadh cnámh de chuid an 19ú cé...

In 2025, the Academy Library was gifted a 19th-century bone with an inscription in Irish. Thady Connellan (Tadhg Ó Coinnialláin, c.1780–1854), a bibliographer and schoolmaster from Sligo, made this and various inscriptions on other bones.

Sánchez speaking with moral clarity and courage. Even Macron and Mark Carney have now acknowledge the attacks were in breach of international law. Crickets from the Irish government for whom, it seems, the rhetorical commitment to the rules based order doesn't apply to the United States. Shameful.

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Great to see some many make staff and students there - it’s not just a women’s issue.

Ucd protest

#westandwithher

Photo of ucd protest

Probably the largest protest I’ve seen in UCD - in solidarity with the UCD medical student who suffered horrific #GBV I’m proud to see so many of my students here.

High Court orders Martina and Ammi Burke to be jailed for two weeks each for contempt of court The pair faced contempt charges for interrupting a High Court hearing last month.

Mammy and Ammi joining Enoch in jail!! www.thejournal.ie/martina-burk...

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Yup! The Trouble with women (book)

Looking forward to this ‘Women in War’ conference and participating on the panel with my colleagues @caitbeaumont.bsky.social and @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social

The moon over Balbriggan harbour and lighthouse.

Photo taken while waiting on the train to Dublin in Balbriggan station. The moon over Balbriggan harbour and lighthouse. Photo doesn’t do it justice but it was just gorgeous

Just finished my paper today

All set for France and Boulogne-sur-Mer tomorrow for the 'Women in War' conference. Looking forward to hearing all the great papers & to our panel on Irish #Afterlives with @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & @lloislanel.bsky.social. @whaireland.bsky.social
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Women's Grassroots Activism - Toolkit 100+ Launch (IWD 2026) Launch of the 100+ Toolkit for Women's Grassroots Activism. A 2026 IWD Event hosted by London South Bank University.

📢 Just one week to go now to launch of our #Womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit to celebrate #IWD2026 & #womenshistorymonth📢.
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏰ 5.30pm -7pm (via Zoom)
We still have some spaces left so come & join us by registering 👇. @womenshistnet.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social

Want some pictures from a weird woman to decorate your walls as the Forever War rages outside? Look no further!