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Dr Mary McAuliffe

@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social

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

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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.

04.03.2026 20:26 — 👍 94    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 4

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.

04.03.2026 09:01 — 👍 31    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 2

*male

04.03.2026 13:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

04.03.2026 13:07 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Ucd protest

Ucd protest

#westandwithher

04.03.2026 13:04 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Photo of ucd protest

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.

04.03.2026 12:56 — 👍 100    🔁 23    💬 3    📌 1
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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...

04.03.2026 11:41 — 👍 39    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 4
Poster

Poster

Yup! The Trouble with women (book)

04.03.2026 11:13 — 👍 32    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

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

03.03.2026 21:52 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
The moon over Balbriggan harbour and lighthouse.

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

03.03.2026 20:07 — 👍 60    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Just finished my paper today

03.03.2026 20:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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
femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/home/

03.03.2026 19:39 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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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

03.03.2026 12:23 — 👍 10    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

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

03.03.2026 10:25 — 👍 43    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 0
CFPs open for the Gender & Sexuality PGR Conference
12 June 2026, Queen's University Belfast, ‘CRITICAL ENOUGH?
Orientations of Authority and Resistance’ … delighted to be the keynote speaker. Abstracts due by 15 April 2026

CFPs open for the Gender & Sexuality PGR Conference 12 June 2026, Queen's University Belfast, ‘CRITICAL ENOUGH? Orientations of Authority and Resistance’ … delighted to be the keynote speaker. Abstracts due by 15 April 2026

CFPs open for the Gender & Sexuality PGR Conference
12 June 2026, Queen's University Belfast, ‘CRITICAL ENOUGH?
Orientations of Authority and Resistance’ … delighted to be the keynote speaker. Abstracts due by 15 April 2026

03.03.2026 10:15 — 👍 9    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion: A garda sergeant spied on two adult men having sex. But he wasn’t prosecuted - they were Almost 1,000 men were convicted under anti-gay laws, and 1,700 were prosecuted. Their wait for justice is nearly over

A garda sergeant spied on two adult men having sex. But he wasn’t prosecuted. They were

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

02.03.2026 11:53 — 👍 29    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0
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Clodagh Finn: The dung queen of Ireland — and other Irish women alive in the time of Hamnet Voices is using AI and Knowledge Graph technologies to bring together myriad sources so historians and computer scientists can recover the lives of ordinary Irish early modern women

Voices is using AI and Knowledge Graph technologies to bring together myriad sources so historians and computer scientists can recover the lives of ordinary Irish early modern women #irishhistory #skystorians #history www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

02.03.2026 11:20 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

01.03.2026 12:27 — 👍 3454    🔁 1025    💬 33    📌 31

Performative cruelty from Minister O’Callaghan

01.03.2026 16:46 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

Mr Bored of Peace will never get a Nobel Peace Prize now! Taoiseach Micheál Martin cannot now in good conscience hand him that bowl of shamrock - his war planes killed over 100 Iranian schoolgirls yesterday #noshamrockfortrump

01.03.2026 09:54 — 👍 72    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

01.03.2026 03:58 — 👍 18235    🔁 3471    💬 381    📌 172
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Death toll from school bombing in Iran raises to 40 <article data-history-node-id="434310" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-school-bombing-iran-raises-40" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-school-bombing-iran-raises-40" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Death toll from school bombing in Iran raises to 40</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The death toll from an air strike on a girls’ school in Iran has risen to 40, according to Mehr News Agency.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Death toll from school bombing in Iran raises to 40 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-school-bombing-iran-raises-40

28.02.2026 12:06 — 👍 17    🔁 17    💬 4    📌 4

Stove turns out to be hot, toddler declares after sponsored FAFO research yields results. #motherwasright

28.02.2026 02:58 — 👍 218    🔁 25    💬 4    📌 1
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Live updates: US launches ‘massive’ military campaign against Iran Donald Trump says US has begun ‘major combat operations’ in Iran

Anything to distract from the Epstein files. Lots of people will die because of the abusive 💩 in the White Hse. Trump’s America is a danger to the world.
‘US launches ‘massive’ military campaign against Iran’

www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

28.02.2026 10:37 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

*next

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The Cork ladies who left their mark on Irish history Their now forgotten story is told in Mná na Léinte Gorma, a bilingual documentary on TG4.

On nexr wesnesday, TG4, 9.39pm Mná na Léinte Gorma / Women Blueblouses
‘The documentary resists easy judgments, offering a nuanced and critical re-examination of women’s political agency at a moment of profound social change’ . #spéirgorm

www.echolive.ie/corklives/ar...

27.02.2026 17:27 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

As a member of the WHAI, and as someone who was part of the advisory committee who recommended a women’s museum - I am delighted with this response from my WHAI colleagues #womensmuseumireland

27.02.2026 16:34 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

‘Twas a joy to examine this thesis along with @caitbeaumont.bsky.social well done @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social

26.02.2026 21:05 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Congrats to @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social on passing her PhD viva today with aplomb 👏. Brilliant project making significant interventions into how we conceive of veterans & the gendering of that category. & 👏 to her fab supervisor @lloislanel.bsky.social. #Afterlives @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social

26.02.2026 20:22 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Gardaí appeal for help in locating two teenage girls missing from Bere Island Feya McCarthy (13) and Lena McCarthy (15) have been missing since Tuesday.

Gardaí are seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of two teenage girls missing from Bere Island, an island off the Beara Peninsula in Co Cork.

Feya McCarthy (13) and Lena McCarthy (15) have been missing since Tuesday, 24 February. jrnl.ie/6967799

25.02.2026 21:44 — 👍 20    🔁 33    💬 0    📌 4