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Dr Mary McAuliffe
@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
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Historian, UCD Gender Studies - #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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araireland @araireland.bsky.social · 11h
Today is day 1 of the Explore Your Archive focus week and the theme is #EYAConservation | #EYACaomhnú! We want to see everyone’s archives relating to conservation! Don’t forget to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

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araireland @araireland.bsky.social · 1d
Fantastic night had at the launch of #ExploreYourArchive focus week! Massive thanks to all who joined us 👏

A wonderful lineup of speeches last night from our Campaigns Officer @erinmck96.bsky.social, our Chair @niamhnicharra.bsky.social and our new 2025/26 ambassador @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social

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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 1d
“Up to 41,000 apartments with planning permission lying idle in system”

41,000 ready-to-go on site with full Planning Permission..a fact ignored by those looking to blame Planning system for the housing crisis. The deregulation agenda is strong, don’t be misled www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Up to 41,000 apartments with planning permission lying idle in system
New figures highlight high attrition rate for proposed apartments in Greater Dublin Area
www.irishtimes.com

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 1d
Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies

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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 1d
Our annual Christmas event and AGM is happening on 6 December. Click on link to register.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 1d
Had a wonderful evening with @araireland.bsky.social at the lunch my #exploreyourarchive ambassador role 2025-26. Great chats had about archives and history making with the students on @ucddublin.bsky.social MA Archives & Record Management course. Really looking forward to being the #eya ambassador

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 1d
Yes, Talbot Lane, off Talbot St

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2d
Despite a 16% jump in nitrates levels in Irish rivers in the last year alone, it's looking like the derogation (special dispensation to pollute more) will *still* be extended by another 3 years.

Help farmers financially if needs be, but killing our rivers is just WRONG.
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Nitrates derogation could be extended by three years after proposal backed by European Commission
Too much nitrogen in a river can lead to an over-growth of algae, which causes damage to, and can even kill, wildlife and plants.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d
The wonderful things you see when rambling through the city - ‘a consciousness of their own dignity and worth should be encouraged in women’, Countess Markievicz #speirgorm
Photo of mural a consciousness of their own dignity and worth should be encouraged in women’, Countess Markievicz

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d
I wonder if I could work that into an article about the impacts of the war of independence?

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d
Ah you’d know! Yes

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d
Lovely photo of my mother and her friends - can you guess which one she is! My sister looks more like her than I do, but I do look a bit like her too! #speirgorm
Photo of four young girls

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 3d
Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people? Deeply empathetic essay from Kathy Sheridan. The take of the young girl at the centre of transphobic outrage at a match is a horror story, but this where transphobia takes people! #speirgorm

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Kathy Sheridan: Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people?
Number of trans people in Irish society is tiny – and each one is a human being
www.irishtimes.com

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 3d
Anna Livia Airport - ready made statue to put outside the front door too.
gavreilly.com Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 4d
The Dáil has heard a suggestion that Dublin Airport be named after the former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.

Any counteroffers?

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 3d
Lemass wasn’t the absolute worst (as FF Taoisigh go) but he did introduce the 1935 Conditions of Employment Act which restricted women’s access to the workplace. His biographer says he was sexist & regarded women’s employment as ‘contrary to the Irish way of life’, so that’s a no from me. #speirgorm

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 3d
Maybe we should just import some gallowglasses … again

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 4d
The Dáil has heard a suggestion that Dublin Airport be named after the former Taoiseach Sean Lemass.

Any counteroffers?

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4d
Thanks Niamh. I was honoured to be asked and delighted to be the 2025/26 #exploreyourarchive ambassador

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4d
Every day, 137 women and girls are killed by intimate partners or family members internationally - one death every 10 minutes, according to the UN, who released their annual femicide report today.
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6884469
One woman or girl killed every ten minutes by intimate partners or family members, UN says
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, but according to the UN the number of women and girls killed intentionally remains unchanged.
jrnl.ie

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4d
What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights
Letter from President

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araireland @araireland.bsky.social · 5d
We are thrilled to announce that our 2025/26 #ExploreYourArchive ambassador is @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social, historian, lecturer and Director of Gender Studies @ucdgender.bsky.social.

Mary will be joining us for the launch of the #EYA focus week at the Custom House Visitor Centre this Thursday!

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 5d
Thirty years since the best reaction to losing a referendum was spoken! In 1995 one of No Divorce Campaign leaders Úna Bean Mhic Mhathúna,on leaving the RDS as the 15th amendment to allow divorce was passed,shouted to celebrating pro divorce campaigners,’Go way ye wife swappin' sodomites’!#speirgorm
Úna Bean Mhic Mhathúna

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 5d
Excellent piece by my colleague, Professor Ciara Smyth:

The real migration crisis is not the one you’ve been hearing about – The Irish Times

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: The real migration crisis is not the one you’ve been hearing about
‘Politics of affect’ stokes anxieties about immigration, allowing Government to then respond
www.irishtimes.com

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 6d
Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.

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Dr. Owen O'Shea @owenoshea.bsky.social · 6d
All welcome to the launch of my new book on politics and elections in #Kerry after the Civil War

📆 Friday 28th November
🕙 7.00pm
📖 O'Mahony's Bookshop
🏦 Tralee

@ucdpress.bsky.social

www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 6d
Sad news from Galway:

Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91

www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91
Tributes have been paid in Galway to artist, Aosdána member and peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy, who died on Sunday at the age of 91.
www.independent.ie

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Gráinne Blair @grainneblair.bsky.social · 6d
#Speirgorm R.I.P.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 6d
Report on our launch of the Kerry civil war book held in the museum in Tralee on Friday 21st - flew in from Paris Fri morning, was on time to be there at 6pm until we hit Adare, 40 mins to get through that town 😕Anyway I made it in time to say a few words #speirgorm traleetoday.ie/book-on-civi...
Book On Civil War In Kerry Launched At Kerry County Museum - Tralee Today
THE Civil War in County Kerry and its many impacts and legacies feature in a new book which was launched at the Kerry County Museum in Tralee on Friday evening by Minister Norma Foley. Edited by Bridg...
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 6d
New book review #speirgorm #irishhistory