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Dr Mary McAuliffe
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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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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4h
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 · 21h
‘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 · 2d
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 · 2d
Oh, dear. When careless punctuation reveals the truth.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 3d
Interesting question

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
‘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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 4d
‘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 · 5d
“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 · 5d
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”.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
Pictured is a blurred, pixelated image featuring a man with an open mouth, overlaid with a "Subscribe" prompt. Headline discusses Substack profiting from Nazi newsletters, suggesting controversy and concern.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 5d
My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics

www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...
Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation
Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics
www.hauntologies.net

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 6d
‘The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not’. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club
Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services
www.theguardian.com

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 6d
Ah forgot about that

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 6d
What institute?

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 6d
Calls for UCD to revoke award given to Noam Chomsky over Epstein links #spéirgorm jrnl.ie/6949693
Calls for UCD to revoke award given to Noam Chomsky over Epstein links
The latest documents appear to shed new light on the relationship between the pair.
jrnl.ie

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 7d
Lovely coffee and prep revision for my conversation this morning with TUD drama students who are working on a piece on anti treaty Cumann na mBan women in the North Dublin Union in 1923. Of course the NDU building is now part of the lovey Grangegorman campus #spéirgorm
Papers and coffee

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 8d
Mr B Ahern is now defending George Mitchell - what’s the matter with a few emails eh! I really can’t understand how those named & those defending them can said they didn’t know or see - Epstein was a sexual predator hiding in plain sight! Men, look at the emails & believe the victims. #epstein

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 8d
Happy Birthday to suffragist and Irish revolutionary Constance Markievicz, depicted on this postcard as Joan of Arc. Did you know we have two collections with records documenting Markievicz?'s life?

See more here: findingaids.bc.edu/agents/peopl...

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Portrait of Constance Markievicz dressed as Joan of Arc

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 9d
The follow up is vital but rarely happens, especially when he goes off on a rant. It is noticeable how awful he is to women journalists or opposition politicians - using words like ‘nasty’, ‘low IQ’ etc. the man has no redeeming features at all, how did millions, including women, vote for him?

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 9d
Toxic patriarchy in action-questioned by a female reporter about the Epstein releases,Trump gets nasty because she’s not smiling. Powerful men want smiling acquiescence from women-complicit women give it unfortunately. Good on this journalist that she does not! #dontsmileforthepatriarchy #spéirgorm
Irish times headline ‘Trump scolds CNN reporter for not smiling as she asks about Epstein abuse survivors’

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10d
The Paris Prosecutor's office announced they are leaving X by stating they raided their offices.

What a way to leave X.
Screenshot of an X (Twitter) post from “Parquet de Paris.” The post text says that a search is being carried out at X’s French premises by the Paris public prosecutor’s cybercrime unit with CyberGEND and Europol, as part of an investigation opened in January 2025, and that the prosecutor’s office is leaving X. Below the text is an image of a bright yellow armband or banner with black lettering reading “PARQUET de PARIS – JUSTICE.”

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 10d
1. People don’t ‘bin-dip’ unless they have to.
2. The Deposit Return Scheme/Consumer Tax made a pre-tax surplus of €51m last year. Get them to pay for street cleaning.
3. My preferred option is to make Eamon - I destroyed the Irish Green Party - Ryan clean the streets everyday with a toothbrush.
Bin 'scavengers' in search of Return bottles are leaving Dublin like a bomb site', says council chief Richard Shakespeare

Reposted by Joanna L. Grossman

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 11d
Judith Butler warns world is ‘witnessing restoration of patriarchy and racism
www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/01/j...
Philosopher Judith Butler issues stark warning to the world
Feminist philosopher and gender studies scholar Judith Butler has made a stark warning about the future of the world at an event in Spain.
www.thepinknews.com

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 12d
from his 1989 collection ‘Love of Ireland - Poems from the Irish’. ‘Saint Brigid’s Prayer’, trans Brendan Kennelly #BrigidsDay
‘I’d sit with the men, the women and God,
There by the lake of beer,
We’d be drinking good health forever
And every drop would be a prayer’.
#irishpoetry #spéirgorm
I'd like to give a lake of beer to God. I'd love the Heavenly Host to be tippling there For all eternity. I'd love the men of Heaven to live with me, To dance and sing. If they wanted, l'd put at their disposal Vats of suffering. White cups of love l'd give them With a heart and a half; Sweet pitchers of mercy I'd offer To every man. I'd make Heaven a cheerful spot Because the happy heart is true. I'd make the men contented for their own sake. I'd like Jesus to love me too. I'd like the people of Heaven to gather From all the parishes around. I'd give a special welcome to the women, The three Marys of great renown. I'd sit with the men, the women and God There by the lake of beer. We'd be drinking good health forever And every drop would be a prayer

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 12d
Gas that all the right wing culture war bully bros-P Tóibín, D Quinn, P O’Gorman are having hissy fits over Imbolc, Goddess Bride, Brigid … according to them real Irish celebrate only the sanitised, domesticated version of St Bridget -have they nothing better to be doing with themselves? #spéirgorm