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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 .. 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 · 20m

First time I met Catherine Connolly in person was when she launched a book 👇🏼 I co-edited-from her considered, reflective speech it was obvious she’d read it (nor an easy read)from cover to cover. She stayed on afterwards to celebrate and chat with us - a genuinely lovely, authentic person #speirgorm

Cover of legacies of the Magdalen laundries

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 35m

Never forget and never forgive him for that one

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 37m

Final nail for HH!

Mícheál Lehane @fertha.bsky.social · 1h

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has told Newstalk that he will be supporting Heather Humphreys given that neither himself or Jim Gavin are in the election.

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Nessan Vaughan @nessanvaughan.bsky.social · 43m

Great piece here from @saoirse-b.bsky.social Deserves to be widely read and reflected upon.

Opinion: Rehabilitated offenders should be able to move on with their lives - that includes jobs jrnl.ie/6844173

Opinion: Rehabilitated offenders should be able to move on with their lives - that includes jobs

People who have served their sentence should be able to have equal access to employment, writes Saoirse Brady of the Irish Penal Reform Trust.

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Mícheál Lehane @fertha.bsky.social · 1h

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has told Newstalk that he will be supporting Heather Humphreys given that neither himself or Jim Gavin are in the election.

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Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 2h

Negative campaigning…’try it sometime’! #Áras25

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2h

Well in today’s very welcome news, the calm, unflappable, intelligent, articulate, excellent at keepsie uppies candidate has soared into a commanding lead! Keep it going into the ballot box. #speirgorm #aras25 #connolly4President

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 14h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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

Doing my first ever TEDx talk in tralee as part of Tralee TEDx festival - nerves (maybe! 😬) but also looking forward to it - it’s a family affair as the sisters company, quest and thrive, are running wellness zone part. Tickets if you’re around below #speirgorm www.tedxtralee.com?fbclid=IwdGR...

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 1d

If the State is serious about the Irish language, it's reasonable to expect the President to speak it, write Professor Laura Cahillane and Dr Seán Ó Conaill. jrnl.ie/6841013

Opinion: If the State is serious about the Irish language, it's reasonable to expect the President to speak it

A sincere commitment to the Irish language is essential for the President, write Professor Laura Cahillane and Dr Seán Ó Conaill.

jrnl.ie

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

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

48% of Ireland's waterbodies are so polluted, contaminated with chemicals, choked with algae, deprived of oxygen, lacking in species variety or physically altered and damaged that they fail to meet minimally acceptable standards.

And it's getting worse.
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Half of Ireland’s rivers, lakes and estuaries in unhealthy state as standards slide again

Agriculture, sewage, chemicals and physical damage all threatening nature’s waterways

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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 1d

🗣️ "What I hear is... we’re going to privatise and hive off a part of our energy-generating infrastructure for one industry."

The panel debate the government’s new Private Wires Policy and what it could mean for Ireland’s energy system and consumers.

#TonightVMTV

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

Half of Ireland’s rivers, lakes and estuaries in unhealthy state as standards slide again

Agriculture, sewage, chemicals and physical damage all threatening nature’s waterways

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

Because it’s bouncing her into positions … I’d be the same, was Michael D asked or the two Marys?

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

The minute they choose to support a FG/FF their electoral defeat was sealed despite some good minister- Catherine Martin was a v good Minister for Arts (etc) much better and more innovative then one of her predecessors - Heather Humphreys

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

Oh was he that Limerick politician!

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

Some do, but many, esp a lot of young people, don’t. Personally, I was brought up in the FG tradition, but my hand would wither off if I cast a FG vote now

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

I would read it that she is a reflective politician who won’t be bounced into positions by a hostile media. I also believe she wouldn’t appoint them

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

I don’t think you can someone who deep roots lie in rural Ireland is a ‘visitor’. I happen to live and work in the city but rural Ireland in always home.

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

I believe Connolly offers herself as a reflective, people centred President as have our last three successful presidents. Humphreys would simply be a FG rubber stamp figure head - see Fintan O’Toole today in IT.

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

I don’t see any positive impact on the part of rural Ireland I’m from .. and am in very often. In fact it where this Gov is going to allow the LNG go ahead .. how green is that? But locals want it because it’ll provide employment, which the Gov has failed to do with any feasible substitute industry

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

I agree carbon tax as imposed was unjust-particularly as it was not accompanied by improvements or even implementation of rural public transport-cars are unfortunately essential in rural Ireland because the Gov has not provided otherwise. But they’ll find millions for Adare Manor and the Ryder Cup

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

As a dyed in the wool culchie I resent the implication that I care nothing of rural Ireland - I’m the only one of my family who does not live there and I know, with real clarity, the needs of rural Ireland … which have not been met by any FF/FG government in recent times

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d

Better not to shore up a neo liberal, bro capitalist government that presides over homelessness and rise in poverty and despair, for small infrastructural gains

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d

The greens were in government, they can just say we stand over the nice bits and absolve ourselves of the rest

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely, but it would have been a very long and unwieldy thread if I went into everything -the pathetic response to genocide in Gaza and failure to pass the OTB. The backtracking on any decent response to climate change, touching the forelock, repeatedly and embarrassingly, to Trumps America …etc

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d

Great thread

Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 2d

I remember once talking with a legislative draftsperson who worked at a high level in government who told me that they voted against every constitutional amendment that they drafted. By the same token it is perfectly possible for someone who is ‘pro-European’ (whatever that is)…

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d

It was an honour and privilege to be invited to write the foreword of this wonderful publication from @ucdpress.bsky.social - it details the amazing, and transformative, movement that was #wakingthefeminists

UCD Research @ucdresearch.bsky.social · 2d

🎭New book published by UCD Press goes behind the scenes of the groundbreaking #WakingTheFeminists grassroots movement for gender equality in Irish theatre.

📕WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre (UCD Press, 2025)👇

www.ucd.ie/research/new...

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d

2/ Heather Humphreys to task for being part of a Government which has presided over a worsening housing crisis, a growing homeless, including child homeless, population, a widening chasm between haves and have nots - but then he couldn’t, as he was part of that government until relatively recently

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d

1/ Brian Leddin questions whether Catherine Connolly could park her long held political views and sign legislation which she, as a TD, night have opposed-a question she has answered, which is she’ll do her duty in line with the constitution. At no stage in his article does he take #speirgorm #aras25

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