Dr Mary McAuliffe
@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
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
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
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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
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
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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
What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights
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
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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
Paris in the sunshine - very grand and very lovely and the Irish embassy is only gorgeous.
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Paris in the sunshine - very grand and very lovely and the Irish embassy is only gorgeous.
Guess where I am this beautiful autumnal morning #academiclife 😁
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Guess where I am this beautiful autumnal morning #academiclife 😁
Reminder - launch of our co-edited book ‘The Civil War in Kerry and Beyond; Histories, memories, and Legacies’
📅 Friday, 21st November
⏲️ 6.00pm
🏦 Kerry County Museum
All welcome. #speirgorm
Available online from Four Courts Press and all good book stores.
www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/t...
📅 Friday, 21st November
⏲️ 6.00pm
🏦 Kerry County Museum
All welcome. #speirgorm
Available online from Four Courts Press and all good book stores.
www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/t...
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Reminder - launch of our co-edited book ‘The Civil War in Kerry and Beyond; Histories, memories, and Legacies’
📅 Friday, 21st November
⏲️ 6.00pm
🏦 Kerry County Museum
All welcome. #speirgorm
Available online from Four Courts Press and all good book stores.
www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/t...
📅 Friday, 21st November
⏲️ 6.00pm
🏦 Kerry County Museum
All welcome. #speirgorm
Available online from Four Courts Press and all good book stores.
www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/t...
I had to give up half way through this raimèis this morning - Maoism/Third worldism infecting the left - our new president is steeped in its rhetoric apparently! I mean is this supposed to be what passes for serious critique in the IT! #speirgorm
November 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I had to give up half way through this raimèis this morning - Maoism/Third worldism infecting the left - our new president is steeped in its rhetoric apparently! I mean is this supposed to be what passes for serious critique in the IT! #speirgorm
To cap a very lovely (despite the weather) day, it’s great to be at the launch of Owen o’Shea’s book ‘From Bullets to Ballots; politics and electioneering in post civil war Kerry, 1923-1933’. Available from @ucdpress.bsky.social 👇🏼#spèirghorm #speirgorm
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November 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
To cap a very lovely (despite the weather) day, it’s great to be at the launch of Owen o’Shea’s book ‘From Bullets to Ballots; politics and electioneering in post civil war Kerry, 1923-1933’. Available from @ucdpress.bsky.social 👇🏼#spèirghorm #speirgorm
www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
It was lovely to be outside Dublin castle this morning watching the preparations, doing a small segment on morning Ireland on the inauguration of President elect Catherine Connolly. The rain even held off for a few minutes. It’s a historic moment -the 10th President and 3rd woman. #speirgorm #aras25
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
It was lovely to be outside Dublin castle this morning watching the preparations, doing a small segment on morning Ireland on the inauguration of President elect Catherine Connolly. The rain even held off for a few minutes. It’s a historic moment -the 10th President and 3rd woman. #speirgorm #aras25
Melting in a very warm O’Reilly hall meeting lots of interested, engaged potential students - doing the needful for our undergraduate degree in Social Justice at the UCD open day. Thousands on campus which is looking really lovely in the autumnal sunshine #ucd #speirgorm
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Melting in a very warm O’Reilly hall meeting lots of interested, engaged potential students - doing the needful for our undergraduate degree in Social Justice at the UCD open day. Thousands on campus which is looking really lovely in the autumnal sunshine #ucd #speirgorm
Did women ruin the workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Did women ruin the workplace?
Bear with me for a moment while I do a feminist rage - liberal feminism has not gone far enough in ‘ruining’ (aka fundamentally transforming) the workplace … & there is no such thing as conservative feminism (call it what it is, anti-feminism) … and that’s my tuppence worth on a Friday morning
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Bear with me for a moment while I do a feminist rage - liberal feminism has not gone far enough in ‘ruining’ (aka fundamentally transforming) the workplace … & there is no such thing as conservative feminism (call it what it is, anti-feminism) … and that’s my tuppence worth on a Friday morning
Arrived in the post this morning - delighted to have published this collection of essays from our 2023 Kerry civil war conference - the decade of centenaries keeps on giving! Available from Four Courts Press www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/t... #history #speirgorm #irishcivilwar
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Arrived in the post this morning - delighted to have published this collection of essays from our 2023 Kerry civil war conference - the decade of centenaries keeps on giving! Available from Four Courts Press www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/t... #history #speirgorm #irishcivilwar
The Civil War in Kerry and Beyond (edited by Bridget McAuliffe, @owenoshea.bsky.social and myself) is back from the printers and will be launched on
📅 Friday 21st November
⏲️ 6.00pm
🏛️ Kerry County Museum
Fáilte roimh chách. All welcome 📚
#history #speirgorm
www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/t...
📅 Friday 21st November
⏲️ 6.00pm
🏛️ Kerry County Museum
Fáilte roimh chách. All welcome 📚
#history #speirgorm
www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/t...
November 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The Civil War in Kerry and Beyond (edited by Bridget McAuliffe, @owenoshea.bsky.social and myself) is back from the printers and will be launched on
📅 Friday 21st November
⏲️ 6.00pm
🏛️ Kerry County Museum
Fáilte roimh chách. All welcome 📚
#history #speirgorm
www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/t...
📅 Friday 21st November
⏲️ 6.00pm
🏛️ Kerry County Museum
Fáilte roimh chách. All welcome 📚
#history #speirgorm
www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/t...
Lovely on this miserable, wet evening to be among feminists at the launch of Íde B O’Carrolls new book, ‘Thirty Years of Change through Women’s Eyes; Ireland 1993-2023 (@corkup.bsky.social) at the @nlireland.bsky.social - another in the series by Íde on irish women in Ireland and America #speirgorm
October 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Lovely on this miserable, wet evening to be among feminists at the launch of Íde B O’Carrolls new book, ‘Thirty Years of Change through Women’s Eyes; Ireland 1993-2023 (@corkup.bsky.social) at the @nlireland.bsky.social - another in the series by Íde on irish women in Ireland and America #speirgorm
Best analysis of the presidential election I’ve seen to date - putting in the hard yards actually works, who knew!. #aras25 #waterfordwhispers #speirgorm
October 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Best analysis of the presidential election I’ve seen to date - putting in the hard yards actually works, who knew!. #aras25 #waterfordwhispers #speirgorm
Lovely surprise received in the post this morning - quite the tome, it’ll keep me buzy for a good while! Lots of readings for my students on issues such as feminist historiography, power, reproduction, class, work, maternity, LGBTI studies and much more #feministstudies #genderstudies #speirgorm
October 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Lovely surprise received in the post this morning - quite the tome, it’ll keep me buzy for a good while! Lots of readings for my students on issues such as feminist historiography, power, reproduction, class, work, maternity, LGBTI studies and much more #feministstudies #genderstudies #speirgorm
Even the Healy Rae machine (they canvassed for Humphreys) is vulnerable to left unity. Final tally in Kerry has Catherine Connolly on 62% #aras25 #speirgorm #ConnollywillbePresident
October 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Even the Healy Rae machine (they canvassed for Humphreys) is vulnerable to left unity. Final tally in Kerry has Catherine Connolly on 62% #aras25 #speirgorm #ConnollywillbePresident
This is the rage of the far right-in a spoiled ballot paper. Complaining about rape while nominating a man found liable for rape.So it’s not about rape at all, it’s about racism and misogyny-& homo/trans phobia in support of she of the holy handbag who is conveniently anti LGBTI - #aras25 #speirgorm
October 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is the rage of the far right-in a spoiled ballot paper. Complaining about rape while nominating a man found liable for rape.So it’s not about rape at all, it’s about racism and misogyny-& homo/trans phobia in support of she of the holy handbag who is conveniently anti LGBTI - #aras25 #speirgorm
October 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
So much here …. But let’s just say the second photo is my grandmothers War of Independence Cumann na mBan medal. I’ll just leave it there #speirgorm
October 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
So much here …. But let’s just say the second photo is my grandmothers War of Independence Cumann na mBan medal. I’ll just leave it there #speirgorm
October 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
October 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM