Mary McAuliffe is a historian and Director of the Gender Studies Programme at UCD and holds a PhD from the School of History and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin.

Her latest publications include as co-editor with Miriam Haughton and Emilie Pine, Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries, Commemoration, Gender, and the Postcolonial Carceral State (Manchester University Press, 2021) and as sole author, Margaret Skinnider, a biography (UCD Press, 2020). She is co-editor with Jennifer Redmond of Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland (2nd edition, Indiana Press 2024), as well as We were there, 77 women of the Easter Rising (with Liz Gillis), and Kerry 1916, Histories and Legacies of the Easter Rising on which she was a co-editor.

Throughout the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 she has been conducting extensive research on the experiences of women during the War of Independence and Civil War and is currently completing her book based on that research, Gendered and Sexual Violence in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, 1919-1923 (forthcoming 2024). She is a past President of the Women’s History Association of Ireland and is a member of the Humanities Institute, UCD.

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