Researching marginalized histories of gender and sexualities

Dr. McAuliffe will discuss how we need to move beyond traditional history methodologies to research gender, LGBT and trauma (especially women’s trauma) histories – using gendered and sexual violence during the war of independence as a case study.

Mary McAuliffe is Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Gender Studies at UCD, specialising in Irish women's / gender history. She completed her BA (Hons) and PhD at the School of History and Humanities, Trinity College, Dublin (TCD). She is the co-author on 'We were There; 77 Women of the Easter Rising' (Four Courts, 2016) and co-editor of 'Kerry 1916; Histories and Legacies of the Easter Rising' (IHP, 2016) and has aspects of Irish women's history, on gender and war, memory and history, oral history, social and political history, public history. Other publications include 'Surgeons and Insurgents; RCSI and 1916', and 'Irish Homes and Irish Hearts' (Fanny Taylor, 1867) -edited and introduced (UCD Press Classic series, 2013). She co-edited the 'Palgrave Advances in Irish History' (2010) and she published a biography on 'Senator Kathleen Browne 1876-1943' (2009). 'Richmond Barracks 1916: We were There, 77 Women of the Easter Rising' was chosen by Dublin Public Libraries as its book of the 2016 commemoration of the 1916 Rising. She is currently working on a biography of Margaret Skinnider, 1916 rebel, Cumann na mBan member, trade union and women's rights activist, to be published by UCD Press in 2018/19. Her ongoing project is on gendered and sexual violence during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, and that will be published in 2020.

Click here for Dr. McAuliffe’s full bio https://people.ucd.ie/mary.mcaulif

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