'Death Reveals Her' - A Lecture by Dr Mary McAuliffe
About this Event
ARA Ireland is pleased to announce the final instalment in our 2025/26 Diversity and Inclusion Lecture Series, entitled: ''Death Reveals Her: Expanding the Archive to use Death Notices, Grave Inscriptions, Wills, and Obituaries to Research Queer Irish Femininities".
This lecture will take place in-person on Thursday, 19 November 2026 @ 17:30 and is generously hosted by the Irish Architectural Archive.
17:00 - Doors
17:30 - Lecture by Dr Mary McAuliffe
18:15 - Break
18:30 - 20:00 - Launch of EYA 2026/27
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Dr Mary McAuliffe is a historian and lecturer in Gender Studies at UCD and holds a PhD from the School of History and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin. Her latest publications include (co-authored with Harriet Wheelock) The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn: A Life Revealed through Personal Writing (UCD Press, 2023) and Margaret Skinnider; a biography (UCD Press, 2020). Other publications include (co-edited with Miriam Haughton and Emilie Pine) Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries: Commemoration, gender, and the Postcolonial Carceral State. She is co-editor with Jennifer Redmond of The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland (Four Courts 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, OUTRAGE: Gendered and Sexual Violence in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, 1919-1923 (forthcoming 2027). She is a past President of the Women’s History Association of Ireland, a member of the Irish Women’s Museum Advocacy Group, and a member of the Humanities Institute, UCD. She was appointed to the Advisory Committee on the Representation of Women and Women’s Stories within the collections of the National Cultural Institutions in March 2024. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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