Mary McAuliffe is an Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at UCD. She holds a PhD from the School of History and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin and lectures on the UCD Gender Studies programmes at University College Dublin. Her latest publications were We were there; 77 women of the Easter Rising (co-written with Liz Gillis) and Kerry 1916; Histories and Legacies of the Easter Rising on which she was co-editor. She was also co-editor of Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland. She was the historical consultant on two major 2016 commemorative projects; Richmond Barracks and the Royal College of Surgeons. She is past President of the Women’s History Association of Ireland (2011-2014) and on the advisory board of the Irish Association of Professional Historians. She is a member of the NXF Board (The National Lesbian and Gay Federation of Ireland) Her latest research includes a forthcoming biography of revolutionary and feminist, Margaret Skinnider (UCD Press, 2019), and a major research project on gendered and sexual violence during the Irish revolutionary period, 1919-1923.