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Professor Mary McAuliffe
Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) have announced that their Department of Humanities will host a free lecture by Professor Mary McAuliffe who is a renowned historian and lecturer of Gender Studies at UCD.
Professor McAuliffe will give the Annual Dorothy Macardle Humanities Lecture on Tuesday 20th February 2.30pm, Whitaker Theatre, DkIT and all are welcome. Her lecture is titled, 'Writing the Women back in? Reflections on Revolutionary Women Histories and the Decade of Centenaries'.
Professor Mary McAuliffe’s most recent publication is an edited collection called The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn: A Life Revealed through Personal Writing (2023) by UCD Press. Her other publications include Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries: Commemoration, Gender, and the Postcolonial Carceral State (2021) (coeditor), Margaret Skinnider (Life and Times Series) (2020), and Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland (2015) (co-editor).
She is a past President of the Women's History Association of Ireland and is a member of the Humanities Institute, UCD. Mary has also been awarded the 2023 FoyJustice Award by UCD LGBTQI+ for her work on the Irish Queer Archive (IQA) and her research on Irish queer histories and sexualities. As well as publications, Professor McAuliffe contributes to documentaries, radio, tv, news media and has an active online presence.
The Annual Dorothy Macardle Humanities Lecture is a tribute to Dorothy Macardle who was born in Dundalk in 1889. Dorothy was a teacher, political activist, successful novelist, playwright, critic, historian and social campaigner for women’s and children’s rights, with a particular interest in refugees.
Each year DkIT bring a leading academic to present a public lecture for students and faculty based on a theme related to Macardle’s many interests but in the general humanities area, with a focus on identity, place and community. This year the Institute is honoured that Professor McAuliffe has agreed to speak.
This event is generously supported by Dundalk Credit Union.
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