Mary McAuliffe is an Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at UCD and holds a PhD from the School of History and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin. Her latest publication is a biography of Margaret Skinnider (UCD Press, Irish Life and Times series, late 2019). She is working on a major research project on gendered and sexual violence during the Irish revolutionary period, 1919-1923, to be published in late 2020/early 2021. She is also writing on Kilkenny and the Revolution for the Four Courts Press ‘The Irish Revolution, 1912–23’ County series and is co-editor of Saothar; the Journal of the Irish Labour History Society. She is past President of the Women’s History Association of Ireland 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)