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Mary McAuliffe is a historian and Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at UCD. She recently published a biography of the Scottish-born Irish revolutionary and feminist, Margaret Skinnider (UCD Press, 2020), and is currently researching and writing on gendered and sexual violence during the Irish revolutionary period, to be published in 2022.