She is a historian and lecturer at University College, Dublin (UCD) Gender Studies, specialising in gender histories, histories of women, war and violence and the histories of Irish sexualities, and she has published widely in these areas. Her most recent publication is a co-authored book, with Harriet Wheelock, The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn: A Life Revealed through Personal Writing (2023). 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.
McAuliffe, M. (2020). Margaret Skinnider. UCD Press.
McAuliffe, M., & Pine, E. (Eds.). (2021). Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries: Commemoration, gender and the post-carceral state. Manchester University Press.
McAuliffe, M. (2023). The treatment of militant anti-Treaty women in Kerry by the National Army during the Irish Civil War. Éire-Ireland, 58(3-4), 72–100. https://doi.org/10.1353/EIR.2023.A910480
McAuliffe, M. (2023, June 21). Who were Ireland's queer revolutionaries? RTÉ Brainstorm.
McAuliffe, M. (2022). “A women's doom”: Class and gendered violence during the War of Independence. Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 11, 83–97.
McAuliffe, M., McGarry, F., & Dybris McQuaid, S. (2022). Commemorating women’s histories during the Irish Decade of Centenaries. Éire-Ireland, 57(1–2), 237–259.
McAuliffe, M. (2022). ‘Opening Pandora’s box’: The Anti-Amendment Campaign, 1979–1983. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 6(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.20897/FEMENC/11747
Hill, S., Hoover, S., McAuliffe, M., & others. (2022). Special issue on Repealing the 8th: Irish reproductive activism. Feminist Encounters, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.20897/FEMENC/11746
McAuliffe, M. (2021). Margaret Skinnider – Scottish-born Irish radical. Scottish Labour History, 56, 106–126.
McAuliffe, M. (2021). “Enthusiasts to destroy the Treaty”? Women’s responses to the Anglo-Irish Treaty. History Ireland, Special Issue, 14–17.
McAuliffe, M., & Rigney, P. (Eds.). (2021). Saothar, 46(1), 1–208.
FitzGerald, T. E. (2021). Maud Gonne. By Trish Ferguson (2020). Margaret Skinnider. By Mary McAuliffe (2020). Irish Historical Studies, 45(167), 140–143. https://doi.org/10.1017/IHS.2021.11
McAuliffe, M. (2020). Labour and class history in Ireland: A vision for the future. Scottish Labour History, 55, 238–247.
McAuliffe, M. (2018). Cumann na mBan in Kerry, 1919–1922: History and memory. The Old Kerry Journal, 5, 68–76.
McAuliffe, M., & Marie, O. (Eds.). (2018). Women voted early and in large numbers: Irish women, activism and the 1918 General Election. The Kerry Magazine, 29, 29–32.
Quilty, A., Barry, U., & McAuliffe, M. (2016). Complex contexts: Women's community education in Ireland. The Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education.
McAuliffe, M. (2016). ‘From Inghinidhe na hÉireann to the Irish Citizen Army: Women, radical politics and the 1916 Rising’. Saothar, 41.
McAuliffe, M. (2014). O’Connor Kerry of Carrigafoyle: History and memory in Iraghticonor. Béaloideas, 82, 100–115.
McAuliffe, M. (2012). Book review: Matters of deceit. Béaloideas, 80, 73–75.
McAuliffe, M. (2011). The Irish Woman Worker and the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936: Responses from the Women Senators. Saorstat, 36, 37–48.
McAuliffe, M. (2009). Review of Improving Ireland: Protectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641–1786. The Irish Literary Supplement, 29(1), 8–9.
McAuliffe, M. (2008). Review of Art and devotion in the Middle Ages, Rachel Moss et al. (Eds.). Artefact, 1(12), 120–122.