Ó Ghlúin Go Glúin

Úna Gan A Gúna is delighted to announce that we are launching ‘Ó Ghlúin Go Glúin’! Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs Emigrant Support Programme, this one-year project will connect young women to their Irish elders to record and preserve their stories.

To bring Irish women together ‘Ó Ghlúin Go Glúin’ (knee to knee, generation to generation), we need our community to share their stories with us! Are you a woman over fifty with connections to Ireland? We want to know about your experiences as a young woman in twentieth century Ireland, or as an Irish emigrant abroad. We want to record the experiences of anyone who identifies as a woman, all ethnicities and cultures, the LGBTQ+ community, all faiths and those of no faith.

Sharing and archiving your stories will ensure that the experiences of women with connections to Ireland are preserved for the historical record, rather than forgotten, and will enable a younger generation of Irish women to benefit from the stories and solidarity of their elders. More information about what’s involved in sharing your story can be found on our FAQ page, and if you’re interested, please fill in the expression of interest form on the FAQ page or email us at interviews@unaganaguna.org

To support this project, we are also recruiting five volunteer regional oral history co-ordinators across Ireland and the UK as well as volunteer interviewers aged between 18 and 30 to record oral histories. In exchange for sharing your skills and time with us, we are providing superb training and support from professional historians and other relevant volunteer professionals.

More detail on the volunteer oral history regional co-ordinator roles can be found here, and if you’re interested, please fill in the expression of interest form on the page! If you’re aged 18-30 and would like to get involved as an interviewer, please fill in the volunteer interviewer form here!