Join us for ‘An Evening with St Brigid and Úna Gan A Gúna’ - 7:30pm, 1st February 2024
(Free) tickets here!
We’re so excited to announce our first in-person event in partnership with the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, London! St Brigid’s Day has always been a significant occasion in Ireland’s religious calendar. Now a national holiday, we think St Brigid’s Day is also a great opportunity to celebrate women, their experiences, and oral history interviewing.
On 1st February, to mark the national day of Ireland’s female patron saint, Úna Gan A Gúna will be hosting an evening to celebrate women’s stories, share snippets from the interviews we have deposited in our archive, and imagine an Úna Gan A Gúna interview with St Brigid. So, spend an evening with us at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith to take a look at the woman behind the saint, hear from ‘St Brigid’, and learn more about uncovering women’s stories in the modern day.
Find out more and get your (free) tickets here!
Úna Gan A Gúna brings together different generations of women with Irish connections to share their experiences.
Making time to talk one-to-one, we learn from each other, passing on stories, sharing our experiences - good times and sad times. We make sure Irish women’s stories become part of history.
Our collective is called ‘Úna Gan a Gúna’ after a nonsense song some of us remember singing in secondary school in Cork in 1980: “Tá Úna Gan A Gúna, Tá Séine Gan A Léine”. It meant, as we remember it, “Úna is without her dress, Shane is without his shirt” – do you remember? It comes from a great skit on comhrá and sex education (or not) by Maureen Potter as Sister Gonzago from the late 1970s - you can watch it on YouTube.
