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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

7 months

2024 details: - Portfolio - Insta - BlueSky - TikTok - Discord: All Irish language server - Twitch - unaminh[at]

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

2 years

In 1991, Nóirín from Co. Kerry went to Vietnam to adopt a child. At the time, the small-town discussion would centre on why she, an unmarried woman, would make such a 'strange' decision. But she was courageous. Words cannot describe my love for my mom. Happy Mother's Day❤️❤️❤️

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

Protect him at all costs

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

‘Oh Jesus Christ a chip’ 😂😂😂

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Amazing

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

Thank you, everyone - I am in contact with a Garda Detective at the moment with all the information that I have and will not be commenting further right now. I hope this woman is ok, I am raging for her.

🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

. @gardainfo This woman could have drowned.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

I am HOWLING. They’ve never even been to Ireland!!!

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

. @gardainfo This woman could have drowned.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

2 years

Hi, Irish person here. I know a thing or two about keeping cool in hot weather. Thought I’d share my ancestral wisdom with you.🧵!

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

2 years

We met 11 years ago in DCU and today in London, @paddypoh asked and I said YES 🤭🤭🤭🤭💜💜💜

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

5 years

Why our fadas matter: Craic vs Cráic (anus) Órla vs Orla (vomit) Gráin (hate) vs Gráín (cuddle) Steamar (scrap of) vs Steámar (stale piss) Tonóg (a duck) vs Tónóg (small arsed) Mearaíocht (going crazy) vs méaraíocht (fingering) Anás (poverty) vs Anas (anus) #OurFada

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

I spat out my coffee

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

The Irish Phrase of the Day is: Táim go dubh i gcoinne an chiníochais Meaning: I stand squarely against racism #Fr ásaanLae #Gaeilge

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

I cannot express how furious I am right now. I wish I could find this woman right now. Utter solidarity. Just livid.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

One day after listening to Simon Harris...

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

Someone commented on one of my Irish language videos and I just thought I’d help them a bit. 🥰

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Oct 1st is a very special day because today, @paddypoh and I are officially HOMEOWNERS!! Months of hard work but we are totally over the moon! 🔑 🏡

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

I am proudly Irish AND I am proudly south-east Asian. Weirdly some people don't understand that.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

RTs welcome.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Examples of comments I’ve received on @Twitter

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Today I turn 30! As I reflect on my 20s, one of the most important things I've learned is to truly accept me for me. With that in mind, I’d like to openly say that I am part of the LGBTQIA+ community (I'm B ;)) and have been quietly opening up to ppl in the past few years.🏳️‍🌈

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

5 years

On the left, Dick Spring meeting me in @OMahonysBooks back in the nineties, on the right me signing my book for him last night in @KerryLibrary ! Dick played a very important part in my adoption writing a character reference for my mom! I will never forget his kindness.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

folks, i'm really stressed at the moment and i would greatly appreciate if you could light a candle for me or just even send me some good energy. crying at my desk and I'm feeling really awful.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

It is with great EXCITEMENT that I bring you the incredible news that I have been dying to tell you for months. TODAY, the OFFICIAL Irish translation of @AmongUsGame was launched into the game. It's a MASSIVE win for a minority language and one of many I hope! #Gaeilge

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Growing up adopted by a single Irish woman, my father figure was undoubtedly my Grandad who I miss everyday. Thinking of Pádraig Ó Ciobháin today #FathersDay #L ánanAithreacha

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

Does anyone else think this is a prime opportunity to finally scrap the Leaving Cert in favour of something like continuous assessment?

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

You know you’re Irish when

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

Hi folks. Know this is a very Irish thing but would appreciate a lit candle right now.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Having an argument with my other half where he’s saying you go down to Dublin from Kerry 😡 You go UP to Dublin!

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Hello folks, would greatly appreciate your good wishes this morning. Getting an important letter notorised and another translated; a positive step forward I hope in finding my birth family in Vietnam.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

2 years

I grew up a loved and happy Kerry child, with my Mom and my Grandad. I will never take anything for granted.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

15 years today since my grandad passed away. Fear uasal ⁊ fear mór scléipe ba ea é riamh le Gaelainn álainn ón gcliabhán. I would not love Irish had I not had him in my life.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Lord grant me strength.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

5 years

My Mom buys the @IrishTimes every single day and at the weekend, and this weekend is extra special and she’s extra proud because my book is reviewed within its pages. Thank you so much @EOBroin for this review!

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

7 years

It’s true that we may have different colour skin, different eye shapes, different accents. But #WeAreIrish We are diverse. We are proud.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

Fuck off Adam :)

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

Well, when I saw that @murchadhmor uploaded this, how could I resist 😂

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

Hiya. Noticed an influx of new followers following my tweets. Just so ye know: I’m not an immigrant I’m not ‘new Irish’ I’ve never lived anywhere apart from Ireland

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

It is so disheartening after years of grinding to save, after having the landlord move us out, after spending years living back at home, that after ALL of that: we have a mortgage and desposit ready to go but there aren't houses that we can actually afford due to bidding wars.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

Rapping in Irish is hard ok.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

Don't be like Brad.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

On this day Ireland became a Republic! Happy Republic of Ireland day!

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

go raibh maith agat @Desbishop

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Wow. Just wow. Ryanair condescendingly accusing me of 'virtue signaling' about the Irish language.🙃

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

2 years

Census man came around and I asked for my form in Irish and he got excited and said no problem, he'll come back tomorrow with it! Go diail! :D

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

Don’t tell me to ‘just ignore them’. I have dealt with this my entire life.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Imagine saying this to someone in real life

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

5 years

That’s Italy you absolute tools.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

5 years

Hello! Please don’t refer to all people of colour in Ireland as “New Irish”, some of us have been here all of our lives 😄

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

2 years

#2 Screenshot the temperature and share it with everyone. Again it might not cool you down but you will at least get some sympathy from fellow Irish people (not from those on the continent though)

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

The Vietnamese health department released a music single about the #Coronvirus and I love it?

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

I caved. I did a DNA test. It's being posted abroad tomorrow. As an adopted person it's very hard to know about the corporate and marketing side of DNA databases and resist using them out of principle. At the end of the day, I just want to find my family. Wish me luck.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

How to write an alt-right Irish nationalist profile: Name: 927420942RealIrishpatriot1916 Bio: Celtic. TruthSpeaker. Freethinker. Ireland for the Irish. Not a sheep. Here to bear witness to the declination of the Irish race. Break free of the mind prison [Irish Flag Emoji]

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

2 years

#7 Reminisce about the snow of 2010. That was lovely.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

This Irish grammar book knows

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

5 years

Some words for burds as #Gaeilge because they're much more beautiful in Irish. Wren: Dreoilín Robin: Spideog Raven: Fiach dubh Swallow: Fáinleog Black bird: Lon dubh Guillemot: Foracha Goldfinch: Lasair Choille Seagull: Faoileán Finch: Glasán Chaffinch: Rí Rua

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

It has been SO HARD to keep this secret in, but I am beyond ecstatic and just overwhelmed to be one of the recipients of the Writer Residencies in Cill Rialaig this year. It is just an incredible honour that my proposal was accepted. Mo chroí.

Irish Writers Centre

@IrishWritersCtr

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We are delighted to announce the recipients of our 2020 Cill Rialaig Residencies Niamh Campbell, Úna-Minh Kavanagh, Sree Sen, Damien Hasson, Justine Carbery, Oisín Kearney, and Carrie-Jade Williams will be heading to the beautiful Cill Rialaig in October

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

5 years

‘Put your flags away you’re leaving. Take them with you’. Saváiste @MaireadMcGMEP 💅🏼

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

2 years

Gone 16 years ago today but never forgotten. Mo dhaideo!

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

I will always be worth 100% more to Irish society than racists.

🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

‘Racism doesn’t exist in Ireland’ ‘You’re playing the race card’ ‘Prove it’

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Got my first haircut in about 3 years and I LOVE IT!

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

Today’s phrase of the day is: ní ghlacaimid beag ná mór le ciníochas Meaning: we have zero tolerance for racism #Gaeilge #Fr ásaAnLae

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

If those messages are hard for you to read then imagine how hard is for me to receive these every single day. Don’t even dare tell me to simply block and report when you don’t have a clue how it hurtful it is.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

Yeah but where are you really from?

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

😘

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Family Portrait! Now officially moved into Baile Átha Cliath ✨

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

Hope this helps, Alex. ✨

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

'Éire' ÉIRE

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

5 years

Just to be clear. This is what the Sinn Féin cllr said was 'misinterpreted'.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

If there's anything I've learned during the pandemic it is that we Irish people have no fucking clue what 2 metres actually is.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

This is the very niche mashup that you didn’t know you needed.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Thinking back to that time when this dude wouldn't stop bothering me so I just sent him cat facts

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

1 month

Solidarity with Natasha O'Brien.

Ally Mc Culladgh 🇮🇪 🇲🇲

@culladgh

1 month

Natasha O'Brien she pleaded with Cathal Cortty to stop and he wouldn't, her friend was screaming at him to stop and he wouldn't A passerby had to pull him off her. Solidarity to Natasha.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

2 years

#3 Buy a blow up swimming pool, let the pool go manky and then don’t use it until next year’s Leaving Cert weather.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

My solidarity with @hazechu who was subjected to vile harassment from far right cowards at her own home. Hazel has been subjected to ongoing racism and intimidation since becoming Mayor. This is the reality for women and people of colour in Ireland. It's not a non-issue.

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Cheers from our new home! 🥂

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@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

🌈🌈🌈🥰🥰🥰

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

2 years

#1 Make an Irish salad, it might not cool you down but it will at least remind you of the good old days

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

why on Earth did I vote for the Green Party 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

Mo dhaideo ‘gus mé héinig i gCill Maoilchéadair ag dul trí chró na snáthaide. My grandad and I decades apart going through the eye of the needle at Kilmalkeadar 💚💛

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

5 years

Conor McGregor is a gowl.

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5 years

Unpopular opinion: Irish edition

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

5 years

True story: I learned all the counties in Irish in my Gaelscoil when I was 11. It stuck with me for life. Hence how I'm much faster and able to recite all 32 counties in less than 15 seconds as Gaeilge. #GaeilgegoDeo

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

I’ve been racially targeted by those who often use Irish in their bios but they wouldn’t be able to speak a word of the language. They’re not learners, they’re just racist arseholes

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

3 years

“A lot of people think this is the Eskimo kiss” - this is such a wholesome video which shows the real Inuit kiss called “Kunik” 🥰

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@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

I found myself thinking about this clip today...

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

6 months

"..Ireland has more in common with other colonised countries than it does with imperialist ones. Their inclusion within the hierarchy of race as “white” means Irish ppl can be manipulated emotively to believe that Irishness & whiteness are the same thing"

False prophets are peddling conspiracy theories about Ireland’s history. Here’s the truth | Emma...

From Russell Brand to Steve Bannon, pundits are distorting our past oppression – when it should be a source of solidarity with refugees, says Guardian Europe columnist Emma Dabiri

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🌻 Úna-Minh (is my first name not Úna) Chaomhánach

@unaminhkavanagh

4 years

how people presume Irish names are pronounced