Una Mullally

Una Mullally

Contributor

Una Mullally is a writer and author from Dublin. She has contributed to The Irish Times since 2011. She writes a weekly opinion column on Irish culture, society, and politics, as well as on the arts and other features. She has written extensively on Irish activism and social movements, including on LGBTQ+ rights and women’s reproductive rights, the Irish language revival, the Irish far-right, urbanism in relation to Dublin city, data centres, and the Irish housing crisis.

Background and Career
Una Mullally was born in Dublin and grew up in Deansgrange. She graduated from DCU with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism in 2005. She began her career in music journalism, before becoming a news reporter, feature writer, and columnist for the Sunday Tribune, and later a columnist for The Dubliner magazine. She has written guest essays and opinion columns for the New York Times, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, Granta, and The Stinging Fly. She co-founded The Irish Times Women’s Podcast , and co-created other independent podcast series, including Don’t Stop Repealin’ (tracking the campaign to repeal the Eighth Amendment), United Ireland, and Saving the City (on the issues facing post-pandemic Dublin). She also works across theatre, publishing, sound art, and event curation, and hosted the Irish-language alternative music series Ceol ar an Imeall on TG4.

Books

  • Repeal the 8th (2018) (editor)
  • In The Name of Love: The Movement for Marriage Equality in Ireland: An Oral History (2014)

Awards and Notable Achievements

  • George RR Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop fellow, Medill, Northwestern University (2026)
  • Online News Association Women’s Leadership Accelerator, Los Angeles (2019)
  • Friends of Europe, European Young Leaders programme, Brussels (2019)
  • Praeses Elit Award, Trinity College Dublin Law Society (2016)
  • Artist-in-residence, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2016, 2021)
  • The Irish Gay and Lesbian Awards (Galas) Journalist of the Year (2015)

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Is staraí, scríbhneoir agus láithreoir é, Christopher Kissane. Cuireann sé an tsraith imeachtaí Ireland’s Edge i láthair sa Daingean, mar pháirt den fhéile Other Voices.

‘It’ll be grand’ is not a plan for when the real emergency strikes

Living in a state of constant vigilance is exhausting. We need better leadership

Radie Peat on her first solo album: ‘Singing I don’t think about... it’s a totally emotional thing’

The singer has made her mark with Lankum and Oxn. Her first solo album draws on the same well of traditional music, renewing it as she goes

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Is iad Aurora Divine agus Sparkling Spitfire na léiritheoirí agus na healaíontóirí oirfideacha taobh thiar den Cabáiste Cabaret, ceabairé dátheangach ina mbíonn an ealaín drag, damhsa cuaille, taibheoirí grinn agus tuilleadh lena gcois.

Why does Donald Trump drool over men’s bodies?

Even those utterly opposed to the US president’s politics are subjected to his fawning if they are objectively good-looking

“An rud is tábhachtaí, i mo thuairimse, maidir le forbairt na teanga ná déileáil leis an ghéarchéim thithíochta sna Gaeltachtaí.”

Is file agus scríbhneoir í Róisín Nic Ghearailt, a bhunaigh Salon Rógaire i mBaile Átha Cliath.

An Irish documentary on a relatively obscure American figure can illuminate so much

The success of You Can See Everything shows people are looking for something deeper

An Irish documentary on a relatively obscure American figure can illuminate so much

`Truthfulness is sort of out of fashion’, says Sinéad O’Shea, maker of film about communist activist Fergie Chambers

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Is fuirseoir, aisteoir agus ceoltóir í Síomha Hennessy. Ainmníodh í don ngradam Spirit of Wit ag an Dublin Fringe Festival in 2023 (The Coil’s Lament), agus in 2025 (Building Character). In 2026, chuir sí an seó Gaelmaxxing i láthair ag an bhféile, a ainmníodh don ghradam Bewley’s Cafe Theatre Little Gem.

O’Connell Street was always more than a street. Can it start to live up to its potential?

Halloween would be a good place to begin

“Síleann daoine áirithe go bhfuil litríocht do pháistí simplí, éadrom agus éadomhain. Ní thuigeann siad gurb í an litríocht is tábhachtaí dá bhfuil againn.”

Is scríbhneoir do dhaoine óga í Máire Zepf. I measc a cuid leabhar tá Míp, An Féileacán agus an Rí, Nóiní, an tsraith Rita, agus a leabhar is déanaí, Dearg. Is í a chóirigh Rita don scáileán agus a scríobh an tsraith anime Lí Bán.

No, you don’t need AI to read your child a bedtime story

Sam Altman’s self-satisfaction about utilising an LLM to raise his child wouldn’t even make the top 20 of his all-time nonsense

Fontaines DC: ‘We just hang out with ourselves and don’t really interact as much with other people’

Conor Deegan and Tom Coll on Dopamine Chamber, which the band’s lead singer, Grian Chatten, says needed to be a ‘catastrophic warning’

James O’Neill’s parents meet Minister to discuss circumstances of son’s death and identification

Body found in Phoenix Park in November 2023, but father and mother did not learn of death until over a year later

“Bhíos faoi gheasa ag éisteacht leis na guthanna neamhshaolta sin ag canadh cheol na mara.”

Is amhránaí í Méav Ní Mhaolchatha atá ina ball bunaithe de Celtic Women.

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