Housewife of the Year
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Description
HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR
2024/Ireland (77 minutes)
Director: Ciaran Cassidy
Join us as we celebrate St Bridget’s Day (Lá Fhéile Bríde) with a screening of the acclaimed film
HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR, in partnership with the Consulate General of Ireland Boston and Mná Mheiriceá.
A documentary about one of Ireland's most unique cultural events -- the housewife of the year
competition which saw women from around Ireland compete on prime-time television for the title of
Housewife of the Year and the prize of a luxury gas cooker. HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR tells the story of
Ireland’s treatment of women through the prism of a unique, surreal, live televised competition, that
has to be seen to be believed, where a generation of Irish women competed in front of a live audience
for the title of ‘Housewife of the Year’. The former contestants share their direct experiences of
marriage bars, lack of contraception, Magdalene laundries, financial vulnerability, boredom and shame
and of course, of being contestants in the competition. It is a poignant, often hilarious, uplifting story of
a resilient generation of women and how they changed a country.
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Start:
2025-01-31T19:00:00-05:00
End:
2025-01-31T20:30:00-05:00
Category
Film
Tickets
General Admission
15.0
USD
70
