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Film: Housewife of the Year
March 6 @ 20:00 - 21:30
€9.00
Housewife of the Year
Irish, 2024, 90 mins, Cert PG
Director: Ciaran Cassidy
Former contestants of the Housewife of the Year competition tell the story of a resilient generation of women, and how they changed a country. Winner of Best Irish Feature Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh 2024.
Between 1969 and 1995, women all over Ireland competed to win the Housewife of the Year, a competition celebrating “cookery, nurturing, and basic household management skills”. Broadcast on RTÉ from 1982, the programmes featured not just the competition itself but also footage of the contestants at home – creating a vivid, nationwide tapestry of ordinary lives. Here, former contestants share our bewilderment at their acceptance of societal strictures and recount their experiences of marriage bars, contraception, Magdalene institutions, financial vulnerability, marital breakdown, and shame. The film is a poignant, often hilarious, and uplifting story of a generation of resilient women and a country in transition.