Úna-Minh Chaomhánach

Úna-Minh Kavanagh (; born 4 July 1991) is an Irish travel writer, journalist, and video game producer.

Biography

Born in Hanoi, Vietnam on 4 July 1991, Úna-Minh Kavanagh was adopted at three days old by Noreen Kavanagh, a primary school teacher from Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. Kavanagh was brought to Ireland at six weeks of age and raised by her mother and grandfather Paddy Kavanagh. She learned Irish as one of her spoken languages. She continued to study Irish in Dublin City University and earned a degree in Irish and journalism.

Kavanagh created a blog about travelling with her mother, and wrote a book about growing up as an Irish-speaking person overcoming loss, and racism, as well as her love of the language.

Today, Kavanagh works as a video game producer, freelance journalist and content creator. She created the website We are Irish which is designed to share good news and stories about Irish people, the country and anything related to either. She has worked on TG4 and with the trade union Fórsa. Her YouTube videos are centred on travel vlogs and gaming videos, both in the Irish language, and were funded through her Patreon account.

In 2020, Kavanagh joined the new independent Anti-Racism Committee. Kavanagh was made a member of the TG4 Audience Council in 2020 and will serve on that group for five years. She was also one of the National Ambassadors for Culture Night (Ireland) in 2020.

In July 2021, Kavanagh worked alongside three other to launch the official Irish-language translation of the online multiplayer video game Among Us. She also created two compilations of resources for learning Irish entitled DIY Gaeilge: 150 Online Irish Language Resources and DIY Gaeilge Part Two: 50 More Irish Language Resources.