Úna Uí Phuirséil (Agnes Hourigan-Purcell) was the 17th president of the Camogie Association.
She played initially for Limerick and won an Ashbourne Cup with University College Dublin alongside another future camogie presidential candidate Inez O’Kelly and an All-Ireland medal with Dublin in 1938 and later wrote on camogie for the Irish Press under her own name and simultaneously under the nom-de-plume "‘Taobh Line"‘ for the Irish independent.
The first Senior National League Final was played and won by a Tipperary team which included as one of its members a future camogie association president Liz Howard.
At the time of her death in 1983 she was treasurer of Árd Chómhairle, vice chair of the All Ireland Colleges Council, and PRO for both Leinster camogie board and Dublin County Camogie Board.
Corn Uí Phuirséil, the colleges trophy, the Féile na nGael camogie trophy and the Purcell Cup awarded for the third level colleges second division competition, are all named in honour of her and her husband.