Bogwoman
Bogwoman | |
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Directed by | Tom Collins |
Produced by |
Tom Collins Martha O'Neill |
Written by | Tom Collins |
Starring |
Rachael Dowling Peter Mullan Sean McGinley Noelle Brown |
Music by | Fiachra Trench |
Cinematography | Peter Robertson |
Edited by | Mary Finlay |
Release date |
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Country | Ireland |
Language | Irish |
Bogwoman is a 1997 film that follows the story of Maureen, a woman born in the Boglands of County Donegal who moves across the border to the Bogside to marry a Derry (Northern Ireland) man.
Etymology of title
"Bogwoman" is a play on the term of abuse shouted at a Derry woman by the British Army; the term is a play on the word used to describe those women that live in the IRA stronghold of the Bogside in Derry.
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