Bogwoman | |
Director: | Tom Collins |
Producer: | Tom Collins Martha O'Neill |
Starring: | Rachael Dowling Peter Mullan Sean McGinley Noelle Brown |
Music: | Fiachra Trench |
Cinematography: | Peter Robertson |
Editing: | Mary Finlay |
Country: | Ireland |
Language: | English |
Bogwoman is a 1997 drama film directed by Tom Collins and starring Rachael Dowling, Peter Mullan, Sean McGinley, Noelle Brown. It 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.
"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.