Bogwoman

Bogwoman
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 dates
  • 13 June 1997 (1997-06-13) (Germany)
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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