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Bogwoman. Acclaimed documentarist Tom Collins makes his feature debut with this powerful and moving portrait of two decades in the life of Maureen (Rachel Dowling), an Irish woman who journeys from innocence through experience and adversity to finally take her place behind the barricades as the Civil Rights movement explodes and the British ...
Jul 27, 1997 · Acclaimed Irish documentarian Tom Collins makes his feature directorial debut with "Bogwoman," a well-intentioned, intermittently powerful portrait of the political awakening of an Irish woman in ...
1h 20m. TCM Emails. Sign Up. Set in 1958, the story follows Maureen who has just crossed the Irish border into the Bogside of Derry in Northern Ireland to set up a new life for herself and her fatherless son. She soon meets and marries a young man named Barry but is soon trapped by his conservative ideas about women and...
- Tom Collins
- Rachael Dowling
Bogwoman Released Jun 13, 1997 1h 20m Drama List Reviews Seeking a father (Peter Mullan) for her son, a woman (Rachael Dowling) moves to Northern Ireland, weds and develops a political conscience.
- Drama
- Rachael Dowling
- Tom Collins
Bogwoman charts the experiences of a woman who moves to the city from Donegal in 1958. Down the years she copes with various personal and familiy pressures against the background of the emerging civil unrest and the redeployment of British troops into the area. Tommy Collins. Director. Tom Collins.
Synopsis by Sandra Brennan. Set in 1958, this drama chronicles the raising of an Irish housewife's socio-political consciousness over a ten year period. Desiring a better life for her son, the unmarried Maureen crosses the border into Northern Ireland to live in the town of Bogside in Derry.
Bogwoman is the tragicomic story of three women. The story is based on research from Derry women who lived through the '60s and it follows the lead character Maureen as she moves from the Bogs of Donegal to the Bogside of Derry. The film focuses on how this naive country woman forges a life in her new community to which she has come to ...
