Mother Ireland

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Mother Ireland

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Details

Location

Derry/Londonderry

Year

1988

Date

11 April 1991 (transmission)

Length

51min 48sec

Audio

sound

Format

film

colour

Source

Anne Crilly

Courtesy

Derry Film and Video Collective

Rights Holder

Derry Film and Video Collective

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Description

A documentary looking at the representation of nationalism and feminism.

Notes

A few months after the making of this film Mairead Farrell was shot by the SAS in Gibraltar. For a discussion on Mother Ireland see 'The Feminist Historical and Political Documentary Reconsidered: Anne Crilly's Mother Ireland' in Brian McIlroy, Shooting to Kill - Filmmaking and the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland, Flick Book: England, 1998 pp 126-136.

Shot List

Features interviews with Margaret MacCurtain (Sister Benvenuta) - Historian discusses the symbolic relationship between Ireland and women, Bernadette McAliskey (Devlin), Sighle Humphries, Miriam James, Nell McCafferty - journalist; Stephanie Peppard; Mairead Farrell; Pat Murphy - film maker - director of Anne Devlin.

Credits

Produced by the Derry Film and Video Collective - Anne Crilly, Jim Curran, Stephanie English, Margo Harkin, Tomas MacCoileain, Geraldine McGuiness, Brendan McMenamin

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