Latter-day Mother Irelands: The Role of Women in Michael Collins and The Wind that Shakes the Barley

Despite the experimental and subversive work of Irish feminist filmmakers such as Pat Murphy and Margo Harkin in the 1980s, as Gerardine Meaney has contended, “the image of woman as Ireland, Ireland as woman, remains powerful and pervasive in the new Irish cinema” (1998: 250). The cinematic conventi...

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Main Author: Pilar Villar-Argáiz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses 2007-03-01
Series:Estudios Irlandeses
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Online Access:http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MotherIrelandsPilarVillar.pdf