Bogwoman is a 1997 Irish 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.
Etymology of title "Bogwoman" is a play on a term of abuse shouted at a Derry woman by the British Army; The word has been used to describe women that live in the Provisional Irish Republican Army stronghold of the Bogside in Derry.
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