Les femmes et le confit politique nord-irlandais à l’écran : images d’une population exclue ou victime dans le film Maeve ?

• Main Author: Cécile Bazin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines 2014-11-01
• Series: Revue LISA
• Subjects: victim(s); exclusion; Catholic; Republican; woman; Northern Ireland
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/lisa/6892

As changes in Northern Ireland have been reflected in films dealing with the political conflict over the last three decades, women still mostly appear as victims of political violence. While it is very rare to see women’s political involvement in the Northern Irish conflict on screen, Maeve (Pat Murphy, 1981) projects specific images of the Troubles through a feminist meditation on the status of Catholic women coming from a Republican background in Northern Ireland. As the film explores the myth of Mother Ireland, this article analyses the images that tackle the political question linking it to the gendered nature of power and historical discourse.