Women in the Irish Film Industry

Book excerpt: Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene: Women in the Irish film industry -- Susan Liddy -- Revisiting the Past -- Ellen O'Mara Sullivan and Her Role in Early Irish Cinema -- Díóg O'connell -- Feminist Reclamation Politics: Reclaiming Maeve (1981) and Mother Ireland (1988) -- Sarah Edge -- Practitioners and Production Culture -- 'Where Are the Women?' Exploring perceptions of a gender order in the Irish film industry -- Susan Liddy -- Irish Production Cultures and Women Filmmakers: Nicky Gogan -- Laura Canning -- Women Cinematographers and Changing Irish Production Cultures -- Maeve Connolly -- A Cut Above: In conversation with Emer Reynolds -- Susan Liddy -- Documenting Documentary: Liberated enclave or pink ghetto? -- Anne O'brien -- Changing the Conversation: Education, celebration and collaboration -- Educating Gráinne: The role of education in promoting gender equality in the Irish film industry -- Annie Doona -- Activism through Celebration: The role of the Dublin Feminist Film Festival in supporting women in Irish film, 2014-17 -- Karla Healion, Aileen O'driscoll, Jennifer O'meara, Katie Stone -- What If We Had Been the Heroes of the Maze and Long Kesh? Collaborative filmmaking in Northern Ireland -- Laura Aguiar -- Text and Context: Documentary, fiction and animation -- Dearbhla Glynn: Documenting war and sexual violence -- Eileen Culloty -- Pat Murphy: Portrait of an artist as a filmmaker -- Lance Pettitt -- Juanita Wilson: A crusading Irish filmmaker -- Isabelle Le Corff -- Irish Cinema and the Gendering of Space: Motherhood, domesticity and the homeplace -- Ruth Barton -- Authority to Speak: Assessing the progress of gender parity and representation in Irish animation -- Ciara Barrett -- Conclusion.