Margo Harkin
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- Directing
- Movies
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'Margo Harkin is one of Ireland’s most versatile and respected filmmakers – having directed and produced fiction and documentary films for over forty years. Her work includes an invaluable chronicle of Northern Ireland’s recent political history.
After graduating in Fine Art from the Ulster College of Art and Design in 1974, Harkin worked as an art teacher and community worker in socially deprived areas of Derry. She joined Field Day Theatre Company in 1980 as an Assistant Stage Manager on Brian Friel’s Translations, before going on to work as a stage designer for the company.
In 1984, Harkin co-founded Derry Film & Video Workshop with Anne Crilly and Trisha Ziff delivering critical perspectives that ran counter to the censored narratives then broadcast by British and Irish television. The signal works of this period were Mother Ireland (1988), Anne Crilly’s controversial documentary about feminism and Irish republicanism, and Harkin’s own Hush-A-Bye Baby (1990), a feature drama about teenage pregnancy following the 1983 abortion referendum in Ireland.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2022 | Nothing Compares | Self |
| 2011 | Muide Éire | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2023 | Stolen | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2018 | Eamonn McCann: A Long March | Director, Producer |
| 2013 | The Return of Colmcille | Director, Producer |
| 2012 | The Far Side of Revenge | Director, Producer |
| 2011 | Sisters of the Lodge | Producer |
| 2010 | Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary | Writer, Director |
| 2008 | Waveriders | Producer |
| 2006 | The Hunger Strike | Director, Writer |
| 2006 | Ocras | Director, Producer |
| 2003 | You Looking at Me? | Director, Producer |
| 2000 | Looking for Lundy | Director, Producer |
| 1999 | A Plague on Both Your Houses | Director, Producer |
| 1998 | 12 Days in July | Director |
| 1998 | Clear the Stage | Director |
| 1995 | NYPD Nude | Director |
| 1990 | Hush-a-Bye Baby | Writer, Director |
| 1988 | Mother Ireland | Producer |
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