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Filmmakers · Ireland

Pat Murphy and John Davies

Pat Murphy was born in Dublin in 1951. She studied at the Ulster College of Art, at Hornsey College of Art, then at the Royal College of Art in London, where she was taught by the feminist theorist Laura Mulvey. In 1977 she was the first European woman to receive a year's fellowship at the Whitney Museum in New York. She then made two other feature films, on the housekeeper of an Irish insurgent and on the companion of James Joyce, joined Aosdána in 2003 and teaches film.

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