Pat Murphy (born 1951)[1] is an Irish feminist filmmaker and lecturer, the director of Maeve (1982), Anne Devlin (1984), and Nora (2000).
In 1977, hoping to train as a cinematographer, she was the first European to achieve a scholarship year at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, which influenced her decision to become a director.
In a 2019 interview with the Irish Times, with the release of the TV programme 50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film, Northern Irish film historian Mark Cousins shortlisted Maeve in a collection intended to inform the (then) British PM Boris Johnson about the Northern Ireland conflict.
In an article on the BFI website in 2021, writer Trever Johnston stated that' Maeve is a startlingly radical Irish experiment ripe for rediscovery.'
In a 2021 article in the Irish Times, film reviewer Tara Brady remarked 'Revisiting Maeve on the eve of a major reissue by the British Film Institute (BFI), one is struck by its formal daring, contemporary relevance and anticipation of the corrective histories that shaped the 1916 centenary celebrations.
The following year saw her write and co-direct the two-part documentary Sean MacBride Remembers, an exploration of the Irish republican politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
[8] She is preparing a documentary on Muslim weavers and since the release of Nora was reported to have lectured in Singapore for three years and travelled around India for ten.