Hush-a-Bye Baby

Hush-a-Bye Baby (1990)

1980s Derry: Goretti Friel, one of a spirited group of teenage friends, meets Ciarán at her Irish language class, and romance blossoms. When he is arrested and imprisoned by the British army, Goretti is dismayed to find herself pregnant. Left to deal with the crisis alone, she is tormented by the conflicts of her growing belly and the influence of a Catholic upbringing.

Date of release
1990-03-09
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Margo Harkin

Casting

Interesting facts

Hush-a-Bye Baby is a 1989 Northern Irish television film directed by Margo Harkin. Set in Derry in 1984, the film tells the story of Goretti Friel, a fifteen-year-old Catholic girl who found herself pregnant during the Troubles.

Production

The production of the film took place in 1989 and was funded by British television's Channel 4 and Irish public service broadcaster RTÉ.

The premise of the film was inspired by the real stories of fifteen-year-old Ann Lovett, the Kerry Babies case, and the discovery of an abandoned baby in the grotto of Derry's Long Tower Church.

Margo Harkin asked Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor to compose the film's soundtrack but O'Connor was impressed by the script that she wanted to act as well. Initially cast as a nun, she eventually decided to play the small part of Sinéad. An instrumental remix of her "Three Babies" (a song about a series of miscarriages she had at the time) is the theme, while the vocal remix is played during the credits.

It was a film that really attracted me because it dealt with something I had first hand experience of - the horror of being young, single and pregnant in a country like Ireland with such backward views on femininity and sexuality.

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