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Forgotten Irish drama series.

  • 05-06-2021 3:45pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭


    Following on from forgotten Irish sitcoms, any Irish produced or set drama series that wasnt a comedy that's been forgotten. When Reason Sleeps, a four part anthology from 1987 of supernatural tinged stories, co production with Channel 4. Never repeated or received a home media release as far as I know. Two of the episodes are on YouTube, Fear Of The Dark and the Scar. A very rare foray for RTE into horror, makes you wish theyd done more stuff like this.





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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    On Home Ground. RTEs short lived replacement for Glenroe on the Sunday night slot, lasted one series.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    The Big Bow Wow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,130 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    On Home Ground. RTEs short lived replacement for Glenroe on the Sunday night slot, lasted one series.

    Dominique McElligott played the tomboy daughter footballer in that... now starring in major US series The Boys.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    ‘Love Is The Drug’ and ‘Pure Mule’.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    The Big Bow Wow.

    To RTE drama what Extra Extra was to comedy. The bould Eoghan Harris was one of the script writers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Inside (1985)
    Set in a prison. Obnoxiously bad with future Fair City actors.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Inside (1985)
    Set in a prison. Obnoxiously bad with future Fair City actors.

    I vaguely remember that, got very negative reviews.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,130 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Rebel Heart, 2001 series set around 1916 to war of independence.
    First episode I remember doing a great job of showing the 1916 Battle of Mount Street Bridge.
    (Miles ahead of the recent Rebellion series)

    Quirke... detective series starring Gabriel Byrne set in the 1950s. Thought there was potential for a great series there but they threw in way too many anachronistic characters and behaviour. Should have had the confidence to be of the time instead of viewing everything through a modern prism.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,392 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    ‘Love Is The Drug’ and ‘Pure Mule’.

    Pure Mule is hardly forgotten.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,909 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Rebel Heart, 2001 series set around 1916 to war of independence.
    First episode I remember doing a great job of showing the 1916 Battle of Mount Street Bridge.
    (Miles ahead of the recent Rebellion series)

    Quirke... detective series starring Gabriel Byrne set in the 1950s. Thought there was potential for a great series there but they threw in way too many anachronistic characters and behaviour. Should have had the confidence to be of the time instead of viewing everything through a modern prism.

    I dont remember Rebel Heart, is it available anywhere i wonder?


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    On Home Ground. RTEs short lived replacement for Glenroe on the Sunday night slot, lasted one series.

    Definately got a second series if I recall. Was woeful stuff.


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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Dominique McElligott played the tomboy daughter footballer in that... now starring in major US series The Boys.

    She was in another series with Colm Meaney a few years back set in the time of the building of the railways in the US. Can't remember the name but it was decent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,130 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    She was in another series with Colm Meaney a few years back set in the time of the building of the railways in the US. Can't remember the name but it was decent.

    Hell on Wheels.
    There were a couple of Irish brothers iirc trying their hands at any angle they could.
    Started well then thought it went a bit 'off track' in middle... round about the time she exited the seried

    The lead Anson Mount also popped up as Captain Pike in latest Star Trek series

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭Pat_bottom


    She was in another series with Colm Meaney a few years back set in the time of the building of the railways in the US. Can't remember the name but it was decent.

    Hell on wheels.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Making The Cut and its followup DDU, Sean McGinley in a detective series set in Waterford, late 90s.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    RTE did plenty one-off dramas in the 1970s & early 1980s.

    The Greening Of America was written by Eoghan Harris. US satire with blackface, 1976

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    This has been posted before but is a good documentary on RTE's drama over the years. Broadcast as part of the RTE 40 celebrations in 2002. Includes a clip from The Burke Enigma (I barely remember a few scenes), a production that languishes in the archives and will probably never come out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    RTE did plenty one-off dramas in the 1970s & early 1980s.

    The Greening Of America was written by Eoghan Harris. US satire with blackface, 1976

    196291326_10165528435080089_7579644143729332345_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=TaObK4dEXBsAX_GmvFi&_nc_ht=scontent.fdub1-1.fna&oh=f07f3d6e76dbccfeb89a5bd995bc0159&oe=60E18042

    Was that anything to do with the book of the same name by Charles A Reich? Was the blackface done in a knowing, ironic way or was it a case of these were literally depicting black characters and there were no real black actors in Ireland of the 70s?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭Thepillowman


    Remember one from when I was very young called The Price think John Kavanagh was in it. Older brother used to watch it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Remember one from when I was very young called The Price think John Kavanagh was in it. Older brother used to watch it.

    That was excellent and came out on DVD a while ago


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Was that anything to do with the book of the same name by Charles A Reich? Was the blackface done in a knowing, ironic way or was it a case of these were literally depicting black characters and there were no real black actors in Ireland of the 70s?

    I think it was loosely based on it but Harris wrote / adapted the script. Someone I know had an off-air VHS copy years ago and I caught some of it - as far as I remember it was quite OTT and obviously satirical. Hard to tell on the blackface - back then the BBC were still running The Black & White Minstrel Show without any trace of irony.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Eugene McCabe's trilogy on The Troubles - Cancer, Heritage & Siege. We saw one of them in school. He died last year, wonder if RTE repeated any of them?

    EDIT - Cancer is on YouTube



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,525 ✭✭✭Mike Guide 69


    I dont remember Rebel Heart, is it available anywhere i wonder?

    Rebel Heart was made by the BBC,only available on VHS now on Amazon for a ridiculous price.


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    Picture of 'On Home Ground' cast. Unfortunately Amy's career didn't go the same way of this show

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Remember one from when I was very young called The Price think John Kavanagh was in it. Older brother used to watch it.

    Mid 80s, Charlie from Casualty as an IRA kidnapper


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    The Hanging Gale, McGann brothers fighting off English landlord in Ramelton in the 1800s


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Two on TV3 around 2009/10.

    The Guards, not sure if this was made into a full series, there was a pilot episode. From the clips I saw of it online it looked pretty riseable.

    Jack Taylor, starring Ian Glenn. This was supposed to be set in Galway but from what I saw of it the setting was very vague. Dont think it lasted long.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,371 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    Not really a series, but watching the Barrytown thing RTE have been showing recently reminded me of 'Family'.
    I remember it being powerful stuff at the time, I'd definitely give it a watch if they ever played it again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Phoebas wrote: »
    Not really a series, but watching the Barrytown thing RTE have been showing recently reminded me of 'Family'.
    I remember it being powerful stuff at the time, I'd definitely give it a watch if they ever played it again.

    The episodes are all on Youtube. Sean McGinley was superb as Charlo, a right evil bastard.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,517 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    Proof and Proof 2 from approximately 20 years ago on RTE. I believe it was about a journalist investigating corruption.

    The Clinic, which was set in a posh Southside private hospital.

    The Treaty, which starred a young Brendan Gleeson as Michael Collins


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    The Clinic, which was set in a posh Southside private hospital.

    2003-2009 so covers peak Celtic Tiger years and the initial crash. Watched it again last year, still a good snapshot of the era.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Everlong1


    The Spike! 1978 drama set in a secondary school that was axed halfway through after outrage ensued.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Two on TV3 around 2009/10.

    The Guards, not sure if this was made into a full series, there was a pilot episode. From the clips I saw of it online it looked pretty riseable.

    Jack Taylor, starring Ian Glenn. This was supposed to be set in Galway but from what I saw of it the setting was very vague. Dont think it lasted long.


    Ian Glenn an absolutely brilliant actor, but god above, Jack Taylor was beyond awful. Made Fair City look worthy of multiple Tony awards. I'm convinced it was wrote by a primary school student


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Two on TV3 around 2009/10.

    The Guards, not sure if this was made into a full series, there was a pilot episode. From the clips I saw of it online it looked pretty riseable.

    Jack Taylor, starring Ian Glenn. This was supposed to be set in Galway but from what I saw of it the setting was very vague. Dont think it lasted long.

    Tv3 showed it in a haphazard fashion over about 5 years, think some scenes were shot in Germany as some of the money was German


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Murder in Eden, 1991 Tony Doyle, Peter Firth and Ian Bannen ,


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,640 ✭✭✭Hamachi


    I remember seeing a movie / dramedy years ago about a group of young Irish guys, who were illegal immigrants working in the US. It was probably released in the early-mid ‘90s.

    It focused on their lives there and I think one of the guys turned out to be gay.

    Have never been able to find it again. Does anybody else remember this one?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Hamachi wrote: »
    I remember seeing a movie / dramedy years ago about a group of young Irish guys, who were illegal immigrants working in the US. It was probably released in the early-mid ‘90s.

    It focused on their lives there and I think one of the guys turned out to be gay.

    Have never been able to find it again. Does anybody else remember this one?

    It was called Gold In The Streets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,640 ✭✭✭Hamachi


    It was called Gold In The Streets.

    Thanks a million. Any idea if it’s available to watch anywhere?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Hamachi wrote: »
    Thanks a million. Any idea if it’s available to watch anywhere?

    Not sure, best bet may be dvd on Amazon.


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    It was called Gold In The Streets.

    If I recall, Ian Harte who played Joe (Michael Collins right hand man) in Michael Collins was in it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    The Year Of The French. Big budget co production with Channel 4 and French company about the 1798 rising. Shown in 1982 and shelved since, no repeats or home media release.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    No Tears, hopefully on repeat in Baldy Noonans nursing home room


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Not strictly Irish but filmed here The Governor, Janet McTeer as prison governor


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    Proof and Proof 2 from approximately 20 years ago on RTE. I believe it was about a journalist investigating corruption.

    The Clinic, which was set in a posh Southside private hospital.

    The Treaty, which starred a young Brendan Gleeson as Michael Collins

    The Treaty was actually quite good from what I remember , Gleason was a better Mick Collins than Neason.

    The Clinic was terrible , but a few of the actors on it went on to better things (Chris O Dowd and Aiden Turner off the top of my head )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Inside (1985)
    Set in a prison. Obnoxiously bad with future Fair City actors.
    That was on when I was a kid, I remember laughing at the language in it.
    'Grass', 'get back in your hole ' and the lads watching Bosco :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,485 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Bracken, with Gabriel Byrne, Joe Lynch and Mick Lally. It was the missing connection between The Riordans and Glenroe.

    Strumpet City is worth a watch again. Pure Mule shows how good Irish TV can be, but it doesn't have a chance up against anything that stars Amy Huberman.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,517 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    I remember a drama from the late 2000s depicting a number of people who were struggling during the start of the recession.
    It depicted a different person each week. The one I watched depicted a young single mother who was living hostel to hostel. Her family had little sympathy for her and the father of her child was a total scrote.
    I can't for the life of me remember the name of the show though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    I remember a drama from the late 2000s depicting a number of people who were struggling during the start of the recession.
    It depicted a different person each week. The one I watched depicted a young single mother who was living hostel to hostel. Her family had little sympathy for her and the father of her child was a total scrote.
    I can't for the life of me remember the name of the show though.

    Prosperity, the other episodes from what I remember were a young lad living in a flat complex (Ballymum?) who goes to visit his biological dad who wants nothing to do with him. An African woman working as a cleaner whose boss wants to get into her pants and the final one which I only half saw was about a middle aged alcoholic fella.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,461 ✭✭✭✭Zeek12


    Prosperity, the other episodes from what I remember were a young lad living in a flat complex (Ballymum?) who goes to visit his biological dad who wants nothing to do with him. An African woman working as a cleaner whose boss wants to get into her pants and the final one which I only half saw was about a middle aged alcoholic fella.

    Directed by Lenny Abrahamson.

    The episode with the alcoholic guy was kind of a spin off from his film Adam and Paul. The guy (Georgie I think was his name) with the drink problem was a minor character in the movie.
    It was a tough watch but that episode was actually very moving.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,256 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Zeek12 wrote: »
    Directed by Lenny Abrahamson.

    The episode with the alcoholic guy was kind of a spin off from his film Adam and Paul. The guy (Georgie I think was his name) with the drink problem was a minor character in the movie.
    It was a tough watch but that episode was actually very moving.

    In the movie was he the guy they were trying to sell the telly to, through a dodgy shop owner middleman?


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