Forgotten Irish drama series.

Yeah, I remember that. Ruth Bradley is great. The lad who played the character of Dancer got killed off ‘Fair City’ recently.

Definitely shown on TG4, was originally a BBC production, Ian Bannen is the parish priest and Peter Firth a visiting English man, based on a book called ' Bogmail'

This pops into my head every now and again and I was coming to ask a question when this thread popped up on Google.

I remember a scene where the wife gets mouthy with a British government representative who suggest the family get plastic surgery. And I remember that the police/MI5 handler and the wife develop a friendship in their few brief scenes.

Who was the actor who played the handler?

Inhad forgot that Gould was the assassin in this.

It was an independent production, made by Little Bird with C4/RTE/UTV money, rather than made by RTE themselves.

Amongst Women (I see now it's already mentioned in post 66 but I have added again)

Set in rural Leitrim an IRA veteran is a respected farmer. He is a widower and a tyrant to his 4 children

Tony Doyle was the main actor and I believe he may have died soon after production. Ger Ryan, Anne-Marie Duff, Brian F O´Byrne were the other main actors.

It was a super production. I vaguely remember reading the book and there are some differences but I do not recall what these were.

It’s really sad that so much of Irish television history has been lost thanks to RTE’s ignorant, short sighted policy of wiping and reusing tapes. Such a huge body of work from so many actors and producers just obliterated forever. I pray that future technology can somehow be able to retrieve this work.

Found on DVD in CEX - the 1989 three part series Dick Francis mysteries starring Ian McShane, guest stars including Patrick Macnee, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Niall Toibin and Lloyd ' Cecil from Dynasty' Bochner. An Irish-German-Canadian coproduction mainly between RTE and CTV, with DL Taffner (the American TV distributor who made big distributing the likes of Benny Hill to the US). Was made alongside for US syndication with the short-lived 1989 ITV version of the Saint (with Simon Dutton, very much the Lazenby of the Saints), sharing similar animated title sequence and music (by Bill Whelan).

Made between s1 and s2 of Lovejoy, it's very muchlike a series of Taffin. Ian McShane and Pat Macnee pottering about playing golf course, Geraldine Fitzgerald as a posh old bag, sacks of Gain, Conor Mullen as a sinister yuppie villain, Bungalow Bliss houses, Niall Toibin.… Baby Deirdre O'Kane.

We follow each other on twitter, right, hangdogroad?

Not really forgotten, since it's been re-issued on DVD, but if you get a chance to see Strumpet City it's well worth watching (and re-watching). Peter O'Toole plays Jim Larkin.

Also, John Huston borrowed the idea to use gas lamps as lighting for his adaptation of The Dead from a forgotten (lost?) RTÉ adaptation of The Dead.

I rewatched all 4 episodes of Prosperity from 2007 on YouTube yesterday evening. I forgot how depressing and bleak it was.