#Otd 1983: 1st episode of Glenroe aired on RTÉ. It was one of RTÉ’s most popular productions, based in rural Ireland. It would run for 18 years! #Kilcoole, Co #Wicklow used to film the series! 📺 https://t.co/3FJVdEBMwA https://t.co/P6bcttiuvJ https://t.co/GRnIRRr0Je pic.twitter.com/EJhUWwLbWy
— Irish History Bitesize! (@lorraineelizab6) September 11, 2020
Sundays would never be the same again.
Unless you had BBC and ITV obviously.
Any excuse.
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It just reminds me of not having my homework done…..
Hang on now
In fairness
T’was a spin off from Bracken, that introduced us to Pat Barry, Dinny and Miley Byrne
Which itself was a spin off from The Riordan’s
Minnie & Batty Brennan, Benji & Maggie Riordan, Francie & Delia Maher, Tom & Mary Riordan, + A great theme tune in fairness
I’d actually swap out my ringtone of 20+years for it if I could get me hands on it tbh
Glenroe for all its established sentimentality, tourist attractions and Irish TV history landmark moments was only walking behind its predecessors
All of course created by one man, Wesley Burrows
And grew out of people and characters he met along the way
The Riordan’s theme comes from the air of the song: “Down where the Bees are Humming” by Sean O’Casey
“Is there an’thing stirring?”
Indeed; all smouldering and mysterious in a big overcoat with a baling-twine belt.
vaguely remember Bracken being a fairly decent drama
Gabriel Byrne and Kate Thompson
(caveat: we didn’t get the piped television until the mid-80’s in my estate)
Do you remember Dick Moran’s brother tried to kill Julia Roberts?
Emmet!!!
Now playing a local councillor publican in South Westerly Mocky’ah Cork in Wicklow
The theme tune of The Riordans was the traditional tune “The Palatine’s Daughter” arranged by Seoirse Bodley.
Ahh, back when RTÉ had two or three good radio soaps, two TV soaps, weekly radio plays and TV drama series like Strumpet City, plus excellent news focus, documentary, comedy & satire programmes.