Glenroe | |
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Also known as | Gleann Rua |
Genre | Drama |
Created by | Wesley Burrowes |
Written by | Wesley Burrowes, Tommy McArdle[1] |
Directed by | Alan Robinson (Director & Producer), David McKenna (Head of Broadcasting Compliance, RTÉ) |
Starring | Mick Lally, Joe Lynch, Mary McEvoy, Emmet Bergin, Geraldine Plunkett, Robert Carrickford, Maureen Toal, Alan Stanford |
Theme music composer | Jim Lockhart |
Opening theme | "Cuaichín Ghleann Néifinn" |
Country of origin | Ireland |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 18 |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | RTÉ One |
Release | 11 September 1983 6 May 2001 | –
Related | |
Bracken, The Riordans | |
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Glenroe was a television drama series broadcast on RTÉ One in Ireland between September 1983, when the first episode was aired,[2] and May 2001.[3][4] A spin-off from Bracken — a short-lived RTÉ drama itself spun off from The Riordans — Glenroe was broadcast, generally from September to May, each Sunday night at 8:30 pm. It was created, and written for much of its run, by Wesley Burrowes, and later by various other directors and producers including Paul Cusack,[5] Alan Robinson and Tommy McCardle.[6][7] Glenroe was the first show to be subtitled by RTÉ, with a broadcast in 1991 starting the station's subtitling policy.[8]
Glenroe centred on the lives of the people living in the fictional rural village of the same name in County Wicklow. The real-life village of Kilcoole was used to film the series. The series was also filmed in studio at RTÉ and in various other locations when directors saw fit.[9][10]
The main protagonists were the Byrne and McDermott/Moran families, related by the marriage of Miley Byrne to Biddy McDermott.[11] Other important characters included Teasy McDaid,[12] the proprietor of the local pub; Tim Devereux and George Black (the Roman Catholic priest and the Church of Ireland Rector of the village respectively); Fidelma Kelly, a cousin of Biddy; Blackie Connors; George Manning; and Stephen Brennan.