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 (1983-09-11) – 6 May 2001 (2001-05-06)
Related
Bracken, The Riordans
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A sign on the road approaching Kilcoole
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.
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