Television

Shiv’s 36 and 7 months sober. She’s determined to get sobriety right this time and steer clear of all her old temptations and triggers. But what if the biggest threat to Shiv’s stability turns out to be closer to home? Giving up alcohol is one thing… but what about giving up her dysfunctional family? Can Shiv stay sober and still have the normal things in life; the things most people take for granted: a career, a relationship, a drama-free family… Or will something have to be sacrificed to keep her on the dry?

Set in the moorland hills of 18th Century Yorkshire, England, is a country divided. As the aristocracy are building the first cotton mills and factories, the common people are starving. David Hartley (Michael Socha) has been away from his family’s remote moor-top dwelling for seven years. On his journey home to Cragg Vale, West Yorkshire, David gets lost in the moors. He’s dragging a mysterious looking bag of tools with him and on his last legs.

As he’s about to lay down and die, he is saved by six mythical Stag Men who let him know that his work on earth isn’t done yet. David’s mission is to assemble a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise to bring comfort and dignity back to his community. Hidden in the wilderness of the Yorkshire hills and dales, their business is ‘clipping’ – the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death.

Roisin Gallagher plays Shiv Sheridan who returns to Dublin after years of partying in London, sober and full of good intentions – but being back with her family makes staying on ‘the dry’ much harder than she expected. As Shiv tries to navigate this new phase of her life, so must her family…and they all have issues they don’t want to face. THE DRY also stars recent Oscar nominee Ciarán Hinds, alongside Pom Boyd, Siobhán Cullen, Moe Dunford and newcomer Adam Richardson.

At school, Connell (Paul Mescal) and Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) pretend not to know each other. But when Connell collects his mother from her job at Marianne’s house, a strange, indelible connection grows, one they’re determined to conceal. Later, they’re both studying at Trinity College, where Marianne is popular and Connell shyer, more uncertain. During their time, they circle one another, straying toward other people but always magnetically drawn back together.

CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS follows Frances (Alison Oliver), a 21 year old college student, as she navigates a series of relationships that force her to confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time. Directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Leanne Welham, produced by Element Pictures, and adapted from Sally Rooney’s debut novel. The series stars emerging talent Alison Oliver, alongside Sasha Lane, Joe Alwyn, and Jemima Kirke.

A dark, psychological mystery which focuses on a murder investigation led by two ambitious and charismatic detectives, Rob Reilly (Killian Scott) and Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene). When a young, talented ballerina is found dead on an ancient stone altar, her death drags up another tragedy that befell this community years before – when three children disappeared into the local woods and only one returned.

This trilogy of films set between 1979 and 1992 charts the emergence of modern Ireland through the hugely controversial figure of Charles J Haughey. In his pursuit of power, wealth and glamour he can be seen to presage the dreams and aspirations of a whole society that emerged in the subsequent era of the Celtic Tiger, a beast he himself was largely responsible for creating.

RED ROCK’ is an Irish crime-drama series with an all-star cast. Based in the fictional seaside town of Red Rock is a busy Dublin Garda station just outside of the city. Two prominent families in the neighbourhood are the Hennessys and the Kielys, who have an ongoing feud with each other. Working to keep the peace between the locals are the police, however when a dead body is found lying on a pier the two families reignite their war.

PROSPERITY is a series of four one-hour dramas for television from director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O’Halloran, the team behind ADAM & PAUL and GARAGE. PROSPERITY tells four powerful, moving and funny stories set on the same day, each episode examining the life of a single character on the margins of the Celtic Tiger.

Three feature length crime thrillers adapted from the novels by John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black, and starring Gabriel Byrne as Dublin city pathologist Quirke, a charismatic, troubled loner who spends his life hiding from his past even as he uncovers the secrets of the Dublin dead.

The character-driven miniseries REBELLION honors the 100th anniversary of the start of the Easter Uprising in 1916, a defining moment in Irish and British history. Three diverse young women and their families, lovers and friends from Belfast, Dublin and London play vital and conflicting roles in the narrative of Ireland’s independence. Some prioritize family loyalties; some are motivated by the noblest of ideals, some by opportunism; others take up arms, prepared to sacrifice everything for the dream of a better society and true independence.

PURE MULE is set in rural Ireland, in the same terrain as Eugene O’Brien’s play and later feature film Eden. It’s a midlands market town, unnamed, but utterly familiar.Each of the six episodes of the original series (which first aired in 2005) focuses in on one particular character from Friday evening to Monday morning. By times sexy, violent, comic and elegiac, the series expresses the frailty and longing that is at the heart of each booze-fueled weekend. The drama is rich in language, loss and the edgy exchanges that can turn a night out into one of magic or misery.