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- A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.
- In Ireland, a newly hired prison guard has to deal with the realities of prison work and to face the grim issue of death-row executions.
- The misadventures of a young idealist man in Dublin, Ireland in the early twentieth century.
- James Joyce's masterpiece incarnated: The story of two seperated Dublin wanderers, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, struggling to control their personal lives.
- When farmer Evan's mare has a fine son, he promises the black stallion to his son Joe. The youngster enjoy growing up as playmates. Alas, once the good squire is buried, his mean heir, who abuses animals, turns the screws on till pa Evans is forced to leave and abandon even Black Beauty. He soon loses everything in a cards game, so the stallion ends up in the Hackenschmidt circus. Joe is desperate to get him back.
- In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermot O'Neill finds it easy to get into the IRA, but can he get out?
- A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a spy for Germany.
- A small Irish town: atheist writer shot by a man claiming amnesia. Miracle or murder? Local priest discovers it's a plot: revenge killing. Gets to trial too late - the jury have acquitted. JN gloats - to be struck dead in the courtroom.
- Stephen Dedalus is a young man growing up in Ireland in the early part of the twentieth century. His search for knowledge and understanding, and the decline of his family's circumstances, lead him to revelations on the nature of art and politics. His personal renaissance makes him feel unwelcome in his own country, and forces him to decide whether to leave and accept exile, or to stay and fight.
- In 1880 Ireland, poor farmers rebel against the abuses of their British landlords.
- Linda Purl is a turn-of-the-century American heiress who, while en route to her betrothal to an English Duke (Timothy Dalton), encounters love and intrigue in the arms of a French journalist (Shane Briant).
- A woman searches for her husband, who boarded a plane for Ireland and disappeared.
- In 1798, a small force of French troops sail to Ireland to support the local rebels against the British forces under Lord Cornwallis.
- A sincere young woman straightens out a wild and irresponsible ladies' man.
- A small town plans to erect a monument in memory of an IRA rebel killed during the 1920's. The son of the English Colonel who killed the rebel objects to this.
- An eight part series dramatizing the Irish Easter Rising of 1916. The series was commissioned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Rising.
- While in Ireland, a young insurance executive finds out that back at company headquarters, someone else has been promoted to a job that he was hoping to get. Enraged, he writes a scathing--and insulting--letter to his superiors. He soon discovers, however, that the reason he wasn't promoted was that the company is going to promote him to an even more important job with even more money. Frantic, he desperately tries to get the letter back before it gets to his bosses.
- In a working-class Jewish family in Dublin, a young boy becomes increasingly close to an old orthodox Jew and assimilates his views, much to the dismay of his family.
- A British TV producer is traveling in Ireland when he comes across a village where they are planning a birthday party for the oldest man in the world. He decides he wants to make a film about this man, but Patrick Farrell is not the delightful old man one would hope him to be. And he is not enthusiastic about making a big deal of his upcoming birthday either.
- A man returns to his Irish town after being in jail for five years for murder. His friends try to help him fit in again, but he refuses and secludes himself from the world. Only a pretty girl and his crippled son can still reach him.
- When his father becomes the latest bomb victim Jimmy leaves Belfast and goes to begin a new life on his uncle's farm in the remote west of Ireland. But even here there are links with the past and Jimmy's new start is soon under threat.
- The programme opens with the television newsreader Maurice O'Doherty concluding a report on the Battle of Verdun before handing over to the studio presenter Ray McAnally for the week s special report. McAnally introduces reports on the sinking of the Aud, a notice in the day's newspapers cancelling the Irish Volunteer parades and an item on Sinn Féin. There is a report from Banna Strand where arms were found and a man arrested. McAnally interviews Sir Matthew Nathan, Under Secretary for Ireland, in studio who reveals that the man arrested was Sir Roger Casement. Reporter Pat Nolan interviews Professor Eoin MacNeill at St. Enda's School and at his home. Thomas Clarke gives his reaction to the cancellation of the parade. Reporter Maurie Taylor interviews Lord Wimbourne at the Vice Regal Lodge who assures the audience that there will be no rising.