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Phoebe is worried that she has not seen her friend April Latimer for some weeks and persuades Quirke, still coming to terms with Sarah's death, to help find her. April's brother Oscar, a doctor, ...
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Mal is still angry with Quirke for revealing Phoebe's true paternity and blames him for her quitting medical school to work in a hat shop. Here she meets louche Leslie White, manager of the Silver ...
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Quirke, a pathologist in 1950s Dublin, is perturbed when his strait-laced adoptive brother Malachy, an obstetrician, appears to be tampering with evidence relating to the recently deceased Christine ...
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| Gabriel Byrne | ... | Quirke 3 episodes, 2014 | |
| Nick Dunning | ... | Malachy Griffin 3 episodes, 2014 | |
| Brian Gleeson | ... | Sinclair 3 episodes, 2014 | |
| Aisling Franciosi | ... | Phoebe Griffin 3 episodes, 2014 | |
| Stanley Townsend | ... | Inspector Hackett 3 episodes, 2014 | |
| Michael Gambon | ... | Judge Garret Griffin 3 episodes, 2014 | |
| Geraldine Somerville | ... | Sarah Griffin 2 episodes, 2014 | |
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Frank O'Sullivan | ... | Davy 2 episodes, 2014 |
| Sara Stewart | ... | Rose Crawford 2 episodes, 2014 | |
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A chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue investigates sudden death victims in the 1950s.
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The new BBC drama 'Quirke' takes us into postwar Ireland - seedy, drunken, dominated by the twin evils of the church and the wealthy and corrupt. It's a somewhat clichéd view, made palatable by the series' muted tone, although at times in the first episode I struggled to follow the softly spoken dialogue and relatively (for a murder drama) understated plot. Unlike many such series, there's an overall narrative as well as individual stories; the fact that Quirke's niece has a separate, personal connection to all three murders reduces the overall plausibility. The cast is an impressive one, but the scripts don't really call on them to do anything extraordinary; the detail with which their characters' feelings are observed is often weaker than its symbolic depiction (endless booze and cigarettes). To me, 'Quirke' fell between two stools: too low-key and gloomy to be fun family entertainment, but not truly deep either.