Ballykissangel
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| Ballykissangel | |
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 Series title card |
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| Format | Drama |
| Starring | Dervla Kirwan Stephen Tompkinson Tony Doyle Colin Farrell |
| Country of origin | Republic of Ireland |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 58 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Conor Harrington Alan Moloney |
| Location(s) | Enniskerry and Avoca, County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland |
| Running time | 50 min |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC 1 |
| Original run | 1 February 1996 – 15 April 2001 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Ballykissangel was a BBC television drama set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English priest as he became part of a rural community. It ran for six series, which were first broadcast on BBC One in the UK from 1996 to 2001. Significant changes in the cast occurred between the third and fourth series and between the fifth and sixth series.
The name of the fictional village in which the show was set is derived from Ballykissanne, a townland near Killorglin in County Kerry, where the show's creator, Kieran Prendiville, holidayed with his family as a child. The village's name in Irish is shown as "Baile Coisc Aingeal", which means "The town of the fallen angel" on the sign outside the post office. Ballykissangel is often affectionately called BallyK by its fans.
The show was filmed in Avoca & Enniskerry in County Wicklow.
[edit] Cast
- Stephen Tompkinson — Father Peter Clifford
- Dervla Kirwan — Assumpta Fitzgerald
- Gary Whelan — Brendan Kearney
- Tony Doyle — Brian Quigley
- Frankie McCafferty — Donal Docherty
- Bosco Hogan — Dr. Michael Ryan
- Birdy Sweeney — Eamonn Byrne
- Stephen Brennan — Enda Sullivan
- Niall Toibin — Father MacAnally
- Aine Ni Mhuiri — Kathleen Hendley
- Joe Savino — Liam Coghlan
- Tina Kellegher — Niamh Quigley/Egan/Dillon
- Peter Caffrey — Padraig O'Kelly
- Deirdre Donnelly — Siobhan Mehigan
- Stephen Kennedy — Timmy-Joe Galvin
- Peter Hanly — Ambrose Egan
- Owen Teale — Conor Devlin
- Colin Farrell — Danny Byrne (Credited as Col Farrell)
- Ciaran Owens — Dermot Dooley
- Kate McEnery — Emma Dillon
- Don Wycherley — Father Aidan O'Connell
- Catherine Cusack — Frankie Sullivan
- Katie Cullen — Grainne Dooley
- John Cleere — Kevin O'Kelly
- Sam Farrar — Kieran Egan
- Marion O'Dwyer — Oonagh Dooley
- Victoria Smurfit — Orla O'Connell
- Owen Roe — Paul Dooley
- Lorcan Cranitch — Sean Dillon
- Susannah Doyle — Avril Burke
- Paul Ronan — Edso Dowling
- Robert Taylor — Father Vincent Sheahan
- Mick Lally — Louis Dargan
[edit] Episodes
The programme ran for six series from 1 February 1996 to 1 April 2001. Almost all episodes were 50 minutes in duration.
[edit] External links
- Ballykissangel at bbc.co.uk
- Ballykissangel at World Productions
- Ballykissangel at the British Film Institute
- Ballykissangel at the Internet Movie Database
- Ballykissangel at TV.com
- Ballykissangel, The Fan's Resource
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