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UK television series

Ballykissangel
Series title card
Starring	Dervla Kirwan Stephen Tompkinson Tony Doyle
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	6
No. of episodes	58 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Conor Harrington Alan Moloney Punit Kulkarni Arindam Pokharkar
Production locations	Enniskerry and Avoca, County Wicklow, Ireland
Running time	50 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC One
Original release	11 February 1996 (1996-02-11) – 15 April 2001 (2001-04-15)

Fitzgerald's, a pub in Avoca that was used as a primary exterior set in the series.

Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama created by Kieran Prendiville and set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural community. It ran for six series, which were first broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2001. It aired in Ireland on RTÉ One and in Australia on ABC TV from 1996 to 2001. Repeats have been shown on Drama in the United Kingdom and in the United States on some PBS affiliates.

Significant changes in the cast occurred at the end of series 3 following the departure of central characters Peter Clifford and Assumpta Fitzgerald.^[1]

The show faced a decline in ratings from a peak level of 10 million viewers to 4.8 million^[2] and was eventually cancelled in 2001.^[3]

The name of the fictional village in which the show was set is derived from Ballykissane, 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.^[4]

The show was filmed in Avoca and Enniskerry in County Wicklow.

Cast [edit]

Character	Series
	Series 1 (1996)	Series 2 (1997)	Series 3 (1997–1998)	Series 4 (1998)	Series 5 (1999)	Series 6 (2001)
Clergy [edit]
Fr. Frank MacAnally	Niall Toibin
Fr. Peter Clifford	Stephen Tompkinson
Fr. Aidan O'Connell				Don Wycherley
Fr. Vincent Sheahan						Robert Taylor
Landladies/bar staff [edit]
Assumpta Fitzgerald	Dervla Kirwan
Niamh Quigley	Tina Kellegher
Orla O'Connell				Victoria Smurfit
Oonagh Dooley					Marion O'Dwyer
Garda [edit]
Ambrose Egan	Peter Hanly
Frankie Sullivan					Catherine Cusack
Other villagers [edit]
Donal Docherty	Frankie McCafferty
Liam Coghlan	Joe Savino
Siobhan Mehigan	Deirdre Donnelly
Brendan Kearney	Gary Whelan
Kathleen Hendley	Aine Ni Mhuiri
Brian Quigley	Tony Doyle
Dr Michael Ryan	Bosco Hogan
Eamon Byrne	Birdy Sweeney
Padraig O'Kelly	Peter Caffrey
Sean Dillon				Lorcan Cranitch
Emma Dillon				Kate McEnery
Danny Byrne				Colin Farrell
Sean Dooley (later called Paul Dooley)	Owen Roe				Owen Roe
Dermot Dooley					Ciaran Owens
Grainne Dooley					Katie Cullen
Avril Burke						Susannah Doyle
Edso Dowling						Paul Ronan
Louis Dargan						Mick Lally
Kevin O'Kelly		John Cleere
Kieran Egan			Sam Farrar

Episodes [edit]

The programme ran for six series from 11 February 1996 to 15 April 2001. Almost all episodes were 50 minutes in duration.

All six series have been released in Region 1, 2, and 4. In 2010, four years after the release of series 5, series 6 was released on Region 2, along with a box set of series 1–6.

The ninth episode of series 3, "The Waiting Game", was omitted from early Region 2 series 3 DVDs and all the Region 4 (Australian) DVD releases. This is not the case with the 2010 box set or any Region 1 (North America) sets, all of which contain this episode.

Repeats of the show were formerly aired every weekday on Virgin Media Three in the Republic of Ireland. In the Netherlands and Flanders, ONS started broadcasting Ballykissangel in 2020.^[5]

Series 1 (1996) [edit]

Series 2 (1997) [edit]

Series 3 (1998) [edit]

Series 4 (1998) [edit]

Series 5 (1999) [edit]

Series 6 (2001) [edit]

In other media [edit]

Father Peter Clifford^[6] and Assumpta Fitzgerald^[7] make a guest appearance in the 1996 Father Ted Christmas special "A Christmassy Ted", where they appear in a dream Father Ted Crilly has.^[8]

In 1997, both Father Clifford^[9] and Assumpta Fitzgerald made guest appearances in a Comic Relief edition of The Vicar of Dibley ^[7] entitled "Ballykissdibley", where the lead characters from both shows participated.^[9]

References [edit]

1. ^ "How to find life after the stars go out". The Independent. 22 October 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
2. ^ "Heggessey axes Ballykissangel". The Guardian. 14 March 2001. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
3. ^ "Irish drama Ballykissangel axed". BBC News. 13 March 2001. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
4. ^ "Chicago Center for Literature and Photography". Archived from the original on 29 August 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
5. ^ Programma's | ONS
6. ^ "A Christmassy Ted (1996)". BFI . Retrieved 30 June 2021.
7. ^ ^{a b} "Dervla Kirwan Discusses Pressures of Ballykissangel Fame". EVOKE.ie. 10 April 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
8. ^ O'Brien, Jon (23 December 2017). "10 reasons why Father Ted's Christmas special is the best ever". Metro . Retrieved 30 June 2021.
9. ^ ^{a b} "Schedule – BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 30 June 2021.

External links [edit]

• Ballykissangel at the British Film Institute
• Ballykissangel at IMDb
• "Official website". Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2014. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballykissangel

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