Finbar's Class Explained

Network:RTÉ TWO
Num Series:2
Producer:Roy Heayberd
First Aired:[1]
Last Aired:[2]

Finbars Class is an Irish television teen drama with music video style interludes,[3] [4] that was broadcast for two seasons on RTÉ Two in 1995 and 1996. The series featured Michael Sheridan as Finbar Bar,[5] a young teacher in an Irish secondary school and a host of young actors such as Fiona Glascott, Hilda Fay,[6] Jenny Maher,[7] Paul Walker,[8] Brian McFadden,[9] Aisling O'Neill,[10] Andrea Edmunds,[11] Amelia Crowley, Danny O'Donoghue,[12] Glenn Mulhern,[13] Amy-Joyce Hastings[14] and veteran actor Barry McGovern as the headmaster.The show became a cult hit, with stars featuring in pantomimes.[15]

Former Blue Peter presenter Caron Keating made a guest appearance in season 2.[16]

Reception

Eddie Holt of The Irish Times described the series as an "amazing form of television, more choreographed than coherent, a strange conjunction of Fame and Brookside",[17] while a 2007 compilation by John Boland of bad RTÉ dramas in the same paper described it as "twaddle".[18]

The series received recognition in the form of the Special Trophy in the Children and Adolescents Drama section of the Golden Chest International Television Festival.[19]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 5 July 2012 . RTÉ Archives . RTÉ Archives.
  2. Web site: 5 July 2012 . RTÉ Archives . RTÉ Archives.
  3. News: Oct 10, 1996 . School's out . . for sex lessons . . . . 6 . . . Taylor . Richie.
  4. News: Oct 12, 1995 . We can dance - abroad . . Dublin . 12 . . .
  5. News: Oct 3, 1995 . School drama . . Dublin . Supplement 16 . . .
  6. News: Apr 10, 2016 . STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART: The former soap actress is bringing her authentic and gritty approach to the Abbey -- and thrives on such a stage . Sunday Times; London (UK) . . . 8 . . 0956-1382 . . [Eire Region] . Shortall . Eithne.
  7. News: Nov 21, 1999 . Jen helps kids get upwardly mobile in showbiz! . . . . 18 . . . Kerr . Colin.
  8. Web site: Finbar's Class (1995) pełna obsada . . pl.
  9. Web site: Donohoe . Amy . 12 April 2021 . Moments leading to Brian McFadden's Westlife split from heartbreak to aftermath . DublinLive.ie.
  10. News: Feb 22, 2004 . Telly aches . . . . 16 . . 0956-1382 . . Heaney . Mick.
  11. News: Oct 12, 1997 . My coffin terror by 'vampire' . . . . 14 . . .
  12. Web site: Finbar's Class . GoldPoster.com.
  13. News: Mar 3, 2002 . Fair City's violent bad boy has a bash at a new Affair..being gay ; BUT STAR STUART ADMITS 'ROLE IS ONE THAT I FILMED EARLIER' . . . . 48 . . . O'Donovan . Deirdre.
  14. Web site: 艾米·乔伊斯·哈斯廷斯 Amy Joyce Hastings的全部作品(17) . All works of Amy Joyce Hastings (17) . . zh.
  15. News: Dec 17, 1996 . A chance to get in on Santa's act Santa's Great Christmas Adventure Olympia Theatre . . Dublin . 12 . . . Colgan . Gerry.
  16. News: Apr 15, 2004 . TV presenter dies at just 41 ; Caron Keating loses battle with cancer . . . . 8 . . . Sherna . NOAH.
  17. News: Nov 30, 1996 . COPS, DOGS AND FROCKS . . Dublin . Supplement 5 . . . Holt . Eddie.
  18. News: Feb 3, 2007 . RTE'S all-time great drama turkeys . . Independent News & Media . Dublin . 1 . . . John . Boland.
  19. News: Nov 14, 1996 . A Touch of class . . . . 6 . . . Taylor . Richie.

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