BRACKEN with Gabriel Byrne. Season 1, Episode 1: JUNE

Thanks to BRACKEN Fan Aidan, all 12 episodes of BRACKEN, complete without breaks or ads, are now available. These were taped from television. The video quality is a bit shaky and the audio has some static, but each episode is still watchable.
Bracken was a rural drama written by Wesley Burrowes. It was broadcast by RTÉ in 1980 and 1982 as two six-part mini-series. The RTÉ Guide published a front cover article about the first series on 4 January 1980. An article about the second series appeared in the RTÉ Guide of 1 January 1982.
The cast included:
Gabriel Byrne as Pat Barry
Niall Tóibín as Edward Daly
Mick Lally as Miley Byrne
Joe Lynch as Dinny Byrne
Sean Lawlor as Peter Thompson
Fiona Victory as Louise Daly
Dana Wynter as Jill Daly
The best information available regarding the series episodes, provided by Paul English, is:
Series 1 (broadcast on RTÉ1 during January / February 1980)
1.1 - June
1.2 - July
1.3 - August
1.4 - September
1.5 - October
1.6 - All Saints Day
Series 2 (broadcast on RTÉ1 during January / February 1982)
2.1 - December
2.2 - January
2.3 - February
2.4 - March
2.5 - April
2.6 - May
No copyright infringement intended. I own nothing.
Enjoy!

[@billparrish9200]

You'll never see a more accurate depiction of the sneakiness, awkwardness and greed of two brothers where a will is involved.

[@i.marr.6688]

I watched this when I was a kid because my mam watched it, After a few episodes I really got into it

[@stevephlyer]

So nice to see the fabulous Gabriel Byrne at the beginnings of his career.

[@MultiKs22]

there will never be soaps like bracken and clenroe again i grew up watching these .magnificent soaps and wonderful actors such as mic lally , joe lynch and Neil Tobin rip plus other actors who were on the show like Jonathan Ryan . who appeared in later episodes as scooner.there will never be actors like them again the were superlative in their own right. rip when I watch this reruns it brings back so many nostalgic memoires and years gone by in happier times .when you saw pat Barry in his kitchen making tea and going to mass on Sunday and then of down to the local pub to meet up with the lads for all the farming news and gossip around bracken village. thank you to Stella and Aidan for giving people back some of their childhood memoires and splendour times they were 1978 - 1983, when bracken was aired. then clenroe began in September 1983.wesley burrows was the genius behind this soap along with the . Riordans .

[@wilfredwilde9559]

I can remember an episode of the Riordans when two traveller children stole the Christmas biscuits and left a brick in the biscuit tin for Mrs Riordan to find .After they had fed them .
If you sired that today there would be uproar .It was a great series and I think on a farm somewhere in Wicklow they have old sheds with the rusting lighting gear still hanging there from filming the series.
Ireland has had a century of change in under twenty years.

[@Adrian.Messenger]

Thanks. It's great to see it again.

[@christopherlyons5900]

My God. Only 10 years later, he was in Miller's Crossing. I knew about this show, but I'd only ever seen a bit of Glenroe on PBS. Grateful for the chance to see it. Wesley Burrowes made his mark, for sure.

[@coyne_h91]

Thank you for uploading this!

[@michaelcollins237]

Thank u

[@dadodydo]

""It's no' wha' I expected... Much smaller".... Ha, ha!

[@May-rz3kb]

Thanks Stella and Aidan. Since RTE seem to have no interest in making Glenroe available again, what do you think the chances are of it being resurrected by fans? There's a small selection of episodes here on TH-cam, but far too little. It's very tempting to watch after finishing Bracken. Especially the first series.

[@johndoyle2429]

I can't understand why people want see the reruns of Glennroe again. The reason people watched it during that time. Because people didn't have as many channels like they use to. Fair City is lucky to be on air.

[@seanirish6173]

Just shows up in random recommended

[@michaelcollins237]

OUR SHARE?? They sicken me

[@johndoyle2429]

I say probably TG4 might show Glennroe near future maybe.

[@MultiKs22]

Stella this was taped off Tara gold in 2001 i remember when Tara gold started it was a tv station for people living in the uk who could watch all the Irish soaps again on reruns..

[@jeffreyberkin-ez3uh]

Was Dana Wynter in this show? I saw her in the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".

[@johnobrien7860]

Yes she was.

[@anothercomment]

Thanks for the upload. Do you have the cover of the rte guide from the first series?

[@StellaKuru]

No, unfortunately I do not. I have the RTÉ Guide for The Riordans with Gabriel Byrne on the cover, but that's all so far.

[@anothercomment]

@@StellaKuru That's fine. Thanks again.

[@slyarse7168]

@@StellaKuru Is this the complete series?

[@StellaKuru]

@@slyarse7168 Yes, as far as I know, this is complete.

[@seanirish6173]

Met mick once in carrigline cork in a pub i called him milly sorry mick rip

[@johndoyle2429]

I think reason why Glennroe was taken off the air, is because of it's own downfall. Basically their own fault. They up their game. First of all, they relied on the same characters and having half-hour Soap once only on a Sunday. Not that mad about fair City either, but at least they up their game.

[@mairedaly4926]

Crikey! The music makes it sound like it's a film on the scale of Out of Africa!

[@RebelofIreland]

Ah, the sheer transparent greed of rural Ireland...

[@johnobrien7860]

Exstradinary story really...