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''Quirke'' is a crime drama television series that was first broadcast on
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and
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in 2014. The three-part series is based on the Quirke novels by
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, writing under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, and was adapted by Andrew Davies and
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.


Regular cast

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Gabriel Byrne Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, audiobook narrator, and author. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined London's Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's s ...
as Quirke *
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as Malachi Griffin * Aisling Franciosi as Phoebe Griffin *
Michael Gambon Sir Michael John Gambon (; born 19 October 1940) is an Irish-English actor. Regarded as one of Ireland and Britain's most distinguished actors, he is known for his work on stage and screen. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivi ...
as Judge Garret Griffin *
Geraldine Somerville Geraldine Margaret Agnew-Somerville (born 19 May 1967) is an Irish actress. She is known for her roles in the film ''Gosford Park'' (2001) and the ''Harry Potter'' film series (2001–2011). Her other roles have included ''My Week with Marily ...
as Sarah Griffin *
Stanley Townsend Stanley Townsend (born August 1961) is an Irish actor. Personal life Townsend was born and brought up in Dublin. After attending Wesley College, Dublin, he studied mathematics and civil engineering at Trinity College. While there he joined the ...
as Inspector Hackett * Brian Gleeson as Sinclair


Complete main cast


Production

''Quirke'' was commissioned by Danny Cohen and
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. The executive producers are Jessica Pope for the
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, Ed Guiney for Element Pictures and Joan Egan for Tyrone Productions and Lisa Osborne as producer. A £389,388 production loan from the
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was provided for the series. The series was filmed in Dublin, from 19 November 2012 to 8 March 2013. Filming locations include
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,
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and the main set at
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.
RTÉ One RTÉ One ( ga, RTÉ a hAon) is an Irish free-to-air flagship television channel owned and operated by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). It is the most-popular and most-watched television channel in the country and was launched as ''Telefís ...
began broadcasting the series before
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, debuting on 16 February 2014. The series has been sold to five broadcasters and will air in Germany (Degeto), Croatia ( HRT), Denmark (
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), Iceland (
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) and Slovenia ( RTV). The series was also broadcast on
BBC UKTV BBC UKTV is an Australian pay television channel in Australia and New Zealand, screening British entertainment programming, sourced mainly from the archives of the BBC, RTL Group (mainly Talkback Thames material) and ITV plc. The channel was o ...
in New Zealand in March 2014 and on
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in Greece in January 2015. The series began broadcasting in the US (
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) on 3 April 2015, and on
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in Canada in August 2015.


Episode list


Home media

The DVD edition of ''Quirke'' was released in the UK on 9 June 2014.


References


External links

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''Quirke''
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