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A spin-off from Bracken — a short-lived RTÉ drama itself spun off from The Riordans — Glenroe was broadcast, generally from September to May, each Sunday night at 8: 30 p m. Created, and written for much of its run, by Wesley Burrowes, Glenroe was the first show to be subtitled by RTÉ, with a broadcast in 1991 starting the station's subtitling policy.
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Byrne's screen debut came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the spin-off show Bracken.
Byrne came to prominence on the final season of the Irish television show The Riordans, subsequently starring in his own spin-off series, Bracken.
A spin-off series, Bracken was launched around Pat Barry ( Gabriel Byrne ), and which featured Irish actor Niall Toibin, Mick Lally and former Coronation Street actor Joe Lynch ( who had played a lover of the Street's Elsie Tanner ).
After two series, that show was replaced as planned by its own spin-off, Glenroe, which followed the Lally and Lynch characters as they moved from the fictional townland of Bracken to the outskirts of the fictional town of Glenroe.
* Moira Deady went on to act in Glenroe, the spin-off show that came from Bracken, the spin-off from The Riordans.
* Glenroe ( a spin-off from Bracken ) ( 1983 – 2001 )
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