Finbar's Class

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Finbar's Class
Written by
  • Michael Sheridan
  • Jennifer O'Hara
Starring
No. of series2
Production
ProducerRoy Heayberd
Original release
NetworkRTÉ TWO
Release6 October 1995 (1995-10-06)[1] –
20 December 1996 (1996-12-20)[2]

Finbar's 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,[12] Danny O'Donoghue,[12] Glenn Mulhern,[13] Amy-Joyce Hastings[14] and veteran actor Barry McGovern as the headmaster.[5] 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.[3][16]

Reception

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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]

References

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