The Irish R.M.

• 1. Great Uncle McCarthy

  50m

  Major Sinclair Yeates, an Englishman, arrives in a rural area of Victorian Ireland. He has married his colonel's daughter and has decided to take up a new career as a Resident Magistrate. Major Yeates quickly meets the hard-riding Knox clan, including Great Uncle McCarthy and young Flurry Knox, his landlord.

• 2. Trinket's Colt

  50m

  Continuing the story of Major Sinclair Yeates's experiences in Ireland. He has to deal with a remarkable dispute about a young horse. Meanwhile, the Major's wife, Phillipa, arrives from England.

• 3. A Misdeal

  50m

  Yeates and Philippa visit a horse fair in search of a suitable mount for a forthcoming hunt.

• 4. The Boat's Share

  50m

  Yeates and his cousin Basil fear their careers are ruined when they are caught in a police raid at the Brickleys.

• 5. Occasional Licences

  50m

  A local publican neatly sidesteps Yeates' objections to beer sales at the annual St Peter and St Paul's Day Games.

• 6. O Love! O Fire!

  50m

  Major Sinclair Yeates has settled in as a magistrate in rural Ireland and even his wife Philippa is taking to the country. And with Flurry Knox in love with his cousin, it seems that neither love nor fire should always be taken at face value.

Cast

Peter Bowles

Major Sinclair Yeates

Bryan Murray

Flurry Knox

Brendan Conroy

Peter Cadogan

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Anna Manahan

Mrs Cadogan

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Lise-Ann McLaughlin

Sally Knox

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Virginia Cole

Briget Brickley-Cadogan

Sarah Badel

Babs