Back in July 2022, I spent a wonderful (and unfortunately hellishly hot) day in Fota House down in Cork. I was filming for an episode of the second series of the historical documentary series Scéalta Grá na hÉireann for TG4. The crew and cast were all lovely, I got to prance around the flower beds in pretty costumes. A good time was had by all.
And then, as is the way in this industry, I moved on to the next project and kind of forgot about it.
So it was an absolute delight in late August of this year to get an email from Scéalta Grá na hÉireann’s amazing producer Derek Nagel announcing that series two would begin airing in September, and that to celebrate the launch they were holding a special screening of episode one in the Montonette Hotel cinema!
As an actor, you get so used to things falling through that you never really believe a project is actually happening until you actually see it happening. So it was an absolute delight to get to see our work up on the big screen. It’s a real thing. It exists!
And, it’s genuinely a really good show!
Scéalta Grá na hÉireann airs Wednesdays on TG4, and you can catch up here on their player.
- 6th September – 2.01 Grace Gifford & Joseph Plunkett
- 13th September – 2.02 Eleanor Butler & Sarah Ponsonby
- 20th September – 2.03 Michael Joseph O’Rahilly & Nancy Brown
- 27th September – 2.04 Matilda Tone & Theobald Wolfe Tone
- 4th October – 2.05 Leslie de Barra & Tom Barry [STARRING ME! and also some other very talented, lovely people]
- 11th October – 2.06 John Mitchell and Jenny Verner
Go check out this incredible little series. I promise, you’ll enjoy it!
Saoirse Wadding-Hayes | Actor, Poet, Theatre Maker 