CALLAN KICKS THE YEARS

Wednesdays on RTÉ One at 9.35pm from October 20th 2021

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Episode 6 - The Hangover Years
Episode 6 - The Hangover Years

Brian Cowen and Ireland wake up to find the party’s over, Bertie’s gone and the place is so wrecked, Enda Kenny and Dermot Bannon rise to power. Last in the series as the cast look back on 100 years since the Treaty. With Leo, Micheál, Mary Lou, Francis Brennan, Bob Geldof, Hozier and more.

Wednesdays on RTÉ One at 9.35pm and the RTÉ Player

Episode 5 - The Bertie Boom Years
Episode 5 - The Bertie Boom Years

A man in yellow trousers pinches the peace process and a whole economy to usher in Celtic Tiger crassness, as the country falls for models, gangland, Diarmuid Gavin gardens and crushing credit while health crumbles.With Marty’s Party, Gerry Adams, BOD and Amy, Diarmuid Gavin and more.

Wednesdays on RTÉ One at 9.35pm and the RTÉ Player

Episode 4 - The Jackie’s Army Years
Episode 4 - The Jackie’s Army Years

The country milks the Italia 90 buzz dry while divorce, Eurovision, Mary Robinson and film paddywhackery nearly modernises Ireland, while Albert Reynolds knifes everyone. With Leo, Mary Lou, Mary Robinson, Johnny Logan, Claire Byrne, Marty Whelan and more.

Wednesdays on RTÉ One at 9.35pm and the RTÉ Player

Episode 3 - The Haughey Years
Episode 3 - The Haughey Years

Charlie enjoys life in full colour as Ireland plunges into beige, suffering emigration, Bono, toxic sweets, Moving Statues and Garret Fitz. With Leo, Micheál, Mary Lou, David Norris, Bob Geldof and more.

Wednesdays on RTÉ One at 9.35pm and the RTÉ Player

Episode 2 - The Showbands vs Feminism Years
Episode 2 - The Showbands vs Feminism Years

The menace of jiving and dancehalls prevents the rise of feminism in the era when RTÉ is launched by censor-happy bishops and Jack Lynch nearly invades the North with a broken army. With Leo, Micheál, Mary Lou, Phil Lynott, Gaybo and more.

Wednesdays on RTÉ One at 9.35pm and the RTÉ Player

Episode 1 - The Dev Years
Episode 1 - The Dev Years

Dev diddles the Treaty, Kerry sneakily dominates GAA, dark times for women plus Fine Gael’s totes awks origins. With Leo, Micheál, Mary Lou, Francis Brennan, Hozier, Peig Sayers, Countess Markievicz and more.

Wednesdays on RTÉ One at 9.35pm and the RTÉ Player

Callan Kicks the Years is a six-part TV series unlike any comedy ever made in Ireland, romping through the 100 years since the 1921 Treaty using sketches and satirical documentary. 

Starring Oliver Callan, it’s a fast-paced history with the gas characters of today - from Leo, Micheál, Mary Lou and Michael D, to Francis Brennan, Dermot Bannon, Johnny Logan, Bob Geldof, Hozier and Claire Byrne.

Amid a range of nearly 50 major characters are by-gone figures as you’ve never seen them before - Charlie Haughey, Peig Sayers, Phil Lynott, Countess Markiewicz, Ian Paisley, Mary Harney and both a young and old Bono. 

Callan Kicks the Years retells the cultural, political, entertainment and sports revolutions of the last century, with a huge supporting cast led by Dermot Whelan (Hozier, Dermot Bannon, Eamon Ryan and Diarmuid Gavin) plus Mary McEvoy as Peig, along with the young stars of Irish comedy including Michael Fry, Emma Doran, Darren Conway, Justine Stafford and Bernard Casey. 

The series will kick Dev’s grim legacy, the 60s showbands versus feminism era, the twin 80s crazes of Haughey and moving statues, Jackie’s Army, the Bertie Boom through to the Hangover of recession, in a way only comedy can. 

The most controversial periods of Irish history stripped down for a kicking? There may be calls to Liveline. Talk to Joe.

Callan Kicks the Years begins Wednesday October 20th on RTÉ One television and the RTÉ Player. 

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