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60 Years of Tolka Row

It was this month 60 years ago that Ireland got its first soap opera. Tolka Row focused on two families in an imaginary housing estate in north Dublin and ran for 5 years in the 1960s. Sean was joined by Eamon Bohan, Curator of the Irish Pirate Radio Archive in DCU, has been investigating its origins for the current edition of Ireland’s Own and he joins me now...  Image: SuperannRTÉ

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15.06 22 Jan 2024


60 Years of Tolka Row


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15.06 22 Jan 2024


It was this month 60 years ago that Ireland got its first soap opera. Tolka Row focused on two families in an imaginary housing estate in north Dublin and ran for 5 years in the 1960s.

Sean was joined by Eamon Bohan, Curator of the Irish Pirate Radio Archive in DCU, has been investigating its origins for the current edition of Ireland’s Own and he joins me now... 

Image: SuperannRTÉ


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