DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES – RTÉ1/BBC1

Jamie Dornan and Ann Skelly

THIS IS the first television adaptation of Eugene McCabe’s critically acclaimed 1992 novel about treachery and deception in the 1880s border counties. The three-part series by Allan Cubitt, the writer-director behind Belfast-based crime series The Fall, is set on the day of Beth Winter’s 23rd birthday and is introduced in a series of slightly awkward… Read more »