The village of Tinahely and its people are the stars of the opening sequence to 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly'.
Tinahely (in Irish Tigh na hÉille) in Wicklow is located near the borders of Carlow and Wexford. The original village was destroyed by rebels during the 1798 Rebellion. Tinahely was rebuilt as an estate village complete with a market courthouse in the early nineteenth century with support from local landowners the Fitzwilliam Family who owned the Coolattin Estate.
There is plenty of activity in Tinahely, with children playing in the street, local people chatting and goods being transported from one place to another.
This episode of 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly’ was broadcast on 14 March 1974.
Once a week, from June to September, the ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’ film crew would arrive at a town or village in any county in Ireland. They would film the people and the place and return to RTÉ where the footage was edited and put to music.
This short film of around one minute’s duration formed part of the opening sequence for that week’s episode. But no-one knew which location had been chosen, and it was not advertised as part of the programme billings in the RTÉ Guide or newspapers.
