Ar Son na Poblachta - a new RTÉ Cláracha Gaeilge series - recalls figures who were prominent in Irish cultural life 100 years ago but have since been neglected by history (RTÉ One, 7.30pm); iZombie (RTÉ2, 8.05pm) is a new forensics series featuring a morgue assistant with a taste for human brains. In My Homeless Family (RTÉ One, 9.35pm), three families have filmed their experience of being homeless over a three month period.
Ar Son na Poblachta, 7.30pm RTÉ One
First programme in a new three-parter which looks back to the revolutionary ferment of 1916 and beforehand and a number of figures from that time largely neglected by history. The first programme of the RTÉ Cláracha Gaeilge series tells the story of Arthur Shields, who was a character actor in a number of Hollywood movies and in many classic American TV shows. He was an actor and director with The Abbey Theatre and was the younger brother of Will Shields, who gained fame as the Oscar-winning actor Barry Fitzgerald. “I remember always hearing that the Shields family were always just one step ahead of the Sheriff,“ says Susan Slott, actor and grand-niece of Arthur Shields. “He came from a very socialist, idealistic, poor family, and they were always having to get out and flit from one place to another.”
Ar Son na Poblachta
iZombie, 8.05pm RTÉ2
In the one-hour pilot for this new series,, Olivia “Liv” Moore (Rose McIver) is a disciplined, overachieving medical resident who has her life path completely mapped out until the night she’s turned into a zombie. Now stuck somewhere between half-alive and undead, Liv loses all traces of her former drive and ambition. She transfers her medical residency to the city morgue in order to reluctantly access the only real form of sustenance left available to her and the only activity that allows her to maintain her humanity - the consumption of human brains.
Rose McIver
My Homeless Family, 9.35pm RTÉ One
Supplied with cameras, three families have filmed their experience of being homeless over a three month period and the result is this one-off special which should prove a revealing insight into what it means to have no home of your own. The number of homeless families in Ireland almost doubled in the past year. By December 2015, over 700 families - with almost 1500 children - were without a home, with many families forced to live in emergency accommodation , usually a hotel or B&B. Other families, not registered as homeless, live with friends or family as part of an increasing number of people ‘sofa surfing’ to keep a roof over their heads. Picture shows Sandra and Brendan Hanley-Hand, participants in tonight's film.
Sandra and Brendan Hanley-Hand
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