# The best Irish TV series

From Father Ted to Derry Girls and Love/Hate: the best Irish series according to Ireland Before You Die, Countryfile and ConnollyCove.

- 1280 votes · 14 items
- Nov 19, 2025 · boxoffice_atlanta
- https://even.best/en/l/3745/the-best-irish-tv-series

## Top 14

1. **Derry Girls (2018-2022)** (118 · ▲128 ▼10) — Teenagers in 1990s Derry during the Troubles; Northern Ireland's most-watched show.
2. **Love/Hate (2010-2014)** (110 · ▲115 ▼5) — Dublin's gangland; the most-watched Irish drama ever.
3. **Father Ted (1995-1998)** (107 · ▲118 ▼11) — Three priests and their housekeeper on Craggy Island.
4. **Bad Sisters (2022-)** (84 · ▲90 ▼6) — Five sisters and a hated brother-in-law.
5. **Normal People (2020)** (71 · ▲79 ▼8) — Sally Rooney's Marianne and Connell.
6. **The Young Offenders (2018-)** (69 · ▲80 ▼11) — Two Cork teenagers and their schemes.
7. **Say Nothing (2024)** (62 · ▲78 ▼16) — The Troubles, from Patrick Radden Keefe's book.
8. **Single-Handed (2007-2010)** (56 · ▲64 ▼8) — A garda sergeant in the west of Ireland.
9. **Mrs Brown's Boys (2011-)** (49 · ▲61 ▼12) — Brendan O'Carroll as Agnes Brown.
10. **The Fall (2013-2016)** (46 · ▲60 ▼14) — Gillian Anderson hunts a killer in Belfast.
11. **Kin (2021-2023)** (44 · ▲67 ▼23) — A Dublin crime family at war.
12. **Bosco (1979-1987)** (41 · ▲54 ▼13) — The children's puppet in the box.
13. **Glenroe (1983-2001)** (40 · ▲56 ▼16) — RTÉ's long-running rural drama.
14. **Moone Boy (2012-2015)** (39 · ▲58 ▼19) — Chris O'Dowd as an imaginary friend in Boyle.

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