Stephen Fry to appear in Ros na Rún

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Stephen Fry to appear in 'Ros na Rún'

CHARLIE TAYLOR

Actor, broadcaster and well-knownTwitter user, Stephen Fry is to make a guest appearance on the Irish-language soap opera Ros na Rún .

Fry was invited to appear in the show after visiting the set in Connemara recently for a new BBC TV series on minority languages called Planet Word .

His cameo will be filmed in early December on a closed shoot in Spiddal, Co Galway.

Now in its fifteenth year, Ros na Rún is broadcast on TG4 every Tuesday and Thursday evenings with an omnibus edition airing on Sunday nights.

The show is also broadcast on WYBE public television in Philadelphia, in the US and on the Scottish Gaelic channel TeleG.

Ros na Rún , which celebrated its 1000th episode last New Year's Eve, has featured a number of strong storylines over the years covering issues such as domestic violence, suicide, rape, drugs, elder abuse and abortion.

The soap's series producer Hugh Farley said there is huge excitement on about Fry's forthcoming cameo appearance.

"Our team of scriptwriters are currently writing Stephen a cúpla focal for his special role and we plan to film a highly entertaining scene with Stephen and some of Ros na Rún' s best loved characters,"he said.

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Nach iontach an sceal e. Iomha iontach don teanga ata chomh tabhachtach duinn mar naisiun.   

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The storyline is a bit clichéd

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The shoot depicted Fry as a confused English tourist who is lost in Connemara and wanders into 'Ros na Rún's Tigh Thaidhg looking for directions.

To the intense amusement of Tadhg Ó Diréain (Macdara Ó Fatharta) and resident barfly, Séamus (Diarmuid Mac An Adhaistair), Fry's character attempts to ask for directions as Gaeilge!

Tadhg and Seamus see an opportunity to exploit him to their mutual advantage but things do not turn out as they had planned!

Hugh Farley, Series Producer of Ros na Rún, said: "We really are delighted with how the shoot went with Stephen.

"He was an absolute pleasure to work with and I have to say that we were all very impressed with his command of the Irish language!

"We have written a storyline which plays to Stephen's strengths and features two of Ros Na Rún's best loved characters, Tadhg and Seamus."

Fry is currently shooting a new BBC TV series on minority languages called 'Planet Word'.

As part of a scheduled visit to Connemara to explore the origins of the Irish language, Fry's production company approached 'Ros na Rú'n to see if he could appear in the show. The production company will also shoot behind the scenes of 'Ros na Rún' and include it in 'Planet Word' which is due to air on the BBC next year.

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I think the image of Irish has moved on enormously over the last 20 years. With multimedia making it very cheap to produce media in different languages there is no cause for Irish to be classed as not belonging  in the modern world (WTF ever that means )  as was the case when I was in school learning it. There was a glorious burst from Conradh na Gaeilge maybe 100 years ago and then the language ended up in the dead hands of the Department of Education . Now anytime I am in Ireland we watch TG4 for kids programmes and the quality is as good as on any channel. The imagination that goes into the work of Telegael is inspirational.

I was listening to the CD Gugalai Gug with my daughter the last few weeks and it is amazing the store of culture that is accessible via the language now.  We played it when we had a few Swiss locals over for the tea and it got a hearing like everything else, as it should always be, without some Béarlóir bigot shouting it down.  Foreigners have a default respect for the languages of others and it is great to see Irish being given that respect after so many years of persecution.