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DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES *** Final ***

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Death and Nightingales, Monday 10th December 2018, 9.35pm, RTÉ ONE

Episode Three 

Beth has a flashback to the day she asked Billy how her mother died. Billy tells the story, a tragic accident, Catherine gored by her own bull who has turned savage. It seems she died in his arms.

Going through the safe, Beth finds Billy’s will bequeathing his estate and all his possessions to his daughter, Beth, and her heirs on the condition that Beth marries a man of the Protestant faith. Feeling cheated, Beth removes all the gold.  She leaves a note for Billy and leaves.

Later on, Beth and Ward find their lives in danger.

Series Overview 

Jamie Dornan (The Fall, The Siege Of Jadotville), Matthew Rhys (The Americans, The Post), and Ann Skelly (Red Rock, Kissing Candice) lead the cast of new three part drama Death And Nightingales, which is adapted and directed by Allan Cubitt (The Fall).

Based on Eugene McCabe’s modern classic, Death And Nightingales is a riveting story of love, betrayal, deception and revenge, set in the beautiful haunting countryside of Fermanagh in 1885. A place where neighbours observe each other and inform, a world of spies, confessions and double dealing; where a pervading sense of beauty is shot through with menace and impending doom.

Set over a desperately tense 24- hour period, it’s Beth Winters’ (Ann Skelly) 25th birthday – the day she has decided to join the charming Liam Ward (Jamie Dornan) and escape from her limited life and difficult and complex relationship with her Protestant landowner stepfather Billy (Matthew Rhys). As decades of pain and betrayal finally build to a devastating climax, Death and Nightingales is a powerful and gripping drama that follows a woman struggling to control her own destiny and will illuminate tensions that tear both families and nations apart.

Death And Nightingales is a three part drama series produced for the BBC in association with RTÉ.