Ros na Rún
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| Genre | Soap opera |
| Directed by | Déirdre Ní Fhlatharta, Tommy Ó Fatharta, Cóilín Ó Scolaí |
| Country of origin | Ireland |
| Original language(s) | Irish(English subtitles) |
| No. of seasons | 20 |
| No. of episodes | 1,000 (as of 31 December 2009) |
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| Producer(s) | Cóilín Ó Scolaí |
| Location(s) | An Spidéal, County Galway |
| Editor(s) | Gert Thomas |
| Running time | 25 minutes approx. |
| Production company(s) | Tyrone Productions EO Teilifís |
| Release | |
| Original network | TG4 |
| Picture format | 16:9 (SDTV) |
| Original release | 3 November 1996 – present (20 years, 107 days) |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Na Rúin |
| External links | |
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Ros na Rún is a long-running Irish soap opera produced for the Irish language television channel, TG4. It was originally broadcast on RTÉ One in the early 1990s before the existence of TG4. It now broadcasts for 35 weeks of the year, airing 2 episodes each week from September to May. The programme is set in a fictional village called Ros Na Rún, located outside Galway, and near An Spidéal, and centres on the domestic and professional lives of its residents. It is modelled on an average village in the West of Ireland but with its own distinct personality – diverse population that share secrets, romances, friendships etc. While the core community has remained the same, the look and feel of Ros Na Rún has changed and evolved over the years to incorporate the changing face of rural Ireland. It has established a place not only in the hearts and minds of the Irish speaking public, but also the wider Irish audience.
Ros na Rún has been praised for its tackling of realistic and socially challenging storylines, which got it dubbed ‘The Wild West‘. It has dealt with many different storylines, including domestic violence, infidelity, theft, arson, abortion, homosexuality, adoption, murder, rape, drugs, teen pregnancy and paedophilia. Every Summer, while Ros na Rún takes a four-month break, TG4 airs re-runs of previous Ros na Rún episodes: series three is scheduled to start on TG4 weekdays at 2pm from 23 July. The show began its twentieth season in September 2016, and runs through to May 2017. Ros na Rún airs in Ireland and the United States and formerly in Scotland.
Ros na Rún was originally transmitted on RTÉ One and later transferred to the Irish-language station TG4, when it opened in October 1996. Ros na Rún first aired on the night of 3 November 1996. The episode filmed scenes in Galway, Dublin and London. The title plays on the double meaning of the Irish word rún, which has a basic meaning of 'secret' but also has a long history as a term of endearment, similar to "honey", "sweetheart", or "darling". Ros can mean either "a wood or wooded headland" or "a headland or promontory", so the title can mean either "Wood/Headland of the Secrets" or "Wood/Headland of the Sweethearts".
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