Episode synopsis
S1 EP5 – The Quinn family rush to get out of Derry before the Orange Parades start, but Aunt Sarah’s tarot cards predict a disaster for this trip and, for once, she might be right.
Cast
Louisa Harland…Orla McCool
Saoirse-Monica Jackson…Erin Quinn
Nicola Coughlan…Clare Devlin
Dylan Llewellyn…James Maguire
Jamie-Lee O’Donnell…Michelle Mallon
Tara Lynne O’Neill…Mary Quinn
Kathy Kiera Clarke…Sarah McCool
Tommy Tiernan…Gerry Quinn
Ian McElhinney…Joe McCool
Best character
God, I love Sarah. She’s so funny and the fact that she isn’t trying to be funny just makes it even better.
Favourite scenes
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Best quotes and one liners
MARY: They’ve been playing the same three songs since 1795. What do they need to rehearse for?
ORLA: (banging wooden spoons against her legs like drums) Well, practice makes perfect, MARY. You know, that is why they are so cracker.
ERIN: I’m sorry? Did you just call the Orange Order ‘cracker’?
ORLA: I’m considering joining.
ERIN: I don’t think they accept Catholics, Orla. Or you know, acknowledge our right to exist.
JOE: I’m telling you, Mary. That’s how it starts. Now he’s dictating what size of clock you can pack. Next he’ll be telling you what to wear, what to say. Before you know it, you’ll be faking your own death, assuming a new identity.
SARAH: Listen, Mary. I just did a reading. The cards say if we go on this wee holiday, we’re placing ourselves in grave danger, which I’m not buzzing about, to be honest.
ERIN: You’re not psychic, Aunt Sarah.
SARAH: (holding cards) I am psychic, Erin. I did a course. I got a certificate. (She places three cards on the table. Granda Joe watches.) Aye, this does not look good.
JOE: Still no sign of the lottery numbers?
SARAH: Naw, Daddy, this psychic carry-on, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Last night, I woke up to this wailing sound. I thought to myself, Jesus it’s Granny Pat. She’s trying to cross over. Now, it turned out it was only Aggie next door. She’d put the electric blanket on full whack and scalded the legs off herself. But still, it could just as easily have been-
ERIN: (unimpressed) The disembodied spirit of a dead relative?
SARAH: Exactly. My nerves are wrecked. I’m living on a knife’s edge, here. Is there any Rice Krispies?
ERIN: Do you remember the whole ‘us being in grave danger’ thing Sarah mentioned? Well, I think… (hysterical) I think this might be it.
MICHELLE: I thought you said fortune telling was medieval.
ERIN: Yeah, well, something has made me reassess all that. What was it again? Oh, aye. The fact that there’s an actual Provo in the boot of our car!
CLARE: (angry) Oh, no! I’ve lost my bookmark! Now I’ve lost my page! Oh my God! This day just goes from bad to worse!
ERIN: Bit of perspective maybe, Clare.
MICHELLE: But the ginger element… Well, I’ve sort of got a borderline phobia.
EMMETT: I’m not ginger.
MICHELLE: There’s a tinge, Emmett.
Final thoughts and fun facts
I love how at the start of the episode you think ‘why on Earth are they taking a big clock on holiday with them’ and then it gets to the bit with the IRA guy, it all makes sense.
The Orange Order is a conservative British unionist organisation with links to Ulster loyalism. As a strict Protestant society, it does not accept non-Protestants as members.
While filming the Orange walk scenes, the cast and crew were occasionally met with opposition from angry locals who were throwing objects towards the parade. This is actually savage.
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