

To his surprise his quiet refuge has been invaded by his adoptive brother, obstetric consultant Malachy Griffin, who is at Quirke’s desk completing some paperwork for a recently deceased patient named Christine Falls. City pathologist Quirke stumbles late one night from a party in the nurses’ quarters with a view to sleeping off his hangover in his subterranean pathology lab. Synopsis: Dublin, in the late autumn of 1956. Last weekend I have had the opportunity to watch the first episode, Christine Falls directed by John Alexander and based in the 2006 eponymous novel.
The three-part series is based on the novels by John Banville, writing under the pseudonym Benjamin Black and was adapted by screenwriters Andrew Davies and Conor McPherson. Quirke is a British-Irish crime drama television series that was first broadcast on BBC One and RTÉ One in 2014.
