BBC shows a major coup for Irish film industry

Two BBC television dramas will be filmed here this year in what is being hailed as a major coup for the Irish Film Board.

BBC shows a major coup for Irish film industry

Ripper Street and Vexed will begin filming in Ireland in the coming months. The productions are set to create hundreds of jobs and injecting over €10m into the economy.

Ripper Street is an eight-part series set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the notorious Ripper murders. The action centres around the H Division, which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel following the brutal murders.

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