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{{Short description|Irish television drama serial}}
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| genre = [[DramaSerial (filmradio and television)|Drama serial]]
| creator = [[Maura Laverty]]
| writer = Various
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| country = [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
| language = English
| num_series = 5
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| last_aired = {{end date|1968|05|31|df=yes}}
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'''''Tolka Row''''' was an Irish television [[DramaSerial (filmradio and television)|drama serial]] set in a fictional [[housing estate]] on the [[Northside (Dublin)|northside]] of [[Dublin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/tv50/history/1960s.html|title=TV50: The 1960s|accessdate=5 February 2012|work=[[TV50]]|publisher=RTÉ}}</ref> Based on [[Maura Laverty]]'s play of the same name, ''Tolka Row'' was first broadcast on 3 January 1964 and aired weekly for five series until it ended on 31 May 1968.<ref name="indo">{{cite news | url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/the-mammy-of-irish-cookery-2678637.html | title=The Mammy of Irish cookery | date=18 June 2011 | work=Irish Independent | accessdate=13 August 2012 | author=Quinlan, Ailin | location=Dublin}}</ref>
As [[RTÉ|Telefís Éireann]]'s first venture into soapdrama operasserials, ''Tolka Row'' quickly became a staple of the new television station's schedule and set the pace for all future home-produced serials. Its popularity also resulted in the station developing a second soapdrama operaserial, ''[[The Riordans]]'', in 1965.
''Tolka Row'' is similar in format to the long-running British soapserial ''[[Coronation Street]]'', from which it borrows its main premise (the everyday life of a number of neighbours). The showprogramme was centred on the Nolans, a typical working-class Dublin family, and their neighbours, the Feeneys. All episodes were filmed in a studio at Telefís Éireann's [[RTÉ Television Centre|Television Centre]] in [[Donnybrook, Dublin|Donnybrook]], Dublin.
