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1	''Give My Head Peace'' is a Northern Irish comedy show by the Hole in the Wall Gang that ran in UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland from 2001 to 2005 with a special in 2007, which finished their (tremendously popular) TV run. It chronicled UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, sectarianism and politics as seen by two linked families.
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3	Ma and Da are a Catholic couple who live in Divis Towers with grown-up son Cal. The pilot parodies the 'love across the barricades' plot of most drama written about Northern Ireland, ending with Emer's marriage to Billy, an RUC officer.
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5	Billy lives with his Uncle Andy, an Orange Order member, lecherous Elvis-wannabe and staunch Protestant, who is naturally horrified that Billy has married one of Them.
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7	The actress playing Emer left in 2002, and Emer is replaced by Dymphna, her previously unseen sister.
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9	!!Gives My Tropes Peace:
10	* ApronMatron: Ma. Based off the Belfast housewives, who were a trope unto themselves - hard women who were usually the one to discipline a wayward teenager when she had to pick him up at the police station for drunk and disorderly, cook dinner on a tiny budget, make a packed lunch, take care of six children, catch up with the gossip and nag a layabout husband, all in a strident voice that could peel paint.
11	* DumbBlonde: Dympna definitely qualifies.
12	* PsychopathicManchild: Red Hand Luke personifies this trope, being a Loyalist psycho who beats up everyone when he doesn't get what he wants, pushes Uncle Andy around and believes in Santa to the point that [[spoiler: he hangs Big Mervyn by his ankles for telling him that Santa doesn't exist.]]
13	* ShapedLikeItself: Two characters form a loyalist pressure group called the "Protestant Loyalist Organisation for Protestants" after realising that the acronym of their first choice was [[FunWithAcronyms already in use by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation]]. The same applies to the attempt to form another Loyalist pressure group called the Protestant Retaliation Orange Volunteer Organisation when [[FunWithAcronyms Provo is another word for the Provisional IRA.]]

Context Series / GiveMyHeadPeace