
St Patrick’s Day is one of the biggest drinking days on the calendar, and no show on television has ever combined Ireland and drinking as well as Black Books, the Dylan Moran sitcom that ran for three seasons. Co-written in the first season by Graham Linehan (with the following two written by Moran, Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley), it firmly stakes its claim as one of Ireland’s great contributions to comedy, despite being set in London and Moran being the only Irish person in the cast.