Derry Girls

Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), her cousin Orla (Louisa Harland), their friends Clare (Nicola Coughlan) and Michelle (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell), and Michelle’s English cousin James (Dylan Llewellyn) navigate their teen years during the end of The Troubles in Derry, where they all attend a Catholic girls’ secondary school.Erin lives with her father Gerry and mother Mary, her baby sister Anna, Mary’s younger sister Sarah, Sarah’s daughter Orla, and her maternal grandfather, Joe. James is Michelle’s cousin; his mother Cathy left Derry for England to have an abortion but gave birth to him and raised him in London. She sends him back to Derry to live with Michelle and her mother Deirdre when she is going through a divorce.On the first day of a new school year in 1994 Derry, Erin is annoyed by her cousin Orla reading her diary.Derry Girls Season 1-2 Download

Michelle introduces her English cousin James to Erin, Clare, and Orla. Sixteen years before, Michelle’s aunt Cathy left Derry for an abortion in England, but instead had James and has returned with him following her divorce. Out of concern James would be severely bullied at the local boys’ school, he is made the first male pupil at the Catholic girls’ secondary school—Our Lady Immaculate College—which Michelle and her friends attend. Erin’s crush David Donnelly invites her to his band’s gig, and Michelle threatens a first-year pupil on the school bus. Prefect Jenny Joyce confronts the group over the incident and reports them to Sister Michael, who gives them detention, causing Erin to miss David’s gig. 97-year-old Sister Declan dies while supervising detention, and Sister Michael enters to find Michelle retrieving her confiscated lipstick, Erin climbing out a window, and James—barred from the female-only toilets—urinating into a bin. The teens’ parents are summoned, and James learns his mother has moved back to London.