Anthony Boyle drama ‘Close to Home’ starring Michelle Fairley and Conor MacNeill

“Game of Thrones” star Michelle Fairley and “Industries” Conor MacNeill have joined the cast of Channel 4’s upcoming Anthony Boyle drama “Close to Home.”

Fairley plays Dearbhla while MacNeill plays Marty.

They join “Masters of the Air” star Boyle as Sean, alongside Jessica Reynolds (“A Woman of Substance”) as Mairéad, Seamus O’Hara (“House of Guinness”) as Anthony and Oisín Thompson (“Trespasses”) as Ryan.

Rounding out the cast are Gerard Headley (“Specky Clark”) as Finty, Kerri Quinn (“Say Nothing”) as Jackie, Hannah McClean (“Blue Lights”) as Bernice, Jeanne Nicole Ní Áinle (“How to Get to Heaven From Belfast”) as Julia and Lalor Roddy (“That They May Face the Rising Sun”) as Fra.

Produced by Fremantle’s award-winning Element Pictures (“Normal People”, “Bugonia”), “Close to Home” is based on Michael Magee’s debut novel, about a generation growing up in the aftermath of the Troubles, Northern Ireland’s long and violent conflict.

Magee adapts his own work while Diarmuid Goggins (“Code of Silence”) directs.

The series follows Sean as he returns to Belfast after university and quickly falls back into old habits. “Back to the crazy night owls, the borrowed tens and the missing rent, the casual jobs that always fail,” reads the synopsis. “Back to his brother, his mother and all the things they never talk about. Back to where the promised prosperity of peacetime has yet to come and every street has a story to tell. One night Sean attacks a stranger at a party and everything turns into chaos.”

Commissioned by Channel 4 by Gwawr Lloyd, interim head of drama and Gemma Boswell, editor-in-chief of drama, production is executive produced by Christopher Aird, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe for Element Pictures, Michael Dawson, Michael Magee, Diarmuid Goggins and Anthony Boyle. Martin Mahon serves as producer.

Fremantle is distributing the series, which was shot on location in Belfast. Filming wrapped last month.

The series was made with support from Northern Ireland Screen and Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland.

A broadcast date is yet to be announced