Actor, broadcaster and well-known Twitter user, Stephen Fry made a guest appearance on the Irish-language soap opera Ros na Rún .
Fry was invited to appear in the show after visiting the set in Connemara recently for a new BBC TV series on minority languages called Planet Word .
His cameo was filmed filmed in early December on a closed shoot in Spiddal, Co Galway.
He said: "Connemara is pretty extraordinary. It's like the sea -- wet and very cold, but actually it's beautiful."
Fry told his followers on Twitter: "In the 'Ros na Run' studio being made up for my Irish-speaking appearance. Eek, hope my accent isn't too dire.
"I'm doing a documentary on languages and this is the heartland of Irish-speaking Ireland -- we're just having conversations about the language and how it goes forward and whether the young generation are picking it up and the rest of it.
"I will be playing a bewildered tourist on 'Ros na Run'. The great thing is, because I'm a tourist, I don't have to speak it very well, just make an effort," he said.
Now in its fifteenth year, Ros na Rún is broadcast on TG4 every Tuesday and Thursday evenings with an omnibus edition airing on Sunday nights.
The show is also broadcast on WYBE public television in Philadelphia, in the US and on the Scottish Gaelic channel TeleG.
Ros na Rún , which celebrated its 1000th episode last New Year's Eve, has featured a number of strong storylines over the years covering issues such as domestic violence, suicide, rape, drugs, elder abuse and abortion.
The soap's series producer Hugh Farley said there is huge excitement on about Fry's forthcoming cameo appearance.
"Our team of scriptwriters wrote Stephen a cúpla focal for his special role and we filmed a highly entertaining scene with Stephen and some of Ros na Rún’ s best loved characters,“ he said.
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