When Does "How to Get to Heaven from Belfast" (2026) Take Place?
"How to Get to Heaven from Belfast" is a crime comedy television series showran by Lisa McGee that released February 12th, 2026. So when is "How to Get to Heaven from Belfast" set?
It takes place in the year:
We know this because in episode one "The Wake" when Robyn Winters asks, "I take it the spa's closed?" the hotel manager answers, "It is indeed, since 2016, if I remember rightly." So it must be after 2016 AD.
2023 AD
We know this because in episode one "The Wake" when Robyn Winters asks, "I take it the spa's closed?" the hotel manager answers, "It is indeed, since 2016, if I remember rightly." So it must be after 2016 AD.
More specifically, about a quarter through the first episode "The Wake" when Dara takes down a photograph of her self with her friends to turn it the audience can see that "Me Saoirse Robyn Greta 2003 Separate but inseperable" has been written on the back and, soon after, Saoirse Shaw says, "20 years and we never once reached out to her. Not once." Later, Saoirse even gestures at the photograph and says, "Those 20 years, they happened and they changed us." So it's during or after 2023 AD.
Furthermore, as the 2003 AD prologue ends there is a relative time setting title card that reads: "Twenty Years Later".
2,003 + 20 = 2,023.
Additionally, there are numerous flashbacks to the girls' younger days. Presumably these quick scenes take place around the time the photograph was taken, in 2003 AD.
