I was pregnant with my first child and so gloriously happy. I felt fecund and powerful. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
Getting pregnant proved to be a hell of a shock but it's really exciting. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
A lot of first-time mothers worry about how they will cope. But I'm more patient than I thought I would be even… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
When I look at a magazine and I see Kate Winslet, I will buy it because Kate lends it a sense of… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes a chord with me... as a mother... is to think of my 17-year-old son fighting would be just… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
As a chind in Dublin, I can remember having my plate piled high with four or five vegetables - and I'm convinced… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
Twenty or 30 years ago, certainly when my mother was my age, I'm sure she felt things were pretty over for her.… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
I actually thought it was quite nice to feel that I could legitimately take up extra space and not have to apologise… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
My mother was a woman of the '50s who had a family in the '70s while finding her political and feminist voice.… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share
Ballykissangel' made me a household name, and I am enormously grateful for that, but I don't feel it would ever have developed me into… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share
I've been very lucky with having a run of working with very special people and it just makes you work harder. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share
Because I don't live there anymore, I've fallen in love with London again. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share
When I look at a magazine and I see Kate Winslet, I will buy it because Kate lends it a sense of achievement: she… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share
I feel better now at 38 then I did when I was 17. But then, when I was 17 I did have the attitude of a 40 year-old. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share
I moved to London when I was 18 to develop my acting career, but I still love going home to Ireland to recharge my batteries. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share
I ate ostrich. I'm not very proud of it. I was going through a very experimental period and probably during foot and mouth. It… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share
The very nature of acting is one minute you're up and the next you're down; one minute you're in favour and the next you're… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) runs in my family, as do other mental health problems. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share
