My mother was a woman of the '50s who had a family in the '70s while finding her political and feminist voice. She could make marvellous three-course meals after teaching all day but hated it. Because of that legacy, it… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I was always quite mature as a child and as I get older I'm regressing. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
Because I don't live there anymore, I've fallen in love with London again. — 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 achievement: she… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
