“There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of pe...” — Fiona Shaw Quote

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'

'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.

My grandfather was a travelling tinker in Cork.

When I was 20 years old, I was living in Ireland, going to school in Cork. There was this girl in my film class that I was kind of flirting with. We had this notebook that we passed back and forth. We would write 10 questions and then pass it back while we were supposedly paying attention.

There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I could link up with to teach me the guitar.