Irish actor Dervla Kirwan said on the Late Late Show that starring in the hit series Ballykissangel at such a young age came with a lot of pressure.
Not many actors experience mega-success so early in their careers. Dervla became a household name at only 23-years-old when she starred as Ballykissangel’s one and only pub landlady Assumpta Fitzgerald.
Speaking to Ryan Tubridy about the show, she said: ‘I have a very fond place in my heart [for Ballykissangel]. I had an extraordinary experience as a young woman, being catapulted into fame, it was a 16 million viewer show—unheard of really.’ Ballykissangel was a BBC show set in a fictional rural Irish town which is all shook up after a new young English priest, Fr Peter Clifford (Stephen
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