Cork actor Fiona Shaw was among the guests on Friday night’s Late Late Show and she spoke to Patrick Kielty about rediscovering her home county in recent years.
“I’m there a lot because my mother is very old now. She’s 99 next month,” Shaw, who is from Cobh, explained, adding she was away for work often so she feels “like a tourist” when she is home.
“I was away. I was often in the theatre and therefore away or on tour so often. I was always back for Christmas but I’m getting to know Cork and West Cork, if ever I can escape up west. I’m kind of discovering the country like a tourist and like a Yank going around the country.”
Shaw also revealed she based her performance in…