Fionnula Flanagan: ‘Sometimes you have a wonderful role and then sometimes your character is dropped. It’s the way it is’

Stage and screen actress Fionnula Flanagan was born in 1941, and raised in Dublin. She spent many years in America with her husband, psychiatrist Garrett O’Connor. My father, I was very proud of him, he went to Spain and fought against Franco.

He had only one word of Irish, which he would say repeatedly, and that was tá..