Joan Bergin

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95 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 8 Aug

Joan Bergin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Brendan O'Connor · “I think I'll miss being given out to by Brenda Fricker the most!” · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

Yeah, yeah.

And I got, like, I really wasn't the better of it.

I was with Liz and Michael and Gráinne Humphreys on that night, and I left because...

with the pinching of you can't sit for long.

So I left and an hour later they rang me and

like I was cross almost, you know, I thought, mother of God, I didn't, you know, I had, and I actually, despite how long I've been around, I've never seen anyone die.

So that actual day, I kept expecting her to wake up and continue an amusing conversation.

Yeah.

I can remember.

Yeah, I met her at the Father Matthew Record Fest.

And I went to famous Ina Mary Burke in Kildare Street.

They were called elocution then.

It's drama school now.

It's all I ever wanted to be was an actor.

So I went to night classes and Brenda went to the day classes.

So she came up to introduce herself.

This beautiful looking 17 year old, you know, with these very thin, these saucer blue eyes and this shadow of pain.

across them which I wouldn't have known enough then to know but I just I never forgot it and then the next time I met her was on my left foot when she arrived and

The story from it being, on the first day of shoot, she took her hat off and gave it to WB, her dog.

I was the costume designer and she ran up a field.

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