Actor, Eileen Walsh: “It’s so gross....but women are like avocados – nearly ready and then gone off”
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What roles is Eileen Walsh known for?
Well, actor Eileen Walsh, welcome to the show.
Hello, Darval.
Hi. Hello, how are you? Look, I know you've been on before and everyone knows you from your screen roles in small things like these, The Magdalene Sisters, Catastrophe Say Nothing. It is just phenomenal. And look, from all of your big theatre performances. But you'll be returning to our screens very soon for an RT documentary called about the 1926 census i want to come back to that it's amazing last night or yesterday the census was launched and i think the website has received eileen over four million hits already everybody's digging i know everybody on instagram is kind of bringing up their families pages it's so lovely to see like a communal search happening all over ireland it's great Yeah, it really, really is.
I'm going to talk to you about that in a little bit. But the reason why we've asked you back is to choose five songs that tell you something, that tell us something rather about your path in life so far. Can I bring you back to your childhood home at Quaker Road in Cork City? Your dad was a JCB driver, was he?
Yeah, my dad worked and my family always killed me for my lack of detail on all of this. For me, my dad worked down on the docks and he drove.
Do you know what I'm going to do just while we get that line back up? I'm going to share with you Eileen's very first song. It's a song I love. It's Annie Lennox's No More I Love You's. Eileen, I had to go to your first song there, but you'll be used as a live theatrical performer to sometimes things going a little bit tricky. And listen, sometimes they go wrong for the right reasons. This is it, because actually we were able to jump through actually to your first song, which was Annie Lennox's No More I Love You's.
What is the significance of the 1926 census documentary?
Where are you going in your head? Where does this bring you back to?
So this brings me back to the kitchen in Quaker Road with my sisters and all fearlessly singing it out quite loudly to, I'm sure, my parents' frustrations half the time. And then later, that beautiful piece of I would use as... Thank you, terrible. I would use that as a call and response in the theatre. I still do it. I love it. And it always surprises me, particularly if you're in the Abbey, you might even get somebody from the top offices who will respond back. So I love it.
You were one of six. So to what extent did your siblings influence your music choices? Were there lots of different music choices when you were growing up?
Oh, yeah, no, absolutely. Like our brother Michael would have been like The Doors, The Cars, Steely Dan, you know, Crosby, Stills and Nash. So that was all very much Michael related. And then Mary and Catherine and Burr would have been more David Gray and Mary Black and lots of kind of beautiful songs to sing along to kind of thing. Also Cork 100 love songs of a Sunday night. I remember feeling the sensation of school on Monday with all these love songs in the background.
I know that signal on a Sunday evening, the heebie-jeebies, the Glen Rose.
Thank you.
Exactly.
We call them. No More I Love You, that was your first choice. That song was for your sisters. And one of them, Catherine, I know was really instrumental for you because wasn't she really the sibling that forged the path for you to go into stage and performance?
She was, absolutely.
How did Eileen's childhood influence her music choices?
Catherine was the one who kind of had left home and had started off at National Youth Theatre in Dublin. And then when she would come back, she was kind of going, this is exactly where you need to be. And she was the one who started me on Saturday morning workshops down in the Crawford Art Gallery. You know, so without her blazing a trail, I would never have known what way to go.
And how would you have described yourself when you were younger? Like, I mean, were you kind of one of these like born performers performing on the mantelpiece for everyone? Or were you more shy and serious as a kid?
I think I was a mix of both. Being the youngest, you're kind of desperate to let everybody know I'm here. Hello, don't ignore me.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What roles is Eileen Walsh known for?
0:00–1:48
2
What is the significance of the 1926 census documentary?
1:48–3:40
3
How did Eileen's childhood influence her music choices?
3:40–6:15
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What was Eileen Walsh's experience with her first song choice?
6:15–10:43
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How did Eileen's family shape her artistic journey?
10:43–26:56