What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Going to an Enda Walsh play.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Péig.
Which living person do you most admire?
Mary Robinson.
Which is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Apologising for myself.
What is your greatest extravagance?
A husband.
What is your favourite journey?
The journey west.
On what occasion do you lie?
When purchasing car insurance.
Which living person do you most despise?
Trump.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
The sea.
When and where were you happiest?
Ballyconneely, 1984.
Which talent would you most like to have?
To be able to draw - I can’t draw a straight line.
What is your current state of mind?
Pale and wan.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Making a career from something I love.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?
A giraffe.
What is your most treasured possession?
My husband.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
A character permanently trapped in an Enda Walsh play.
What is your favourite occupation?
A patissier.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
A touch of ginger.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Gas craicery.
Who are your favourite writers?
Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Emma Donoghue.
What is your motto?
What’s meant for you won’t pass you by.
Clare Is an actor currently living in Dublin but cut her and she bleeds maroon and white! She will appear in Enda Walsh’s Medicine as part of the Galway International Arts Festival. September 2-18 live performances are sold out but tickets are available for the livestreams (September 18 to 15 ) and on demand (September 20 to 26 ). See www.landmarkproductions.ie and www.giaf.ie.
