Dervla Kirwan Parents: Maureen O’Driscoll & Peter Kirwan

Dervla Kirwan was born to Maureen O’Driscoll and Peter Kirwan. Her father, Peter Kirwan was an insurance broker and her mother, Maureen was a language teacher. She is the youngest of three daughters.

Dervla Kirwan has two children. They are Florence Penry Jones & Peter Penry Jones. There isn’t any information about them on the Internet as they have been kept away from the limelight.

There isn’t much information about her parents on the internet.

Kirwan’s first credited TV roles were in the TV series Troubles in 1988 and The Lilac Bus in 1990 alongside Stephanie Beacham based on Maeve Binchy’s novel.

Her breakthrough television role was appearing in the 1991 BBC Scotland production of A Time To Dance, adapted by Melvyn Bragg from his won novel, playing Bernadette Kennedy.

In 2020, Kirwan began work on the Irish thriller series, Smoother, for RTE Television. Production began in early 2020 but was halted in mid-March, due to the introduction of COVID-19 restrictions in Ireland. It recommenced in August 2020 and finished in late October.