Sit-down Sunday: An Interview with an Oscar winner

As part of my ongoing series of in-depth interviews, this is a conversation I had with the acclaimed Irish actress Brenda Fricker.

Brenda Fricker has the ultimate award at home — the Oscar she won for her role as Christy Brown's mother in My Left Foot. Kept on top of her fridge for many years, the gold statuette now sits on a ‘respectable little shelf’ in the sitting room of her home in Dublin's Liberties.

But success does not buy you happiness, Brenda will tell you. The actress has…