Miriam Margolyes: 'I always feel like my heart lifts when I come to Ireland'

Miriam Margolyes is back with a new tell-all memoir, as funny and outrageous as we’ve come to expect. Suzanne Harrington meets the irrepressible star ahead of a touch down in Dublin

British-Australian actress, Miriam Margolyes: second book and stage show are currently doing the rounds

Shakespeare, Dickens, Black Adder, Harry Potter, Call The Midwife, Terry Wogan, Graham Norton, Martin Scorsese, Roald Dahl, Sister George, Babe, Cambridge Footlights, the Cadbury’s Caramel Bunny, dozens of theatre productions, documentaries, audio books, Cameo messages, fan conventions, audio tapes for sex shops when still an unknown, naked but for two iced buns on the cover of July’s Vogue and now a second book. 

Could Miriam Margolyes be the busiest Jewish lesbian in the history of the world?