The First Irish Woman at the Oscars: Top Photos

Jessie Buckley becomes the first Irish woman to win Best Actress, and 60 Buckleys in Killarney stayed up to watch.

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Saoirse Ronan, nominated four times for Best Actress — Atonement, Brooklyn, Lady Bird, Little Women — and never won. The Irish Times called Buckley's win the completion of "a job started by three other Irish stars." © https://www.flickr.com/photos/drlovell/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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