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‘Real awe’: wave of Irish jubilation greets Cillian Murphy’s Oscars win
Actor dedicated award to ‘peacemakers’ amid plaudits from president of Ireland, artists, academics and friends
The actor’s triumph in Los Angeles prompted a wave of tributes from Michael D Higgins, the president of Ireland, as well as the government, artists, academics, commentators and childhood friends, with no dissenter. Newspapers recalled Murphy’s start in music – his band was called the Sons of Mr Green Genes – before switching to acting and making a mark in Enda Walsh’s play Disco Pigs, about feral Cork teenagers. Then came , Dunkirk and Oppenheimer, amid other roles, all while keeping a low-profile private life with his wife and two sons in Monkstown, south County Dublin – an atomic strike against any latent begrudgery.
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