{"id":2331056,"date":"2026-03-16T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2331056"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:47:08","slug":"ireland-celebrates-jessie-buckley-as-the-countrys-first-best-actress-oscar-winner-a-historic-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ireland-celebrates-jessie-buckley-as-the-countrys-first-best-actress-oscar-winner-a-historic-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Celebrates Jessie Buckley as the Country\u2019s First Best Actress Oscar Winner: \u2018A Historic Moment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14905854\/\">Hamnet<\/a>\u201d star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2976580\/\">Jessie Buckley<\/a> became an Irish national hero on Sunday night as she made Oscar history, becoming the first best actress winner from the country. Back home in Ireland, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13386357\/\">Buckley<\/a> was celebrated by President <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9868500\/\">Catherine Connolly<\/a> alongside Irish animator <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0051824\/\">Richard Baneham<\/a>, who won for best visual effects on \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1757678\/\">Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJessie Buckley\u2019s award is an historic moment,\u201d Connolly said in a press release sent out on Monday morning. \u201cThis achievement is a thoroughly deserved testament not only to Jessie\u2019s outstanding performance in \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14905854\/\">Hamnet<\/a>,\u2019 but to her performances both in film and on stage across her career to date. I know that her proud community in Kerry and beyond will be sharing with her in this wonderful achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11786352\/\">Miche\u00e1l Martin<\/a> also posted on social media to praise Buckley. \u201cCongratulations Jessie Buckley on your historic Oscar success! A well deserved win too for Richard Baneham&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHamnet\u201d star Jessie Buckley became an Irish national hero on Sunday night as she made Oscar history, becoming the first best actress winner from the country. Back home in Ireland, Buckley was celebrated by President Catherine Connolly alongside Irish animator Richard Baneham, who won for best visual effects on \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash.\u201d \u201cJessie Buckley\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2331057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2331056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ireland-Celebrates-Jessie-Buckley-as-the-Countrys-First-Best-Actress.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331058,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331056\/revisions\/2331058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2331057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}