After Big Oscar Win, Cillian Murphy's Cork School Declares Homework-Free Day
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Cillian Murphy was a student at St. Anthony's, in the Cork neighbourhood of Ballinlough, between 1982 and 1988
There was a whiff of Hollywood glamour in the air on Monday at St. Anthony's, a primary school in the Irish city of Cork that counts Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy as a past pupil. The day after Murphy won his first Oscar - Best Actor for his role in Oppenheimer - staff, parents, and children at his former school were basking in his success. "When we woke up this morning there was such a buzz of excitement," Sean Lyons, principal of the all-boys Catholic school, told AFP.
The 47-year-old Murphy was a pupil at St. Anthony's, in the tidy Cork neighbourhood of Ballinlough, between 1982 and 1988.
He won his first Oscar Sunday for his portrayal of J Robert Oppenheimer, the US physicist who masterminded the atomic bomb, capping a glittering awards season that saw him snare a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and other prizes.
