Pictures: Cork primary school attended by Cillian Murphy celebrates his Oscar win
Pupils from Louise Barrett’s first class in St Anthony’s boys primary school, Ballinlough, are overjoyed for past pupil, Cillian Murphy on his Oscar Win. Picture by Chani Anderson
Staff at St Anthony’s National School in Ballinlough in Cork were full of pride today after former pupil, Cillian Murphy, became the first Irish born man to win in the ‘Best Actor’ category at the Academy Awards.
Teachers in the school managed to pick up a few balloons bearing the name “Cillian” this morning. The younger pupils were hopping up and down in excitement when a camera crew from RTÉ popped in to film their Oscars celebrations.
Principal Sean Lyons said the boys were giddy with happiness coming through the doors of the school this morning.
The 47-year-old, whose parents Mary and Brendan, live in Ballintemple in the city, attended the school from 1982 to 1988.
The actor, who is best known to the boys for his role in the drama previously filled out a questionnaire for current pupils at the school.
Cillian told the youngsters that he was living in Dublin with his parents for a period before they moved back to his native Cork.
His biggest challenge in his early years at St Anthony’s involved “trying to understand the Cork accent.”
The father of two said he “wasn’t very good at maths” as a youngster and that although both his parents were teachers and his grandfather a headmaster he had never wanted to follow in their footsteps.
He said that he didn’t attend drama classes or have any formal training in acting as a younger man.
“In fact I didn’t have any interest in acting until I was 19. I was much more interested in music and wanted to become a musician during my youth. Then I discovered theatre when I left school after seeing after seeing a production of by Cork theatre company ‘Corcadorca.‘ I was hooked from then on in.”
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