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THERE WAS SOME confusion yesterday regarding the nominees for best actress at this year’s Oscars award ceremony, with its official website omitting Irish actress Ruth Negga and including Amy Adams instead.
Despite being included in the list of nominees at the official announcement, the official Oscars website listed Amy Adams for the film Arrival, instead of Negga for her role in Loving.
That wasn’t the only major error included on the website, with Tom Hanks also listed in the best actor category even though he hadn’t actually been nominated.
ABC Digital held its hands up for making the error, and issued a statement of apology, after rectifying the mistake.
They said: “This morning, in an attempt to release breaking news as announced, ABC Digital briefly posted inaccurate nomination information on the Oscar.com website.
“The nominees announced by the Academy on Twitter were accurate. ABC quickly identified and corrected the errors. We apologise to the Academy, press and fans for any confusion.”
Despite this hiccup, the family of Ruth Negga in Limerick were in celebratory mood following her nomination yesterday.
Her uncle Ger Malone said: “We’re all delighted for her. There is pride in all the family here in Dooradoyle, and we’ll probably have a glass of something to celebrate.
We’re all absolutely so proud of her. WhatsApp is whopping away now in the family group, from as far away as Australia; she’s a cousin in Australia, she’s cousins in Canada, and she’s obviously cousins here at home.
Along with Negga’s nomination, there’ll be plenty of Irish interest at this year’s Oscars.
Irish-made film The Lobster, filmed in areas such as west Dublin and Kerry, has got a nod for best screenplay.
Ed Guiney from Element Pictures, which produced the film, spoke of his delight at the news.
Guiney told Ray D’Arcy on RTÉ Radio One: “One of the things that stands out about the movie is the script. To get an Oscar nomination one year is outstanding, to get it two times in a row is mind-boggling.”
Irish costume designer Consolata Boyle, who has been nominated before for The Queen, is up for another award this year for her work on 1940s film Florence Foster Jenkins.
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Aoife the National Library of Ireland have a great page on Flickr where they post old images for identification purposes. It started slowly a few years ago and now they have garnered a great crew of historians, photo nerds and genuine amateur investigators who go to all lengths to ID people, places etc etc. Can’t remember the admins name but she is great, I think this angle may help Age Action!
The Flickr page is
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/
They are great and I’m sure they or the people who comment on their posts could help or will know people who can.
That is not military.. It is St John Ambulance
Exactly what I was thinking!
Love the Third photo. Welcome to Sister Immaculate Airlines.
Those were the days when a slab of toffee was 2 6′ and a litre of milk was a pint.
The term sky pilot springs to mind at photo #3, but does it refer to priests only? Curious. They look like Loreto nuns.
I have to agree with an earlier comment which said that the sister on the far right looks like aongus mac anally!
Lovely to see the compositors at work in photo 1……all done by computer now. In relation to this photo I would suggest Age Action contact The National Print Museum, Beggar’s Bush. Plenty people there to help with identifying the photo – they may have related material in their archives. Good luck with it.
Jaysus…..the women at work in photos 1 and 2 weren’t up to much….wonder what the chat was at the water cooler….while the “brides of Christ ” was a major career high versus the ” trolley dollies” of the airlines.
“The favourite daughter would become an air hostess and then the idiot brother would be sent off to the priesthood.”
They’re fantastic photos though, in fairness. It would be some savage blasht from the pasht if somebody recognised their grandparents in these!
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