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Weekly Comment:
Watch This Archive Footage of Maureen O’Hara’s Academy Awards Surprise

By Irish America Staff
June 23, 2017

June 23, 2017 by By Irish America Staff<br/>June 23, 2017 Leave a Comment

Maureen O’Hara has heard a banshee, played camogie, and more from a 1957 episode of “This Is Your Life.” ℘℘℘ At the 1957 Academy Awards TV host Ralph Edwards surprised Maureen O’Hara mid-way through an interview about her upcoming film The Wings of Eagles. But it turns out that the interview itself was staged and the whole thing was a gambit to get O’Hara back to his studio for … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Watch This Archive Footage of Maureen O’Hara’s Academy Awards Surprise

November 26, 1885

Thomas Andrews, Northern Irish chemist and physicist, died on this day in 1885 in Belfast. Andrews spent extensive time in school. He first attended the Belfast Academy and then the Royal Belfast Academical Institute, where he studied mathematics. In 1828, he went on to University of Glasgow to study chemistry, then Trinity College Dublin for classics with a distinction in science, and finally University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a doctorate of medicine. He did his most important work as a professor of Chemistry at Queen’s University of Belfast, where he demonstrated the phase transitions between gases and liquids, and carried out a complete inquiry into the gas laws.

Weekly Comment:
Watch This Archive Footage of Maureen O’Hara’s Academy Awards Surprise

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