Was this the first ever shout out to an Irish mammy at a major Hollywood awards ceremony?
We can’t remember there being too many in the past, but regardless of whether it was or not, Saoirse Ronan, nor her mother, Monica, will forget the 2018 Golden Globe Awards in a hurry.
Saoirse had been touted as a potential winner in the build-up to the ceremony and so it proved on Sunday night as she came away with the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for her role as a high-school student in the coming-of-age movie Ladybird.
You can see the list of winners in full
here.
As big a deal as the award is in itself, when you consider the competition she faced on the night – Emma Stone, Margot Robbie, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren – it really brings home the scale of the achievement.
Due to time constraints, Saoirse was limited in what she could say in her acceptance speech but she did give a shout out to her mother watching “on Facetime over there on someone’s phone right now” as well as some of the important women in her life, all her family and friends and everyone in the room at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills.
Check out the acceptance speech below.
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