Maureen O’Hara Lived In Ireland For 40 Years After Hollywood

Actress Maureen O’Hara was born Maureen FitzSimons in Ranelagh, County Dublin, Ireland in 1920. The Irish beauty went on to become one of the most famous faces in Hollywood. She was best known for her roles in Miracle on 34th Street, John Ford’s The Quiet Man with John Wayne, Hunchback Of Notre Dame, How Green Was My Valley, and her last film, The Red Pony with Henry Fonda. She retired in 1973.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, O’Hara spent four decades in Glengarriff, Ireland before moving to Idaho in 2013 “to be closer to her relatives.” Maureen O’Hara died there on October 24. She was 95.