Suzanne Harrington: I love Cillian Murphy, but hate the glorification of the bombs

"There is no mention of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission in 1939; without her, there’d have been no Manhattan Project. Instead we have the alcoholic wife and the suicidal lover."

Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer.

Move over St Patrick, and make way for St Cillian, creator of an atomic-level afterglow in which we’ve all been basking since that middle of the night moment when Brendan Fraser read his name aloud to a roomful of talented show-offs.

Since then, we’ve all been subsumed in an absurdly joyful sense of pride, as heartwarmed as if we had all somehow been personally involved.