Lifetime of Maureen O’Hara’s belongings fetch €420k

Maureen O’Hara’s legacy as one of the most famous stars of Hollywood’s golden era has been further cemented, after an auction of the late actress’s personal belongings sold for almost €420,000.

A cache of secret love letters which were sent to The Quiet Man star by the movie’s director John Ford proved the top attraction, selling for more than €70,000.

Almost all of the intimate, never-before-seen, letters which an infatuated Ford wrote in the months before filming of the award- winning 1951 classic in Co Mayo, were still in their original envelopes.