'We might call it St Jessie's Day': Oscar winner's family raise the roof back home in Killarney

Jessie Buckley's Academy Award was the toast of Los Angeles — but the Arbutus Hotel in her hometown of Killarney was also buzzing in celebration

Jessie Buckley celebrating her Academy Award for her role in 'Hamnet' at the 'Vanity Fair' Oscars party in Los Angeles late on Sunday night. Meanwhile, there was another huge party 8,600km away in her homeplace of Killarney, Co Kerry. Picture: Amy Sussman/Getty/Vanity Fair

TV cameras gathered at Killarney’s Arbutus Hotel on Monday, with reporters lining up to talk to Jessie Buckley’s family just hours after her historic Oscar win.

Hours earlier, as Buckley became  the first Irish woman to take home the Best Actress Oscar at the 98th Academy Awards ceremony, held in Los Angeles on Sunday night, the "roof almost lifted off" the venue.