Vintage View: Maureen O’Hara and John Ford’s fictional Inisfree

Kya deLongchamps takes a look at the work of the late, great Maureen O’Hara and John Ford’s fictional Inisfree — ‘another name for Heaven’. 

This year one of the last great stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Maureen O’Hara (Fitzsimons) passed away at the age of 95.

A transcendent Irish beauty to the end, she made over 60 matinee crowd-pleasers over 40 years alongside legends of stage and screen. These included Charles Laughton (an early and unexpected champion of her career), Tyrone Power; Rex Harrison and Douglas Fairbanks Jnr.