Jessie Buckley wins Best Actress at the Oscars

Jessie Buckley has won Best Actress at the Oscars.

The Killarney actor won for her role in Hamnet, in which she played William Shakespeare’s wife Agnes, starring alongside Paul Mescal.

Buckley becomes the first Irish woman to win Best Actress at the Oscars, and it marks a clean sweep of the awards season for her.

The ceremony took place overnight in the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Jessie Buckley said this is her greatest honour.

Celebrations took place in the Arbutus Hotel at a private gathering hosted by the Buckley family in Killarney. Jessie's aunts, uncles and first cousins, her Godfather Sean Buckley, 3rd left, (3rd generation owner of the Arbutus Hotel & Buckley's Bar), Her uncles Mike Fuller, Kieran Kavanagh, Jessie's aunts, Mary Fuller, Una Kavanagh and Carol Dempsey and first cousins celebrating . Photo: Valerie O'Sullivan

Her family and friends watched on in Buckley's at the Arbutus Hotel, which is run by her family; this was the reaction there as her name was called out.