Cillian Murphy’s childhood school is ‘super proud’ of him, declares ‘no homework day’ as he wins first Oscar.

Cillian Murphy won the coveted Best Actor Oscar for Oppenheimer and his alma mater could not be more proud.There was a whiff of Hollywood glamour in the air on Monday at St. Anthony’s, a primary school in the Irish city of Cork that counts Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy as a past pupil.The day after Murphy won his first Oscar — Best Actor for his role in Oppenheimer — staff, parents, and children at his former school were basking in his success.“When we woke up this morning there was such a buzz of excitement,” Sean Lyons, principal of the all-boys Catholic school, told AFP.The 47-year-old Murphy was a pupil at St. Anthony’s, in the tidy Cork neighbourhood of Ballinlough, between 1982 and 1988.He won his first Oscar Sunday for his portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the US physicist who masterminded the atomic bomb, capping a glittering awards season that saw him snare a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and other prizes.“We thought can this be real, that this man from Ballinlough in Cork actually won the Oscar, a global award!” said the beaming bespectacled teacher.“He has set the seed now for many students not just here in Ballinlough and St Anthony’s but all around Ireland that they can achieve on the global stage,” said Lyons.