‘Quiet Man’ actress Maureen O’Hara seen as a feminist icon - VIDEO

Nicely said Zorro986

American audiences have known Maureen O'Hara was a feminine icon for decades; and it wasn't just her swashbucklers (big box office in those days) that projected that persona. She had the ability to bring an equality to her male costars that is unsurpassed in film history. She could engage in fisticuffs and even challenge champion Cornell Wilde in fencing, never for one moment losing her femininity. Prof. Barton is correct about her beauty being uniquely tempered with her athletic prowess and fiery personality which she brought to every role she played. Although Maureen is fiercely proud of her Irish heritage, she was after all, a Hollywood movie star in Hollywood films. She endured the "studio days" and beyond and has emerged as more than just a "feminist icon." She is a beloved, multli-talented beautiful human being whose legacy of timeless classic films are there for all of us...and future generations. It doesn't get much better than that.

I'll always remember the Cork dinner dance of early March, 1985, when Maureen O'Hara sat at the dais with other dignitories, including officials of the Irish consulaste. When it came her turn to speak, she read a poem by Pádraig Pearse titled "The Mothr". By doing so, she probably made the representatives of the Pasrtitionist government a little uncomfortable at a time when Notiionalists in the Northern region of their homland were stronly resisting Britih rule. But those of us who truly love the whole Irish nation were thrilled at this public didplay of patriotism by the famous actress.