A look at how Sybil Connolly, raised in Ireland, shook up the American fashion market in the mid-20th century. Profile courtesy of the Women's Museum of Ireland. She was the first Irish woman to have the international world of fashion falling at her feet.
Maureen’s discovery by famed English actor, Charles Laughton, when she was a 17-year-old student at the Abbey, is legendary, and led to her fairytale introduction to Hollywood