Joan O'Hara

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Joan as Eunice in Fair City.

Joan O'Hara (b. October 11, 1930, County Sligo (Irish Times obituary)^{[citation needed]} - d. July 23, 2007, Dublin) was an Irish stage, film and television actress. She performed in many plays in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, including those by Sean O'Casey, Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats. She appeared as 'Maurya' in the 1988 film The Dawning.

More recently, she was best-known for appearing in the popular Irish television soap Fair City, broadcast on RTÉ television. She joined the soap in 1994, and portrayed "Eunice Phelan" until her (O'Hara's) death in 2007.

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Born and raised in County Sligo, the daughter of an officer in the British Corps of Royal Engineers^{[citation needed]}, she went on to live most of her life in Dublin with her husband and three children. She died in Dublin on July 23, 2007 of complications from heart disease, aged 76. Her death was announced on RTÉ News the following day. (RTE obituary).

[edit] Trivia

One of O'Hara's sisters, Mary O'Hara, is a soprano and harpist.
Joan O'Hara attended the same Ursuline convent school as fellow actress (and friend), the late Pauline Flanagan.
Her son is playwright Sebastian Barry, who wrote The Steward of Christendom.