Renewed interest came when a documentary of her life, “Constance Smith, A Hollywood Tragedy,” premiered at the Richard Harris International Film Festival. Constance Smith was not unlike the eponymous Richard Harris, a Limerick native and more specifically, a hellraiser on an epic scale. Constance Smith was born in Limerick in 1928, the eldest of 11 children. Despite 20 years of being homeless, chronic alcoholism, drug abuse, countless suicide attempts, Constance Smith somehow managed to live to the age of 74. But Constance Smith self-immolated.