Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh: Designing costumes for the Irish screen

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Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh is one of Ireland's leading screen costume designers - working on such productions as The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Jimmy's Hall and the recent, multi award-winning The Banshees of Inisherin. For many years she has also been compiling a collection of iconic items seen on the Irish screen. John Wayne's bowler hat in The Quiet Man; Meryl Streep's 1930's dress from Dancing at Lughnasa; Olivia Colman's Queen Anne gown from The Favourite; Daniel Day-Lewis's Afghan coat and hand-painted clogs from his Oscar nominated performance as Gerry Conlon in Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father. The collection has for years been stored at the Ardmore Film Studios in County Wicklow - Ireland's Hollywood - but recently the local council provided new space for the collection to be housed, where Eimer can continue to have each item photographed to museum standard, allowing the entire collection to be available online for anybody across the world to access, free. We follow Eimer as she oversees the meticulous photographing of her applauded and distinctive knitwear for the Banshees of Inisherin. She takes us on a tour of the unpacked rails of the Archive, remembering productions she has worked on and actors she has worked with - and talks about the art of shaping and presenting costumes for a global audience of film and television fans.