Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh
Antonia Quirke follows costime designer Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh on her next project
Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh is one of Ireland's leading film and television costume designers - working on productions from Michael Collins to My Left Foot, Normal People to the recent multi-Oscar nominated Banshees of Inisherin. For many years she has 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 shoes from his Oscar nominated performance as Gerry Conlon in Jim Sheridan's film In the Name of the Father. The collection has thus far been stored at the Ardmore Film Studios in County Wicklow - Ireland's Hollywood - but this April the local council has provided a large, dry, air-conditioned space for the collection to be housed in, carefully unpacked and properly archived, and then photographed to museum standard - the entire collection then put online for anybody across the world to access, free.
We follow Eimer as she finishes her latest film in Ireland (starring Anthony Hopkins) and starts on the mammoth project of photographing, shaping and presenting the archive. Her aim is to have it up online for a global audience of film and television fans to see by midsummer.
