Peter O'Brien

I was the only boy who did art in the inter, now junior cert.

I used to draw kind of a withered banana and a shriveled apple every Wednesday afternoon in the school hall in O'Connells.

And I did art for my junior cert.

No, you're not, and I'll get beaten up if I say, but I think most people know what I draw.

I tend not to draw guns and warriors and soldiers.

They tend to be ladies in posh frocks, so there's a slight hint there.

Well, I haven't really done fashion for a while.

I came back from Paris 20 years ago and then I got involved.

I did a lot of theatre costume design.

And then I stepped in for Eamon Eamon Aldonic, who was teaching out at IADT, teaching costume design.

She said, you know, I'm working on a film.

Would you do it for me for a month or so?

And 12 years later, I'm still doing it.

I'm still teaching.

I love it.

Why?

What's that about teaching?

I think there's a wonderful sense of possibility that young people have.

I think

like acting you can't phone it in they know if you're cheating them um and alan bennett says you know the history boys you have to pass the parcel and my field of knowledge is quite deep but it's quite narrow and i think it's kind of useful to kids going into costume design so if they pick it up and run with it it makes you you feel great you know it's great and they keep you on your toes