As a child, McDonagh spent regular periods in his parents’ home counties. “Even as a kid, I thought capturing this in photographs seemed like it could be interesting to me. So when you get into a position of knowing you’re going to make an Irish film, you have a catalogue of all the most beautiful places in your head. The Aran Islands were uppermost,” says McDonagh, 52. 

In the behind-the-scenes featurette, Martin McDonagh says, “What we wanted to capture in the film was the beauty of Ireland and the cinema of it. We just wanted to make one of the most beautiful Irish films we could possibly make.”

Filming on Inis Mór took place largely at Gort na gCapall and Bungowla, however, there were also some scenes shot at Dún Aonghasa and in Iaraine.

The film crew were very fortunate with the good weather they got in the summer of 2021 which led to McDonagh pivoting his production to make the most of the big western skies. “We got the most beautiful weather and we tried to structure the schedule so that we could capture that. We built places where you could film inside but if it was a beautiful day you can just run outside and do the outside scenes with ten minutes’ notice. That’s why we’ve got so many sunset shots and so many scenic shots that look beautiful at magic hour.”

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