The banshee is rooted in the history of McQueen, but it’s also a story that I grew up with, so feels deeply personal to me — something I remember my mother talking about in Ireland, describing the cry of this solitary, foreboding figure. For me, she has come to represent something real and potent now.The idea of someone who is feeling and forthright; someone who can be seen as a guiding force.’
‘The banshee is rooted in the history of McQueen,
but it’s also a story that I grew up with, so feels deeply
personal to me — something I remember my
mother talking about in Ireland, describing the cry
of this solitary, foreboding figure. For me, she has come
to represent something real and potent now. The idea
of someone who is feeling and forthright; someone
who can be seen as a guiding force.’
Seán McGirr
