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Early Life
Neillí Mulcahy was an Irish Haute Couturier, and one of the founders of the Irish Haute Couture Group. Neillí Mulcahy was one of Ireland’s leading fashion designers of the 20th century. She is best known for designing the Aer Lingus uniform in 1963.

Mulcahy was born in 1925 to General Richard Mulcahy, former commander in-Chief of the Irish Army, later to become a cabinet minister, and Min Ryan, a Cumann na mBan activist. She grew up in Lissenfield in Rathmines, Dublin. Mulcahy studied Science in University College Dublin but left to attend a course at St. Mary’s College of Domestic Science where she learned about fabrics and dressmaking. She then enrolled at the Grafton Academy of Dress Design where she studied fashion, where she also went on to teach pattern cutting classes later in life. Upon graduation from the Grafton Academy, Neillí studied haute couture for six months in Paris with Jacques Heim.