Ireland mirrors worldwide YouTube search for 'how to sew a face mask' over 12 months. Government of Ireland and HSE (as of May 2020) don't require public mask wearing unlike some other regions of the world.
Masks made by and for people in Direct Provision with Social Enterprise We Make Good
Collective of home sewists volunteering to make masks for frontline workers. Organised through Facebook groups
Facebook group of home sewists creating masks for hard hit Navajo Native American first responders in the United States
RasR is an Irish company now making masks with recycled ocean plastics
Irish designer Helen Cody demonstrates how to make a mask
Professor Luke O'Neil, TCD immunologist tweeted an image of himself wearing a chemistry-themed fabric face mask made by Lauren O'Grady. She is a 13 year-old Irish sewist donating masks for those who need them.
'Garrett Benisch and Elizabeth Bridges of Sum Studio created a mask, called the “Xylinum mask,” out of bacterial cellulose.' Essentially, the mask is made from a kombucha scoby (symbiotic community of bacteria and yeasts).