A self-described introvert - who says she took up acting to help with her acute shyness - the embrace of the coastline of Dublin Bay comforts her.
"There's something very magical and very spiritual in Ireland. The nature is very particular here and there are forces," she tells me in her very quiet voice. It's a statement befitting of Vanessa Ives, the mysterious clairvoyant that Eva plays in supernatural TV series Penny Dreadful.