"I’d been trying really hard for so long to connect with audiences, and then suddenly it happened in Ireland," David says. Photo: Derrick Santini
Skellig, of course, is a reference to Skellig Michael, the much-mythologised pyramid-shaped island off the coast of Kerry that recently found global fame thanks to its use in one of the
Star Wars films. Gray has not yet set foot upon the island — a home for hermit monks for centuries — but he intends to, one day.
“When all this [the pandemic] is over,” he says, “I’d hope to be able to go there, but I know it’s not the easiest place to get to.