For many, if they think of the word ‘seanchaí’ — Irish for ‘storyteller’ — an image of an old man in a flat cap, sitting by a open fire and
“We’ve had Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott speaking at our events,” he says. “They may have done extraordinary things, but they’re ordinary people, just like anyone else who gets up and tells their story — they get up in the morning, they go to bed at night, they cry, they eat, they sleep, they have sex, everything that’s part of the human experience.
“I think that’s something that Covid did,” he adds. “It stripped people down to their core, a reminder that everyone has emotions, stuff going on. They’re part of that term I like — sonder — where every single person has just as complicated a life as your own.”
