Producer and composer Enda Gallery: ‘We didn’t know Normal People was going to be so big’

The Kildare music man tells of the song’s inspiration and getting the shy Strange Boy on board

Enda Gallery at work. Photo: Myriam Riand

Barry Egan

Paul Mescal as Connell Waldron in Normal People (the BBC’s television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel by the same name, with Dublin’s Element Pictures) made a star of the young actor from Maynooth.

The series also brought to international attention the Kildare producer and composer Enda Gallery and Limerick rapper Strange Boy with It’s Alright in 2020.