Cloch le Carn looks back at the life and times of David Kelly through the eyes of those who know him best including his son and daughter David and Miriam, as well as colleagues and friends Niall Tóibín, Maureen Toal, Mary McEvoy and Alan Stanford. In February 2012, David Kelly, one of Ireland’s most charismatic, versatile and iconic actors died, at the age of 82, after a short illness. He left behind a body of work that will be long remembered in film, television, radio and on stage and was proud of the fact that he never retired. He was a dapper dresser who always wore a bow-tie and said that denim was “the work of the devil”. Cloch le Carn looks back at the life and times of David Kelly through the eyes of those who know him best including his son and daughter David and Miriam, as well as colleagues and friends Niall Tóibín, Maureen Toal, Mary McEvoy and Alan Stanford. Although David trained as a calligrapher and draughtsman his first love was the stage and he cut his teeth at the Abbey School of Acting. He was a regular on all the major stages of Dublin throughout the 1940s and ‘50s and it was while working at the Pike Theatre that he met fellow actress Laurie Morton who was later to become his wife of over 50 years and with whom he had 2 children. David gained early attention in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape which he performed on the Abbey stage in 1959. He revived this role for a performance that lit up the Gate’s first Beckett Festival in 1991. The dawning of the television era in Ireland meant that David’s versatility as an actor had a new platform and he appeared in lots of dramas and plays throughout the 1960’s on RTÉ. But it was on British TV screens that he really made his mark, starring opposite Milo O’Shea in Me Mammy, appearing as the hapless builder O’Reilly in an iconic episode of Fawlty Towers and then playing the part of Albert Riddle, the one-armed kitchen hand in the successful ITV sitcom Robin’s Nes