Recommended Citation
Lonergan, P (2012) 'I Do Repent and Yet I Do Despair: Beckettian and Faustian Allusions in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer and Mark O'Rowe's Terminus'. Anq-A Quarterly Journal Of Short Articles Notes And Reviews, 25 :24-30.
Abstract
In a press interview in April 2007, Conor McPherson correctly anticipated the
imminent conclusion of the ‘Celtic Tiger’ period – the decade-long economic
boom that had transformed Ireland into one of the world’s richest countries.1
‘We’re not comfortable with success in this country,’ he claimed. ’It’s posttraumatic
stress from our colonial past or whatever. As Irish people, we’re not
able to celebrate what’s good about Ireland. Ireland is going to get back to
what it knows now – hardship. That’s where we’re more comfortable. We can’t
wait for it to start.’ (qtd in O’Regan)