The Banshees of Inisherin2022

Pádraic Súilleabháin:
Do you know what you used to be?

Colm Doherty:
No, what did I used to be?

Pádraic Súilleabháin:
Nice! You used to be nice! And now, do you know what you are? Not nice.

Colm Doherty:
Ah, well, I suppose niceness doesn't last then, does it? But will I tell ya something that does last?

Pádraic Súilleabháin:
What? And don't say somethin' stupid like music.

Colm Doherty:
Music lasts.

Pádraic Súilleabháin:
Knew it!

Colm Doherty:
And paintings last. And poetry lasts.

Pádraic Súilleabháin:
So does niceness.

Colm Doherty:
Do you know who we remember for how nice they was in the 17th century?

Pádraic Súilleabháin:
Who?

Colm Doherty:
Absolutely no one. Yet we all remember the music of the time. Everyone, to a man, knows Mozart's name.

Pádraic Súilleabháin:
Well, I don't, so there goes that theory. And anyway, we're talkin' about niceness. Not what's his name. My mammy, she was nice. I remember her. And my daddy, he was nice. I remember him. And my sister, she's nice. I'll remember her. Forever I'll remember her.

Colm Doherty:
And who else will?

Pádraic Súilleabháin:
Who else will what?

Colm Doherty:
Remember Siobhan and your niceness? No one will. In 50 years' time, no one will remember any of us. Yet the music of a man who lived two centuries ago...