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* OnlySaneWoman: Siobhan is the only character in the film who thinks that ''both'' Pádraic (for not letting Colm's decision go) and Colm (for ending his and Pádraicare's friendship for entirely petty and selfish reasons) are being ridiculous and tries to expand her horizons beyond Inisherin.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: As cruel and petty as his justifications for ending his friendship with Pádraic are, Colm clearly gets to Siobhan when pointing out how soul-crushingly monotonous and unfulfiling life on Inisherin can be. [[spoiler: Unlike Colm and Pádraic however, who ultimately can't bring themselves to escape their misery on Inisherin, Siobhan actually takes steps to improve her situation by leaving the island and starting life anew on the Irish mainland]].
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** No matter the reason for it, Colm ultimately has the right to choose who he will and won't be friends with. Much of the conflict of the film is driven by Pádraic's stubborn refusal to respect Colm's desire to be left alone, [[spoiler: and ultimately ends with both having lost everything over it]].
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** No matter the reason for it, Colm ultimately has the right to choose who he will and won't be friends with. Much of the conflict of the film is driven by Pádraic's stubborn refusal to respect Colm's desire to be left alone, [[spoiler: and ultimately ends with both having lost everything over it]].
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* FatalFlaw: His aversion to bad feelings. Pádraic refuses to see the bad parts of life and discourages others from dealing with ideas or topics that make them sad, as he believes that actually discussing the hard parts of life isn't nice. This leaves him horrifically unprepared for when bad things start happening to him and he winds up [[spoiler: lashing out in violence and anger.]]
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* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Pádraic seems to need to be liked by everyone at all times. When Colm cuts him out of his life, Pádraic can't accept it and spend time with the numerous other people on the island who enjoy his company, he needs to get Colm back specifically because he can't handle not being liked.
* FatalFlaw: His aversion to bad feelings. Pádraic refuses to see the bad parts of life and discourages others from dealing with ideas or topics that make them sad, as he believes that actually discussing the hard parts of life isn't nice. This leaves him horrifically unprepared for when bad things start happening to him and he winds up [[spoiler: lashing out in violence and anger.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: While Pádraic is fully capable of seeing others in pain and doing nice things for them, he never once shows an ability to put himself in other people's shoes. He would rather people hide their personal feelings of suffering than open up to him.
* ThePollyanna: A vicious deconstruction of the character type. Pádraic is always happy, nice, and sees no downsides to life... because he's afraid of confronting his personal feelings of despair, and hopes to use an active social life to keep those feelings at bay. Because of this, he is ill-equipped to deal with anyone in his life having a negative feelings, preferring them to push down their bad feelings like he does. Once he loses all of his social outlets, [[spoiler: he is overpowered by his despair and becomes a miserable jerk like everyone else on the island.]]
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: [[spoiler: Part of her motivation for leaving the island at the end is that she can see Pádraic and Colm's feud will end badly and wants to get out of dodge before it does. She is also afraid of winding up like Colm, old, alone, and unfulfilled.]]
* NiceGuy: Dominic is cheerful, kind, and empathetic towards everyone he meets.
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* DirtyCoward: He seems to target his physical abuse against Dominic and Pádraic, the two people on the island who are too meek and kindhearted respectively to ever stand up to him. [[spoiler: When Colm uses his one functioning hand to knock him out cold near the end of the film, Peadar does nothing in retaliation, instead showing up for church the next day looking meek and sporting a black eye]].
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!!Pádraic Súilleabháin
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ColinFarrell
The protagonist, a farmer who lives on the remote Irish island of Inisherin. He is well-liked by the villagers, though not that bright. When his old friend Colm cuts him off, Pádraic refuses to accept it.
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* BadLiar: Pádraic comes up with a completely transparent lie to get one of Colm's music students, Declan, away from Inisherin, involving the student's father being hit by a bread truck. Due to Declan's naivete, as well as the fact that his ''mother'' died from being hit by a bread truck, he believes it anyway. He also openly admits to being a terrible liar after finding the first finger and not wanting to tell Siobhan what the noise at the door was.
* DespairEventHorizon: Pádraic makes a full swerve into darkness when [[spoiler:he discovers his beloved donkey Jenny choked to death on one of Colm's fingers.]]
* DumbassHasAPoint: Pádraic's rant at Colm at the pub. Despite being drunk off his head on whiskey and stumbling through several points, he successfully calls out Colm for his incredibly petty reasons for ending their friendship, pointing out that the "less dull" company he's now accepting after cutting Pádraic out of his life includes Peadar, a loathsome man who beats [[spoiler: and (maybe) molests]] his son. Colm even acknowledges his point, saying he actually likes Pádraic more after doing it.
* DumbIsGood: Though they're unable to tell him that he's as intellectual as Colm, or intelligent in general, the islanders try to reassure Pádraic that he's "one of life's good guys".
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Pádraic is introduced happily walking through town, greeting passersby, on his way to Colm's house, establishing him as a NiceGuy. There's even [[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows a rainbow in the sky behind him]] to really drive the point home.
* EverybodyHasStandards: [[spoiler:Despite becoming murderously angry at Colm for the accidental killing of Jenny the donkey, Pádraic has no desire to kill Colm's dog, even after Mrs. [=McCormick=] puts the idea in his head. He even warns Colm to keep his dog safe while telling him that he's going to burn his house down.]]
* TheEveryman: Our protagonist Pádraic is terribly mundane and normal.
* HumbleHero: Pádraic is a simple man whose only apparent goals in life seem to be running the modest farm he inherited from his parents and spending time with his friends, sister and animals.
* KindheartedSimpleton: Pádraic is this at the beginning. He's friendly to everyone and seems to be perfectly content with his simple and mundane existence in Inisherin, thinking nothing more beyond his day to day. Colm breaking off his friendship with Pádraic with no explanation and what follows turns him into a much more bitter man.
* {{Manchild}}: This is Pádraic's characterization. He's rather dim, friendly, and weak-willed. He has no love life, seems to want nothing else except to hang around his buddy and pet donkey, and gets childishly spiteful when he's angry.
* NiceGuy: Pádraic starts the movie as this, and it's part of what makes Colm resent him: despite his dullness, he's just so ''nice'' that it's hard to break off their friendship in a normal, healthy way. [[spoiler:Dominic reveals that it's the reason he hangs out with Pádraic so much. When Pádraic reveals that he cruelly tricked a man into thinking his father had been killed by a runaway van just to mess with Colm, Dominic is disgusted with him]].
* TraumaCongaLine: Pádraic, in rapid succession, has to deal with his longtime friend not wanting to be friends with him anymore and coldly rebuffing him whenever he tries to reconcile, his sister leaving Inisherin for a job on the mainland, [[spoiler:his beloved pet donkey dying, and his other friend drowning in the lake, heavily implied to be by suicide]]. It's no wonder he becomes increasingly bitter and closed-off.
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The deuteragonist and Pádraic's old friend. He is a folk musician who wants to compose a song for which he will be remembered.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Colm cuts ties with Pádraic primarily due to this, feeling unfulfilled by their friendship after all the years together and believing he needs to spend his remaining years dedicating himself to his music so that he will compose something that will be remembered after he's gone.
* EverybodyHasStandards: [[spoiler: Colm is horrified at learning that he'd inadvertently caused the death of Jenny. When Peadar arrives and begins to mock Pádraic's grief over Jenny's death, Colm promptly knocks him out cold. Jenny's death and Pádraic declaration of retribution marks the point where Colm begins to regret how far his vendetta has gone.]].
* {{Fingore}}: Colm threatens Pádraic that he will cut off one of his own fingers every time Pádraic tries to talk to him. [[spoiler:He makes good on that threat, five times over.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Colm starts the plot off by deciding he no longer wants to be Pádraic's friend because he's too boring. Siobhan angrily rebukes this by telling him, "You're all [[PrecisionFStrike fecking]] boring!" Depending on how you interpret his character (and in particular his scenes with the priest where talks about how his despair remains even after cutting Pádraic off), it could be determined that Colm was projecting what he didn't like about himself onto Pádraic.
** Similarly, he points to Pádraic's lack of intelligence as another factor in his decision to no longer be friends with him, but the company he keeps afterwards aren't shown to be that much better. The few times he has conversations with Siobhan, the only other person in the film who is intellectually on equal footing with him, Colm struggles to figure out what to discuss beyond small talk about the weather.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As cruel and petty as his justifications for ending his friendship with Pádraic are, Colm clearly gets to Siobhan when pointing out how soul-crushingly monotonous and unfulfiling life on Inisherin can be. [[spoiler: Unlike Colm and Pádraic however, who ultimately can't bring themselves to escape their misery on Inisherin, Siobhan actually takes steps to improve her situation by leaving the island and starting life anew on the Irish mainland]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler: Colm seems to suffer almost no distress from his severed fingers and is sometime seen casually going about his business with the stumps still bleeding.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Colm only begins to regret how far his vendetta with Pádraic has escalated once his actions accidentally cause the death of Pádraic's donkey. Unfortunately for him, Pádraic's declaration of murderous retribution for this makes any chance of reconciliation at that point impossible.]]
* OneLastSong: Though he empathetically says he is ''not'' dying, he is still visibly getting on in years and starts making drastic changes in hopes of being able to compose a memorable tune before he goes.
* ReformedButRejected [[spoiler: Colm eventually realizes the feud has gone too far and tries to mend fences with Pádraic. His attempt is coldly rebuffed, with Pádraic telling him they will never be friends again and the feud will only end when one of them is dead]].
* SelfHarm: Colm warns Pádraic that if he doesn't stop talking to him, he'll cut off one finger every time he does. [[spoiler:He follows through with the threat.]]
* SmallTownBoredom: He feels stifled by the mundanity of life on their remote island and cuts Pádraic off in a misguided attempt to make something of himself.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Colm's attempt to become more intellectual coincides in him becoming more unpleasant.
* WickedPretentious: Colm thinks of himself as a great intellectual and artist whose mind is well above those of the other Inisherin residents, bar Siobhan. Siobhan doesn't agree, telling Colm he's just as "boring" as Pádraic and the others are and also corrects him about a claim he made about Mozart at the pub.
!! Siobhán Súilleabháin
->'''Played by:''' Creator/KerryCondon
Pádraic's intelligent and sensible sister, whom he lives with on their family farm.
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* {{Bookworm}}: She is one of the most intellectual women on Inisherin. She has a pointed love of reading and is seen reading books in several scenes. [[spoiler:She is able to utilize this to leave the island for a librarian job on the mainland, only upset that she can't take her books with her.]]
* OnlySaneWoman: Siobhan is the only character in the film who thinks that ''both'' Pádraic (for not letting Colm's decision go) and Colm (for ending his and Pádraicare's friendship for entirely petty and selfish reasons) are being ridiculous and tries to expand her horizons beyond Inisherin.
* SmallTownBoredom: Like Colm, she feels stifled and unfulfilled with life on their remote island, [[spoiler:but unlike him, she is able to leave it.]]
!!Dominic Kearney
->'''Played by:''' Creator/BarryKeoghan
A local boy who is being abused by his father.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:It's ambiguous whether Dominic really did slip and drown as Mrs. [=McCormick=] said or if he killed himself after being disillusioned by Pádraic's growing cruelty and Sioban's romantic rejection of him.]]
* KindheartedSimpleton: He's less intelligent than the "dull" protagonist Pádraic, but is trusting and naive to the point of silliness.
* NoSocialSkills: Dominic, out of some combination of drunkenness, a terrible upbringing, and a mental disability, is awkward and blunt whenever he talks.
!!Peadar Kearney
->'''Played by:''' Creator/GaryLydon
The abusive local Garda (policeman) of Inisherin.
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* AbusiveParents: Peadar beats his son Dominic almost every night, and it's an open secret around the island. [[spoiler: At one point, Pádraic accuses him of sexually molesting his son as well, it's never confirmed but both Peadar and Dominic's reaction to this suggestion imply it's true]].
* TheBadGuysAreCops: Peadar is a police officer and the most despicable person on Inisherin, and openly [[CorruptCop beats people, including his own son]] with impunity.
* HateSink: Peadar -- an abusive, drunkard cop and father -- is one of the few characters with absolutely no redeeming qualities.
* KickTheDog: Peadar is established as a jerk when he ignores Pádraic's friendly greeting, and Pádraic gripes under his breath that the constable in fact ''always'' ignores his greetings.
* MaleFrontalNudity: Apparently, Peadar likes to sleep in his rocking chair completely naked, which both Pádraic and the audience [[FanDisservice have the pleasure of seeing]].
!!Mrs. [=McCormack=]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/SheilaFlitton
A mysterious old woman who portends doom.
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* EvilOldFolks: Evil might be too extreme, but Mrs. [=McCormick=] seems to enjoy the suffering that goes on around her to an extent. She even tries to put the idea of [[spoiler:killing Colm's dog in Pádraic's head when he is going to burn Colm's house down. Even as angry as he is at Colm, he's completely put off by the idea.]] Then there's the ambiguity of whether she is a banshee or not. Colm speculates that if banshees are real, maybe they don't shriek and portend death anymore, maybe they just sit back and watch in amusement. This certainly would fit Mrs. [=McCormick=].
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is she just a creepy old lady (and the tragedies she predicts coincidental or inevitable), psychic in some way, a witch, or is she truly a banshee like the kind Colm talks about? The film never clarifies.
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!!Pádraic Súilleabháin
->'''Played by:''' Creator/ColinFarrell
The protagonist, a farmer who lives on the remote Irish island of Inisherin. He is well-liked by the villagers, though not that bright. When his old friend Colm cuts him off, Pádraic refuses to accept it.
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* BadLiar: Pádraic comes up with a completely transparent lie to get one of Colm's music students, Declan, away from Inisherin, involving the student's father being hit by a bread truck. Due to Declan's naivete, as well as the fact that his ''mother'' died from being hit by a bread truck, he believes it anyway. He also openly admits to being a terrible liar after finding the first finger and not wanting to tell Siobhan what the noise at the door was.
* DespairEventHorizon: Pádraic makes a full swerve into darkness when [[spoiler:he discovers his beloved donkey Jenny choked to death on one of Colm's fingers.]]
* DumbassHasAPoint: Pádraic's rant at Colm at the pub. Despite being drunk off his head on whiskey and stumbling through several points, he successfully calls out Colm for his incredibly petty reasons for ending their friendship, pointing out that the "less dull" company he's now accepting after cutting Pádraic out of his life includes Peadar, a loathsome man who beats [[spoiler: and (maybe) molests]] his son. Colm even acknowledges his point, saying he actually likes Pádraic more after doing it.
* DumbIsGood: Though they're unable to tell him that he's as intellectual as Colm, or intelligent in general, the islanders try to reassure Pádraic that he's "one of life's good guys".
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Pádraic is introduced happily walking through town, greeting passersby, on his way to Colm's house, establishing him as a NiceGuy. There's even [[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows a rainbow in the sky behind him]] to really drive the point home.
* EverybodyHasStandards: [[spoiler:Despite becoming murderously angry at Colm for the accidental killing of Jenny the donkey, Pádraic has no desire to kill Colm's dog, even after Mrs. [=McCormick=] puts the idea in his head. He even warns Colm to keep his dog safe while telling him that he's going to burn his house down.]]
* TheEveryman: Our protagonist Pádraic is terribly mundane and normal.
* HumbleHero: Pádraic is a simple man whose only apparent goals in life seem to be running the modest farm he inherited from his parents and spending time with his friends, sister and animals.
* KindheartedSimpleton: Pádraic is this at the beginning. He's friendly to everyone and seems to be perfectly content with his simple and mundane existence in Inisherin, thinking nothing more beyond his day to day. Colm breaking off his friendship with Pádraic with no explanation and what follows turns him into a much more bitter man.
* {{Manchild}}: This is Pádraic's characterization. He's rather dim, friendly, and weak-willed. He has no love life, seems to want nothing else except to hang around his buddy and pet donkey, and gets childishly spiteful when he's angry.
* NiceGuy: Pádraic starts the movie as this, and it's part of what makes Colm resent him: despite his dullness, he's just so ''nice'' that it's hard to break off their friendship in a normal, healthy way. [[spoiler:Dominic reveals that it's the reason he hangs out with Pádraic so much. When Pádraic reveals that he cruelly tricked a man into thinking his father had been killed by a runaway van just to mess with Colm, Dominic is disgusted with him]].
* TraumaCongaLine: Pádraic, in rapid succession, has to deal with his longtime friend not wanting to be friends with him anymore and coldly rebuffing him whenever he tries to reconcile, his sister leaving Inisherin for a job on the mainland, [[spoiler:his beloved pet donkey dying, and his other friend drowning in the lake, heavily implied to be by suicide]]. It's no wonder he becomes increasingly bitter and closed-off.
!!Colm Doherty
->'''Played by:''' Creator/BrendanGleeson
The deuteragonist and Pádraic's old friend. He is a folk musician who wants to compose a song for which he will be remembered.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Colm cuts ties with Pádraic primarily due to this, feeling unfulfilled by their friendship after all the years together and believing he needs to spend his remaining years dedicating himself to his music so that he will compose something that will be remembered after he's gone.
* EverybodyHasStandards: [[spoiler: Colm is horrified at learning that he'd inadvertently caused the death of Jenny. When Peadar arrives and begins to mock Pádraic's grief over Jenny's death, Colm promptly knocks him out cold. Jenny's death and Pádraic declaration of retribution marks the point where Colm begins to regret how far his vendetta has gone.]].
* {{Fingore}}: Colm threatens Pádraic that he will cut off one of his own fingers every time Pádraic tries to talk to him. [[spoiler:He makes good on that threat, five times over.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Colm starts the plot off by deciding he no longer wants to be Pádraic's friend because he's too boring. Siobhan angrily rebukes this by telling him, "You're all [[PrecisionFStrike fecking]] boring!" Depending on how you interpret his character (and in particular his scenes with the priest where talks about how his despair remains even after cutting Pádraic off), it could be determined that Colm was projecting what he didn't like about himself onto Pádraic.
** Similarly, he points to Pádraic's lack of intelligence as another factor in his decision to no longer be friends with him, but the company he keeps afterwards aren't shown to be that much better. The few times he has conversations with Siobhan, the only other person in the film who is intellectually on equal footing with him, Colm struggles to figure out what to discuss beyond small talk about the weather.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As cruel and petty as his justifications for ending his friendship with Pádraic are, Colm clearly gets to Siobhan when pointing out how soul-crushingly monotonous and unfulfiling life on Inisherin can be. [[spoiler: Unlike Colm and Pádraic however, who ultimately can't bring themselves to escape their misery on Inisherin, Siobhan actually takes steps to improve her situation by leaving the island and starting life anew on the Irish mainland]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler: Colm seems to suffer almost no distress from his severed fingers and is sometime seen casually going about his business with the stumps still bleeding.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: Colm only begins to regret how far his vendetta with Pádraic has escalated once his actions accidentally cause the death of Pádraic's donkey. Unfortunately for him, Pádraic's declaration of murderous retribution for this makes any chance of reconciliation at that point impossible.]]
* OneLastSong: Though he empathetically says he is ''not'' dying, he is still visibly getting on in years and starts making drastic changes in hopes of being able to compose a memorable tune before he goes.
* ReformedButRejected [[spoiler: Colm eventually realizes the feud has gone too far and tries to mend fences with Pádraic. His attempt is coldly rebuffed, with Pádraic telling him they will never be friends again and the feud will only end when one of them is dead]].
* SelfHarm: Colm warns Pádraic that if he doesn't stop talking to him, he'll cut off one finger every time he does. [[spoiler:He follows through with the threat.]]
* SmallTownBoredom: He feels stifled by the mundanity of life on their remote island and cuts Pádraic off in a misguided attempt to make something of himself.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Colm's attempt to become more intellectual coincides in him becoming more unpleasant.
* WickedPretentious: Colm thinks of himself as a great intellectual and artist whose mind is well above those of the other Inisherin residents, bar Siobhan. Siobhan doesn't agree, telling Colm he's just as "boring" as Pádraic and the others are and also corrects him about a claim he made about Mozart at the pub.
!! Siobhán Súilleabháin
->'''Played by:''' Creator/KerryCondon
Pádraic's intelligent and sensible sister, whom he lives with on their family farm.
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* {{Bookworm}}: She is one of the most intellectual women on Inisherin. She has a pointed love of reading and is seen reading books in several scenes. [[spoiler:She is able to utilize this to leave the island for a librarian job on the mainland, only upset that she can't take her books with her.]]
* OnlySaneWoman: Siobhan is the only character in the film who thinks that ''both'' Pádraic (for not letting Colm's decision go) and Colm (for ending his and Pádraicare's friendship for entirely petty and selfish reasons) are being ridiculous and tries to expand her horizons beyond Inisherin.
* SmallTownBoredom: Like Colm, she feels stifled and unfulfilled with life on their remote island, [[spoiler:but unlike him, she is able to leave it.]]
!!Dominic Kearney
->'''Played by:''' Creator/BarryKeoghan
A local boy who is being abused by his father.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:It's ambiguous whether Dominic really did slip and drown as Mrs. [=McCormick=] said or if he killed himself after being disillusioned by Pádraic's growing cruelty and Sioban's romantic rejection of him.]]
* KindheartedSimpleton: He's less intelligent than the "dull" protagonist Pádraic, but is trusting and naive to the point of silliness.
* NoSocialSkills: Dominic, out of some combination of drunkenness, a terrible upbringing, and a mental disability, is awkward and blunt whenever he talks.
!!Peadar Kearney
->'''Played by:''' Creator/GaryLydon
The abusive local Garda (policeman) of Inisherin.
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* AbusiveParents: Peadar beats his son Dominic almost every night, and it's an open secret around the island. [[spoiler: At one point, Pádraic accuses him of sexually molesting his son as well, it's never confirmed but both Peadar and Dominic's reaction to this suggestion imply it's true]].
* TheBadGuysAreCops: Peadar is a police officer and the most despicable person on Inisherin, and openly [[CorruptCop beats people, including his own son]] with impunity.
* HateSink: Peadar -- an abusive, drunkard cop and father -- is one of the few characters with absolutely no redeeming qualities.
* KickTheDog: Peadar is established as a jerk when he ignores Pádraic's friendly greeting, and Pádraic gripes under his breath that the constable in fact ''always'' ignores his greetings.
* MaleFrontalNudity: Apparently, Peadar likes to sleep in his rocking chair completely naked, which both Pádraic and the audience [[FanDisservice have the pleasure of seeing]].
!!Mrs. [=McCormack=]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/SheilaFlitton
A mysterious old woman who portends doom.
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* EvilOldFolks: Evil might be too extreme, but Mrs. [=McCormick=] seems to enjoy the suffering that goes on around her to an extent. She even tries to put the idea of [[spoiler:killing Colm's dog in Pádraic's head when he is going to burn Colm's house down. Even as angry as he is at Colm, he's completely put off by the idea.]] Then there's the ambiguity of whether she is a banshee or not. Colm speculates that if banshees are real, maybe they don't shriek and portend death anymore, maybe they just sit back and watch in amusement. This certainly would fit Mrs. [=McCormick=].
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is she just a creepy old lady (and the tragedies she predicts coincidental or inevitable), psychic in some way, a witch, or is she truly a banshee like the kind Colm talks about? The film never clarifies.
