Barry Keoghan: Dominic Kearney

The Banshees of Inisherin

Dominic Kearney

Dominic Kearney: Howdo!
Siobhan Súilleabháin: Jesus Christ, Dominic! Would you ever stop creeping up on people? You almost gave me a fecking heart attack!
Dominic Kearney: I wasn't creeping up on ya. I was sliding up on ya.
Siobhan Súilleabháin: Between you and that ghoul, Jesus!
Dominic Kearney: I always call her a ghoul, too, because she is a ghoul. Jeez, we have a lot in common, don't we? Me and you. Calling old people ghouls and that. It's a great old lake, isn't it? I'm glad I caught you, actually. Because there was somethin' I was wantin' to ask ya, actually. And discovering how much we have in common... well, it just makes me want to ask you even more.
Siobhan Súilleabháin: We don't have anything in common.
Dominic Kearney: Don't skip ahead. But yeah, what I was wantin' to ask you was... Somethin' along the lines of... Should've planned this, really. Well, yeah, what I was wantin' to ask you was... You probably wouldn't ever want to, I don't know... to fall in love with a boy like me, would ya?
Siobhan Súilleabháin: Dominic, I don't think so, love.
Dominic Kearney: No, yeah, no. I was thinking no. Not even in the future, like? Like when I'm your age?
[she nods negatively]
Dominic Kearney: Yeah, no, I didn't think so. Just thought I'd ask on the off chance, you know... like "faint heart" and that. Well, there goes that dream. Well... I best go over there and do whatever that thing over there I was gonna do was.

Dominic Kearney: Look at this I found. A stick with a hook. What would you use it for, I wonder. To hook things that are the length of a stick away?

Pádraic Súilleabháin: So you'd rather be friends with this fella, would ya? A fella who beats his own son black and blue every night that's he's not fiddling with him.
Dominic Kearney: I never told him that, daddy. He's just drunk now.

Pádraic Súilleabháin: I don't like to be chatting about these types of things, Dominic!
Dominic Kearney: What types of things?
Pádraic Súilleabháin: Sisters with no clothes on!
Dominic Kearney: You saw my daddy with no clothes on.
Pádraic Súilleabháin: Till the day I die, I wish I hadn't.
Dominic Kearney: Sure, don't I know it.

Pádraic Súilleabháin: What the hell was he hittin' you with?
Dominic Kearney: A kettle was the final thing. I wouldn't minded, but for the spout.

Dominic Kearney: I used to think you were the nicest of them. Turns out you're just the same as them.
Pádraic Súilleabháin: I am the nicest of them.

Dominic Kearney: Was you never wild?
Siobhan Súilleabháin: Wild? Was I never wild? I don't know what you're talking about, Dominic. Wild how? Angry?
Dominic Kearney: Not angry. Wild
Siobhan Súilleabháin: You just keep saying wild, Dominic!

Dominic Kearney: If we sat next to Colm, the women would have to talk to us too, and then we could get at them with our small talk.