Satiric Representations of Violence in Martin McDonagh’s the Beauty Queen of Leenane, a Skull in Connemara and the Lieutenant of Inishmore

Abstract

The 1990s have been of utmost importance for Ireland and the Irish as this decade ischaracterised by a great diversity of problems: economic problems, unemployment andmigration which came as a result of these problems, racial harassment experiencedabroad, psychological problems, the Troubles whose serious impact was felt not only inNorthern Ireland but also in the Republic of Ireland, which emerged as a consequenceof the conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants because of the political statusof Northern Ireland and which began at the end of the 1960s and ended in 1998 withBelfast Agreement; self-centredness emerging as a repercussion of the Celtic Tigerperiod which was witnessed between 1995 and 2000 and which means economicdevelopment in Ireland, and, lastly, the problem of violence. Martin McDonagh, anAnglo-Irish playwright, represents these problems emphasising the problem of violenceencountered in this decade in a satirical but grotesque way particul