Contents: Trauma, depression and confusion in the life and work of Bacon and Beckett – Irish initiatory traditions – Francis Bacon, Masonic Royal Arch rites and the Passing of the Veils – Francis Bacon, Men of No Popery and the Irish warrior tradition – Samuel Beckett’s
Waiting for Godot
: a parody of Royal Arch rites? – Samuel Beckett’s plays: ritual movements, subjective states, torture and trauma – Druidic rites in Samuel Beckett’s
The Unnamable
– Bacon and Beckett compared in the light of Druidism and the Gnostic tradition.