The characters of those contemporary Irish literary works that I am going to observe live in this reason-centred world. Some of these works are set in a world where institutionalized religion still possesses some kind of authority, but it cannot fulfil its purpose: to offer solution for those who are searching faith in this secularized world. We will see that in a world where transcendence is repressed, the desire for it is the immediate consequence. Obviously this desire and search for faith, or in some works a search for a more meaningful life, led to conflicts in the self. A conflict with the society in which the self lives, and an inner conflict as well. As drama and short story seem to be suitable genres to express these conflicts, I am going to observe the different ways, in which characters search transcendence and struggle with faith in some contemporary Irish plays and short stories.