Happens Quote by Frank Carson

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

— James Joyce

Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?

— Elizabeth Bowen

“If there were only three Irishmen in the world you'd find two of them in a corner talking about the other.”

— Brandan Araoz Maria

“The behaviour of the English people I had run into was making it very difficult to nail down a theory that the reason my…

— Tony Hawks

I'm starting a drunken brawl with the first person today who stereotypes the Irish.

— Anonymous

“No genuine Irishman could relax in comfort and feel at home in a pub unless he was sitting in deep gloom on a hard…

— Flann O'Brien

“I was beginning to understand how the Irish mentality worked. The more foolish, illogical or surreal one's actions were perceived t be (and mine…

— Tony Hawks

There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?

— Natalie Dormer

Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.

— Bill Bailey

“But finally we found the place—an Irish pub, as seedy as the roughest ones on the backstreets of Galway.”

— Christina Baker Kline

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

— Seamus Heaney

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

— Frank McCourt