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Pete McCarthy Quotes

But once you cross the Shannon - even though geographically you have only come a short distance - different rules of time apply, and most people still understand the crucial secret of human happiness:...

Pete McCarthy

But once you cross the Shannon - even though geographically you have only come a short distance - different rules of time apply, and most people still understand the crucial secret of human happiness:...

I find my grandfather, buried with Great-Aunt Hannah and Uncle Jack. His surname is spelled ‘MacCarthy’, with an extra ‘a’; like many names here, it’s a translation from the Irish, so the ‘a’ is optio...

Pete McCarthy

I find my grandfather, buried with Great-Aunt Hannah and Uncle Jack. His surname is spelled ‘MacCarthy’, with an extra ‘a’; like many names here, it’s a translation from the Irish, so the ‘a’ is optio...

About Author
Peter Charles McCarthy Robinson (9 November 1951 – 6 October 2004) was an Anglo-Irish comedian, radio and television presenter and travel writer. He was noted for his best-selling travel books McCarthy's Bar (2000) and The Road to McCarthy (2002), in which he explored western Ireland and the Irish diaspora around the world.

I find myself thinking, and not for the first time, just how useful wilderness must be when it comes to burying a troublesome relative, or a complete stranger.

Pete McCarthy

I find myself thinking, and not for the first time, just how useful wilderness must be when it comes to burying a troublesome relative, or a complete stranger.

I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

Pete McCarthy

I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.

Pete McCarthy

I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.

I use the pay phone to call my friend Noel. The last time I was here he took me up a mountainside in Connemara with a seventy-eight-year-old poteen-maker who’d learned his craft as a teenager from his...

Pete McCarthy

I use the pay phone to call my friend Noel. The last time I was here he took me up a mountainside in Connemara with a seventy-eight-year-old poteen-maker who’d learned his craft as a teenager from his...

If life is a book, then read it while you can.

Pete McCarthy

If life is a book, then read it while you can.

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

Pete McCarthy

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

Tags: guilt

It's always stimulating to visit new places, acquire fresh knowledge and expand your portfolio of nightmares.

Pete McCarthy

It's always stimulating to visit new places, acquire fresh knowledge and expand your portfolio of nightmares.

Mind you, he looks a bit out of it, gazing around in confusion, as if his sax player’s brain has been removed and replaced with a drummer’s.

Pete McCarthy

Mind you, he looks a bit out of it, gazing around in confusion, as if his sax player’s brain has been removed and replaced with a drummer’s.

Never pass a bar with your name on it

Pete McCarthy

Never pass a bar with your name on it

That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

Pete McCarthy

That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

Tags: storytelling

The harp player had just fallen off the stage and cracked his head on an Italian tourist’s pint. There was a big cheer, and Con the barman rang a bell on the counter. St Patrick’s Day, and McCarthy’s...

Pete McCarthy

The harp player had just fallen off the stage and cracked his head on an Italian tourist’s pint. There was a big cheer, and Con the barman rang a bell on the counter. St Patrick’s Day, and McCarthy’s...

The harp player had just fallen off the stage and cracked his head on an Italian tourist’s pint. There was a big cheer, and Con the barman rang a bell on the counter.

Pete McCarthy

The harp player had just fallen off the stage and cracked his head on an Italian tourist’s pint. There was a big cheer, and Con the barman rang a bell on the counter.

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.

Pete McCarthy

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.

Tags: travel, travel writing

Wherever you go in the world, there will be people to tell you it'll be bigger, stranger, better, more authentic if you take the time to go somewhere else instead; but if you are there, you won't be h...

Pete McCarthy

Wherever you go in the world, there will be people to tell you it'll be bigger, stranger, better, more authentic if you take the time to go somewhere else instead; but if you are there, you won't be h...