I read Flann O’Brien’s “An Béal Bocht” once. In it, Irish people have more suffering or less suffering, but never none, not even after death. I know it was sat

I read Flann O’Brien’s “An Béal Bocht” once. In it, Irish people have more suffering or less suffering, but never none, not even after death. I know it was satire and an exaggeration, but those stereotypes usually stem from a kernel of truth.