Possible Clues:

• 'For them his confusion of times such as these (3,5)'
• Cork folk
• Supposedly lucky people seen in part of eye hospital
• They celebrate St Patrick's Day in US
• Supposedly lucky types, fair people who never speak well of one another (Johnson)
• For them, for him, is confused for us
• Times such as these
• We get his confusion, following for them (3, 5)
• These here times
• For them, his confusion follows us