Irish Wit, Wisdom and Humor: The Complete Collection of Irish Jokes, One-Liners & Witty Sayings

by Gerd De Ley

Overview

The greatest collection of Irish wit, wisdom and humor ever published. The best of humorous quotes, witty observations, and funny one-liners from those hailing from the Emerald Isle.

"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff." Irish Wit, Wisdom & Humor collects over 1000 witticisms, musings, deep thoughts, and one-liners from and about Ireland and its people. It features hundreds of authors, poets, comedians, actors, politicians and many more that best represent the Emerald Isle including James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Bono, Edna O'Brien, C.S. Lewis, Sinead O'Connor, George Bernard Shaw, and many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578269242
Publisher:	Hatherleigh Press
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	317,257
Product dimensions:	4.77(w) x 7.13(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Gerd de Ley is a former English teacher and has been a professional writer and actor since 1975. From an early age, Gerd has been an avid collector of quotations and proverbs from all over the world and has had more than 450 works published in Holland and Belgium. His most comprehensive book, Het Grootste Citatenboek ter Wereld (translated as The Greatest Quotation Book in the World), was published in 2009 and contains over 40,000 quotes. For the past two decades, Gerd has worked together with linguist David Potter to bring his work to English audiences, resulting in publications in England, USA, India, Finland, China, and Vietnam.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Ireland and the Irish 1

An Irish Lexicon 17

Unofficial Laws (and a Bit of Advice) 67

Dialogues 99

Facts and Comparisons 107

Q & A 129

Animals 139

Men, Women and Love 151

Drinking and Smoking 169

Sports 187

If God… 193

Proverbialisms 199

Index of Author 209