Irish Wit

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Paperback
2005
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The Irish have a reputation for being the wittiest people on earth and when you read this book, you'll soon see why. Pick up any book of quotations in the English language and you will find it chock-full of quotations from Irish authors such as Wilde, Shaw, Sheridan, Beckett, Keane, Kavanagh and O Faolain, plus the new kids on the block like Moran, O'Hanlon, McAleer and Moncrieff. Irish Wit cuts through the rest to give you the very cream of Irish humour.

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The Irish have a reputation for being the wittiest people on earth and when you read this book, you'll soon see why. Pick up any book of quotations in the English language and you will find it chock-full of quotations from Irish authors such as Wilde, Shaw, Sheridan, Beckett, Keane, Kavanagh and O Faolain, plus the new kids on the block like Moran, O'Hanlon, McAleer and Moncrieff. Irish Wit cuts through the rest to give you the very cream of Irish humour.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New
Publisher: The Mercier Press Ltd
Published: Feb 2005
ISBN 10: 185635461X
ISBN 13: 9781856354615

Media Reviews

'Wit... unlike most books of humorous quotations, is actually funny' - Paul Vallelly, The Independent; 'A contender for the Book of the Month' - Matthew Norman, The Guardian

Author Bio

Des MacHale is the best-selling author of over thirty humour books, including the hugely successful series of Wit books. He is famous for his defence of the joke against the politically correct, and is a regular delegate at humour conferences the world over. He is Associate Professor of Mathematics at University College, Cork.