Irish wit is an art form, centuries old yet up-to-the-minute wise, insulting, obscure, profound and idiotic. For years the Irish have mixed wit with wisdom, as they have porter and whiskey, and to the same intoxicating effect!In this book, Sean McCann has succeeded in distilling the essence of Irish wit - on love, religion, the 'hard stuff', the English, with a generous mix from Behan, Yeats, Swift, Moore, O'Casey, but above all from 'yer man', the leading authority on everything that grows, breeds, thinks or computes in the land.
Spiced with Tom Matthews cartoons
- ISBN10 1847171273
- ISBN13 9781847171276
- Publish Date 16 March 2009 (first published 3 April 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 February 2022
- Publish Country IE
- Imprint O'Brien Press Ltd
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English