Product Description: "You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer."  —Hal Roach  "Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job."  —James Joyce, Ulysses  "Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland—rich and thick."  —Samuel Beckett They say if you kiss the Blarney Stone, the legendary Stone of Eloquence, you’ll never again be lost for words...read more

Product Description: This is a remarkable book of more than 400 pages of lively and insightful quotes; many of them are wryly funny. ...The observations are divided into many useful categories such as sex, politics, religion, wit and repartee, general reflections and 'oops.'""--Irish American News.

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Luminous full-color photographs complement words of wisdom, prose, and poetry by W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Peig Sayers, Sean O'Casey, Oscar Wilde, John Millington Singe, and other notable authors about the Emerald Isle. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: This book contains a highly enjoyable and varied selection of interesting, informative, intriguing, infuriating - and sometimes just witty - remarks made by Irish people on a number of topical subjects. The quotations included range from the fifth century to today and from the classic to the colloquial...read more