The people of Ireland are renowned for their wit, and as they migrated they took that famous sense of humor with them. Sampling Irish one-liners, limericks, drinking stories, put-downs, and epitaphs, this rollicking collection includes contributions from Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Jonathan Swift, and Spike Milligan, who observed, "Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one."