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"If you have a roving eye, it's no use having the other one fixed on heaven." "A secret buried in a sober heart can come to life on drunken lips." For the Irish, or those who would like to be, this collection of Irish traditions, jokes, sayings, proverbs, wit and wisdom on subjects such as religion, curses, superstitions and blessings, provides a spicy Irish stew of entertainment.
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A Touch of the Irish: Wit and Wisdom and a Bit o Blarney
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A Touch of the Irish : Wit and Wisdom and a Bit o' Blarney
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gibbings, Robert (illustrator). 1st Edition. 192pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Page margins tanning. Internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket Mylar wrapped (not adhered), price clipped. 8vo. A jury of twelve Corkmen returned the following verdict: We find the defendant guilty as charged. We admit he didn't do it because he was somewhere else at the time, but we think he would have done it if he had had the chance. Typical Irish humour on a variety of subjects. Gibbings, Robert Blaney, jokes, Humour, humor, Ireland, Seller Inventory # 008876
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A touch of the Irish : wit and wisdom / [compiled by] Sean Desmond ; illustrated with engraving by Robert Gibbings
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A touch of the Irish : wit and wisdom / [compiled by] Sean Desmond ; illustrated with engraving by Robert Gibbings
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