Joys of Irish Humor

Los Angeles Times
"An outrageously funny collection of anecdotes, jokes, one liners, and limericks."


Booklist
"A marvelous compilation that will surely entertain."


Spiritual Book News
"A great book for the Irish!"


Book Description
The author of the best-selling Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor presents the choicest of Irish poetry and limericks, older jokes and new jokes, anecdotes, and words of wisdom just as they have come down to us through the ages. Spalding, a renowned expert on ethnic humor, has not neglected the Irish-American, and in these pages we meet him working in the Erie Canal, the railroads and in the mines, and as he achieves high political office in the office of the U.S. Yes, they are all here: loving, fighting, drinking, praying, struggling, and laughing.


About the Author
HENRY D. SPALDING, a native of New York City, was a reporter for the New York Mirror and the Journal. While a member of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., he was an accredited White House correspondent. In the 1950s he moved to Los Angeles, where he was active as editor and publisher of Deejay, Disc, and Top Tenall music magazinesas well as of Talent News, a show-business trade journal. Mr. Spalding's Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor was issued in 1969 and has since gone through many editions. This was followed by Encyclopedia of Black Folklore and Humor, Joys of Irish Humor, and Joys of Italian Humor and Folklore, all of which have established him as one of the leading experts on ethnic humor.


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An entertaining collection of jokes, one-liners, limericks, anecdotes, and much more, JOYS OF IRISH HUMOR offers a unique glimpse at the wonderful sensibility of the Irish, from pre-twentieth-century Ireland and its Gaelic expressions to more modern times and people. From poetry to letters, lusty lines to story excerpts, it's all here in this celebration of the humor of the Irish people and their land.


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