Slang & Dialect Humour

Collated from various sources including Helen Beatons 1925 At the Back o Benachie and Professor Alexander Fentons academic collection of the saying...

From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of t...

Robert Sheehan is one of Irelands brightest stars of the screen, both at home and abroad. Best known for his roles in Love/Hate and The Umbrella Ac...

Waterford Whispers News is the ninth annual from Ireland''s leading online satirical site, featuring the funniest stories of the year. Read all abo...

The surely soon-to-be million-copy bestselling sort-of inspirational parody.. A timeless parody of C...

In his second book Ronan Moore, author of Irishology, has created a humorous and irreverent guide to every county in Ireland: Galway, where rainfal...

This is not a book about how to be posh. We have some slightly bigger issues to deal with these days.We've all got a million things to do and are c...

Waterford Whispers News 2019 is the sixth annual from Ireland''s leading online satirical site, featuring the funniest stories of the year. Packed ...

Discover everything you''ve ever wanted to know about marijuana all in one place with this authoritative A-to-Z guide to cannabis!What''s a wake an...

A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is a profane guide to the slang from the backstreets and taverns of 18th-century London. This slang dicti...

If you can't say something nice... say it in emoji.Shock your friends and family with this brilliantly offensive collection of emoji put-downs and ...

An indispensable companion for readers, writers, and even casual users of the language, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Kingsley Amis's The ...

Here We F**king Go (HWFG) is the much-anticipated follow up to Chris McQueer s hilarious, award-winning debut short story collection Hings. In HWFG...

While officially in Ireland we may have only two languages, in truth is it is probably closer to three: English, Irish and Irish-English. And it is...

It is essential in polite society to be aware of social niceties. One needs to be aware when cooling your luncheon that ones bunnet should be wafte...

The Broons are a very close 11-strong family! And in a tenement flat, it can get mair crowded than Sauchiehall Street on a Saturday night when abod...

The Irish mix wit and wisdom the way they do whiskey and water, and to the same intoxicating effect. Irish wit is an art form that can be sage, ...