Here are 500 of the very best one-liners, groaners, and limericks to come from a people who turn them out.

This delightful volume by a renowned expert on ethnic humor presents the choicest of Irish poetry, limericks, anecdotes, jokes, and words of wisdom. It's all here: the loving, the fighting, the drinking, the praying, the struggling, and the laughing.

The author of 500 Great Italian Jokes and 500 Great Jewish Jokes is back with another hilarious collection of ethnic humor, this time poking fun at the Irish. From drinking to potatoes, religion to politics, the Irish get their turn in the hands of this jolly joker.