Dead Funny – The Little Book of Irish Grave Humour - Curious Irish Gravestone Inscriptions

Allen Foster

Beschreibung

A collection of curious Irish gravestone inscriptions from across Ireland and further afieldDead Funny is a selection of unusual, funny and often touching epitaphs from graveyards across Ireland. Compiled by Allen Foster, an Irish journalist who specialises in finding quirky and hilarious historical stories, Dead Funny is a hilarious homage to the bizarre tombstones erected across Ireland and beyond. Here lies Pat Steel;That’s very true! Who was he! what was he! What’s that to you? He lies here, because heIs dead – nothing new. Here lies the remains of John Hall, GrocerThe world is not worth a figI have good raisins for saying soThis stone was raised to Sarah Ford, Not Sarah’s virtues to recordFor they’re well known to all the townNo Lord; it was raised to keep her down

Verfügbar seit: 05.11.2010.

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