A brand-new 'Brewer's' dedicated to the 'phrase and fable' of the emerald isle.

This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces ar

A vivid and affectionate celebration of the history, culture and mythology of Ireland.

Completely updated for the twenty-first century, this reference presents definitions and origins of thousands of words, idioms, catchphrases, slogans, nicknames