St. Patrick's Day Gifts for the Word Lover

How about a book of Limericks?  Ogden Nash may have said that the clean ones seldom are comical, but there are limericks for every age. They are fun and safe for the whole family - most of the time.

A book of Irish folk stories  is a great gift for kids and adults.

Perhaps you would prefer a book by a famous Irish writer, such as:

James Joyce  Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,  and The Dubliners.	Bram Stoker  Remember the classic Dracula	Samuel Beckett	William Butler Yeats

George Bernard Shaw	Edna O'Brien	Oscar Wilde	Jonathan Swift  Gulliver's Travels  Gulliver's Travels  -- still popular hundreds of years later.

What about learning a bit about the real Ireland? Check out some books about the following topics:

• Irish History 
• Irish Culture 
• Gaelic Language