Meanings of irish joke in English

His lordship, fond enough of Irish jokes outside, was never humourous inside the system.

Controversy arose this week when a newspaper, Inside Time, circulated to prisoners in the UK, contained two Irish jokes.

Now it has been discovered that Irish monks also invented written Latin - and that's not an Irish joke.

He flirted with Mamie Eisenhower and charmed his host with Irish jokes which Eisenhower told around Washington for weeks.

So what were we expecting at the first appearance in the Republic of this master of the Irish joke?

Bauman quotes an Irish joke.

Dictionary: It sounds like an Irish joke: the Welshman, who now lives in Greece, writing a dictionary of Irish phrases.

It's his task to convince builders and the home-owning public that solar energy in Ireland isn't some sort of Irish joke.

"Come, this is one of your good old Irish jokes!"

A UK prison mag has been accused of stirring up racism by printing Irish jokes, but should we just laugh it off?

Not many years ago a censorship of Irish jokes was established, and this was soon followed by an index expurgatorious of Teutonic jokes.

But - through the Irish jokes, the Italian jokes, the corpse as comedy jokes - it has a dark heart that stays beating.

Not O'Beirne, the surgeon, the listener, who hoarded information and indiscreet revelations perhaps for some future yarn, or one of his endless Irish jokes.

"I suppose," he said to Mr. Courtney a few minutes later, "that this is some kind of Irish joke."