Irony is all around us in our everyday lives, seemingly wherever we look. Especially if you live in East London. In fact, even celebrity deaths can be ironic.

However, if you’re looking for some of the best examples of irony then you can’t go wrong with a good picture that perfectly sums up the phrase, which is exactly what these 19 photographs do a sterling job of. Each one of them could serve as ‘the definition of irony’ as the phrase used to go, but I think our favourite has to be the college of architecture and planning. Way to go guys, I’m sure you’ve had a lot of enrolments since you stuck up that sign.