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FRIENDS & SPONSORS

The Crossroads Irish-American Festival 2008 is supported in part by the following funders, advertising sponsors, donors, businesses, community groups, and friends. We are very grateful for their generosity and faith.

• Consulate General of Ireland & the Department of Foreign
   Affairs' Cultural Division
• The San Francisco Public Library &
   The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library
• Bookshop West Portal
• Books Inc.
• The Carpenters Union, Local #22
• Celtic Golf Management
• Colour Drop
• D'Arcy & Harty Construction, Inc.
• Duggan's Funeral Service
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local #6
• Industrial Development Agency (IDA) - Ireland
• Irish American Unity Conference (IAUC)
• Irish Cultural Centre of California (ICCC) & the United Irish
   Cultural Center (UICC)
• J. O'Driscoll Electrical
• The Law Offices of James M. Byrne
• The Law Office of John J. Farrell
• McAvoy O'Hara Company Evergreen Mortuary
• Parc 55 Hotel
• The Plough & Stars
• Quinn Associates
• Ranger Pipelines, Inc.
• Sacred Site Tours
• San Francisco Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA)
• St. Paul's Parish of Noe Valley
• Tiernan's Irish Pub
• Tourism Ireland
• Zimmerman Lehman

Fiscal Sponsor
Intersection for the ArtsThe Crossroads Irish-American Festival is a member of the Intersection Incubator, a program of Intersection for the Arts providing fiscal sponsorship, networking and consulting for artists.  Intersection is San Francisco's oldest alternative arts space, presenting ground breaking works in the literary, performing visual and interdisciplinary arts.  Visit www.theintersection.org.

Media Sponsor
• The Irish Herald

Individual Sponsors & Friends
• Dennis Gallagher, designer
• Christopher & Maureen Flynn
• Jack & Gina Flynn
• Colleen Lavin
• Nancy Quinn & Tom Driscoll
• Louis Rosenbaum
• Eddie Stack
• Kathleen Reilly Steadman
• Tim Sullivan
• Eduardo Waller de Oliveira
• James Baker, web designer

 

 

How the Irish Invented Slang
 

How The Irish Invented Slang has been selected as a winner of the twenty-eighth annual American Book Awards for 2007! In his most recent best-seller How the Irish Invented Slang: the Secret Language of the Crossroads, Daniel Cassidy, co-director of the Irish Studies program at New College of California and co-founder of the Crossroads Irish-American Festival, cuts through two hundred years of Anglo-American academic "baloney" and reveals the massive, hidden influence of the Irish language on American vernacular and slang.
Read more.