CROSSROADS: Irish-American Festival

OUR MISSION

The mission of the Crossroads Irish-American Festival is to convene and inspire the Irish and Irish-American communities of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond to explore and reveal the often hidden histories of the Irish in the Americas. We do this by producing public events with noted writers, musicians, actors, film makers, poets, historians, story-tellers and other local, national, and international figures who make manifest the meaning of an Irish-American heritage through their works.



	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.