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To learn more about other cultural events and happenings in the community during the month of March and beyond, please click on the links below.

San Francisco Irish Film Festival

San Francisco Irish Music Festival

San Francisco's St. Patrick's Day Parade

Irish Connect

United Irish Cultural Center of San Francisco

Irishabroad.com

Irishecho.com

Seventymillion.com


 

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.
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