CROSSROADS: Irish-American Festival

We would like to stay in touch with you. Contact us:

- If you want to know more about the Crossroads
Irish-American Festival

- If you would like to receive updates about the up-coming
festival

- We need many volunteers to make the Crossroads Festival successful. For example we need assistance:

- distributing brochures and posters to neighborhood
stores, libraries, bookstores, pubs and cafes.
- at the individual events with greeting the public and
collecting evaluation forms.
- setting up chairs and breaking down tables before
and after the events.
- providing hospitality at the events.

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Our mail address is:

Crossroads Irish-American Festival
PO Box 170672
San Francisco, CA 94117-0672



	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.