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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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