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How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
Daniel Cassidy
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| #361465 in Books | CounterPunch Books | 2007-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.80 x6.00l,1.21 | File type: PDF | 303 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| More of a Reference type book|By Roberta D Housel|I bought this for my Irish significant-other. Thinking he would be interested, He looked through it and said it was like reading a dictionary. I have not had a chance to read any of it yet. I bought it because of a program I saw, the program about the subject was VERY interesting, I guess it was interesting how it was pres|About the Author|
Daniel Cassidy is founder and co-director of An Léann Éireannach, the Irish Studies Program at New College of California in San Francisco. His research on the Irish language's influence on American vernacular and slang has bee
In a series of lively essays, this pioneering book proves that US slang has its strongest wellsprings in nineteenth-century Irish America. "Jazz" and "poker," "sucker" and "scam" all derive from Irish. While demonstrating this, Daniel Cassidy simultaneously traces the hidden history of how Ireland fashioned America, not just linguistically, but through the Irish gambling underworld, urban street gangs, and the powerful political machines that grew out of them. Ca...
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