Wednesday, December 30, 2009

IRISH-AMERICANA. . .

I GUESS IF YOU'RE A FAN OF THINGS 'GAELIC', OR 'IRISH' I MUST INDEED SHARE THIS WITH YOU OR BE ETERNALLY DAMNED IN HELL ITSELF

FIRST, AN AMAZON (DOT) COM LINK TO A GREAT BOOK, THEN SOME TASTY LINKS TO COUNTERPUNCH MAG, WHERE I FIRST FOUND THESE, ALONG WITH PICTURES OF ST JOAN OF ARC

THE BOOK IS: How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads (Counterpunch) (English and Irish Edition) (Paperback)

(Paperback)


Irish in America: a Language Lost and Found


How the Irish Invented American Gambling Slang


The Bunkum of Bunkum (for Dizzy Gillespie)


How the Irish Invented Dudes


How the Irish Invented Jazz


Free Lunch


Paddy Works on the Erie


Speaking in Irish Tongues


The Irish Black Thing


My Mother


'S lom to Slum


Farewell to Daniel Cassidy (1943 Brooklyn - October 11, 2008 San Francisco)


WELL THAT'S IT, THE READING IS UP TO YOU, AS THEY SAY, HAVE FUN

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