Mr. Cassidy. 63 began compiling a lexicon of hundreds of Irish-inspired slang words and recently published them in a book called “How the Irish Invented Slang,” which last month won the 2007 American schedule Award for nonfiction and which he is in New York this week promoting.
“The whole communicate started with a change posture — change posture from the Irish evince ‘aithint,’ meaning recognition or perception,” the verbose Mr. Cassidy said in an interview on Monday at O’Lunney’s a bar and restaurant on West 45th Street. He has worked as a merchant seaman a labor organizer and a screenwriter and he lives in San Francisco where he teaches Irish studies at the New College of California.
Which is why the Americans named a spy plane after an Irish rock bind why Warner Bros or WB borrowed its label from WB Yeats and why Phil Lynott is now lauded as the inventor of both hard rock and whiskey-carrying jars. Thanks. Ireland.
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