Tonight at Rocky’s Readings at Rocky Sullivan’s in Red Hook:

HOW THE IRISH INVENTED SLANG
The Secret Language of the Crossroads
by Daniel Cassidy
INTRODUCED BY Michael Patrick MacDonald
Special musical guest: Chris Byrne

"A thrilling read… this is a page-turner."
                     Frank McNally, Irish Times

" This book is truly amazing!"
                     Eamonn McCann, Belfast Telegraph

In a fast-paced spiel (speal, cutting, sharp speech) of monologues,
stories, and songs, the Brooklyn-born writer and musician Daniel
Cassidy slices through 100 years  of Anglo-academic baloney (beal
onna, foolish blather) which claims that the Irish have had no
influence on the American language.

This is no linguistic scam (‘s cam, is a trick, a deception, a
fraud), Cassidy’s jazzy (teasai, pron. jasi, hot, exciting) new book
proves that  the Irish language is a hidden strand of the lingo we all
speak today.  Ain’t dat swell (sóúil, grand)?

Brooklyn-born writer and musician Daniel Cassidy reads, performs, and
belts out a song or two from his swell  snazzy new book, How the Irish
Invented Slang: the Secret Language of the Crossroads, at Rocky’s in
Red Hook, where the old Irish slang was born!

Also this week at Rocky’s:

Every Saturday night, 9 p.m.
Seanchaí and The Unity Squad

Every Wednesday, 9pm
Soul Night with SUGARTIME

Every Thursday, 8:30pm
Pub Quiz with Scott M.X. Turnerr

Saturday & Sunday afternoons
Katie’s Brunch served

Rocky Sullivan’s of Red Hook
34 Van Dyke St
Brooklyn
718-246-1793