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Dan Barry is the author of City Lights, a collection of his New York Times columns, and Pull Me Up, about his Irish-American upbringing, his start in journalism and his struggle with cancer. He writes a column for the Times called "This Land."

Daniel Cassidy's book, How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroad, received the American Book Award in 2007. He is a professor at New College of California in San Francisco.

Maureen Dezell is a veteran Boston journalist and author of the critically acclaimed Irish America: Coming into Clover. A former Boston Globe reporter, she is now and independent writer, who teaches journalism at Emerson College.

T. J. English, author of Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster, is a journalist, screenwriter, and author of three other books, including The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Playboy, and New York magazine.

Peter A. Quinn is the author of Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America, The Hour of the Cat, and Banished Children of Eve. A novelist and essayist, he is a former Time Warner corporate editorial director.