Paddy Kelly – författare

On January 12th, 1912 at 12 noon, 57,000 European immigrants comprised of 25 nationalities, 45 languages, (less than 10% of which spoke English), struck against one of the richest men in the world. To add to the drama, they faced a hostile governor and U. S. president, a racially motivated police force backed by the U. S. Army and the worst New England Winter on record.Against a backdrop of wars raging in the Far East, The Balkans and North Africa, the most hotly contested U. S. election to date and unprecedented, government sponsored violence, a no-holds-barred industrial strike was launched.In Book II of Paddy Kelly's series Building of Empire: Crime & Politics, the Cornerstone of America, the epic drama of a forgotten story in U. S. history, its Class Wars, is told through a neglected chapter, the Lawrence Mill Strike of 1912.With the ambience and intensity of Reds and the spirit of Cabaret the story of the largest industrial action of its time, The American Way chronicles the drama of people swept up in events larger than themselves as they refused to capitulate to some of the most powerful men on the face of the planet.The American Way is the true story of what European immigrants endured in burgeoning industrial America. Played out in seven weeks, in the dead of the worst New England winter in half a century, the story of this historic struggle invites you to come to America, land of the free. Home of the brave.Where the streets are paved with blood.

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MADE IN THE GOOD OLD SWEDEN

STRAIGHT OUTTA GARDEN

Sweden, land of elks, modular furniture and upper-lip tobacco, has a strange quirk — its love for using English in its advertising, written with no help from native speakers.

This freshly-arrived Irish immigrant’s natural reaction was to collect as many examples of this terrible yet hilarious English ad copy as possible.

Presented here, with the question: CAN YOU ENGLISH?

Paddy Kelly, born in Ireland, has soon spent half his life in Sweden. A longtime writer, published in places ranging from The Irish Times and The Local Sweden to Analog Science Fiction, he now works with coding and innovation in Stockholm.

COFFEE ON THE FOOD

ONLINE SLUT

BE AFRAID OF YOUR HEAD

Allting låter lite bättre på engelska, vilket har gjort det till det (in)officiella reklamspråket i Sverige. Egentligen gör det inte så mycket om det man säger inte betyder något, för det låter i alla fall coolt.

När irländaren Paddy Kelly flyttar till Sverige blir han först chockad över hur svenska reklammakare misshandlar hans språk, men sedan inser han att alla konstiga formuleringar, antydningar och syftningsfel kan vara en källa till glädje och till och med ett sätt att komma närmare svenskarna.

I We Can English bjuder han på ett urval av svengelska grodor, samtidigt som du får lära dig mer om livet som irländare i landet lagom.

Det här är inte en bok som ger dig svaren på alla dina språkfrågor, men du kommer garanterat att bli mer osäker på engelska.