“A resource with an enormous effect”: review
Here’s a nice plug for Seanchaidh na Coille / Memory Keeper of the Forest: Anthology of Scottish Gaelic Literature of Canada, by Michael Newton (CBU Press 2015), published at www.scotclans.com.
“The best place to look for answers to such a question is in the words of the Gaels themselves.”
“The poems, songs and narratives included in Seanchaidh na Coille offer new and important insights … [a] resource with an enormous effect that should be on the desk of every member of the Scottish North American diaspora….”
“[T]hrough careful analysis of Gaelic language literature, [Newton’s] work tends to explode old myths and assumptions of the Gaelic experience and supplant them with the voice of the Gaels themselves. You may believe you know the story of Gaelic immigration to North America. If you haven’t yet familiarized yourself with Dr. Newton’s work on the topic, you simply do not fully understand that story because you haven’t heard it from the Gaels themselves.”
We’re blushing.