North American Gaels
- A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada
- And Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States
- A new awareness of the large North American Gaelic diaspora
- Long overlooked by historians
- Folklorists
- And literary scholars
- Has emerged in recent decades
- Representing the first tandem exploration of these related migrant ethnic groups
- Examines the myriad ways Gaelic-speaking immigrants from marginalized societies have negotiated cultural spaces for themselves in their new homeland
- In the macaronic verses of a Newfoundland fisherman
