Leabhar é seo faoi dhuine de na daoine ba shuimiúla na hÉireann nuair a bhí sé páirteach i reabhlóid Éire Óg sa bhliain 1848 agus faoina shaol sna Stáit Aontaithe agus i gCeanada ina dhiaidh sin.

This is a book about one of the most interesting Irish persons who took part in the Young Ireland revolution in the year 1848 and about his life in the United States and in Canada following that.

It is safe to say that at no point in the almost half a millennium of Irish history in Canada has there been a time when the Irish language was not heard somewhere across the country, even if only through individual, isolated speakers.

Ar mo theanga a scaoilim, ag síneadh, múscailt, ‘s ag spré

Radharc nua sinsearach, soilseach, saoithiúil is spéireach

On my language I let loose, stretching, awakening, spreading

A new ancestral view, luminous, humorous and beautiful

Feiceann Liam Mac Fhlannchadha lena shúile féin drochshaol na ndaoine i lár an naoú céad déag. Tá an chumhacht ag na tiarnaí talún, agus caitear amach ar thaobh an bhóthair aon duine nach ngéilleann dóibh.

Liam Mac Fhlannchadha sees with his oen eyes the poverty of the people in the middle of the nineteenth century. The power is held by the landlords, and anyone who does not submit to them is thrown out on the side of the road.

Chuir an Ceannaire Wild constáblaí amach go dtí na hIniúitigh agus go dtí na Gwich’in. Rinne an dá náisiún margadh leis an RCMP agus bhí an Ceannaire Wild sásta go mbeadh cúpla céad fear faoina cheannas anois agus nach mbeadh seans ar bith ag Johnson éalú uaidh.

Corporal While put constables out to the Inuit and to the Gwich’in. The two nations made an arrangemnt with the RCMP and Corporal Wild was satisfied that there would be several hundred men under his leadership now and that Johnson would have no chance of escaping from him.

Nóiméad ina dhiaidh sin, lig an Cearbhallach liú as. Osclaíodh doras na cistine de phléasc agus réab slua fear isteach, a gcleitheanna in airde, agus thug siad faoin seanfhear is an tseanbhean a bhualadh go fíochmhar.

A minute after that, Ó Cearbhaill let out a shout. The door of the kitchen opened with an explosion and a crowd of people pushed in, their clubs raised, and they laid into violently beating the old man and the old woman.

Tá duine nua sa rang anocht againn, a scoláirí. Bean uasal ó Mheiriceá. Katherine Hughes ... nó Caitlín Ní Aodha

We have a new person in the class tonight, students. A lady from America. Katherine Hughes ... or Caitlín Ní Aodha

Idir Dhá Thír (Between Two Lands) is a collections of essays exploring the experience of Canada for an Irish immigrant, Pádraig Ó Siadhail (Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia).

Bhí dearcadh Ghaeil Thalamh an Éisc i leith na sióg, agus gach ar bhain leo, chomh láidir is a bhíodh in Éirinn. Ní amháin sin, bhí ‘the little people’ nó ‘the good people’, mar a thugaidís orthu, mórthimpeall othru - i dTalamh an Éisc!

The view of Newfoundland Gaels towards the fairies, and everything concerning them, was as strong as it had been in Ireland. Not only that, ‘the little people’ or ‘the good people’ as they were called, were all around them - in Newfoundland!

The tranquil existence of John Berry, a retired academic, and his Polish-Canadian wife is unsettled by the shadows of ancestral transgressions.

Ó Cheanada! Dúiche na ngaiscíoch cóir

Oh Canada! Land of the just warriors