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.

The ‘Valley brogue’ was seen as non-standard and not recognized for the treasure it is, with the first academic study published in 1981.

Dar le Durham nach raibh le déanamh ach oideachas Gallda a thabhairt do na páistí Francacha agus bheidís ina “happy English children” gan aon ró-mhoill.

According to Durham [Governor General of British North America] the only thing that had to be done was to give English education to the French children and they would be “happy English children” without any delay.

Bhí Colm agus Nan pósta. Urlár trí seomra i mbarr tí i nGriffin Town tógtha ar cíos acu…

Colm and Nan were married. A three-bedroom apartment at the top of a house in Griffintown they had rented…

Tá scéala a’ teacht ó Thoronto a rá go bhfuil 15,000 fear in easpa oibre sa bhaile thoir sin.

News is coming from Toronto saying that 15,000 men are lacking work in that eastern city.

Sula rugadh an chuid is mó againn, cailleadh agus cuireadh faoin bhfód seo, níos mó ná dhá mhíle daoine déag.

Before the largest portion of us was born, more than twelve thousand people were lost and were put beneath the ground here.

The primeval language of man, of which the Keltic is a dialect, brings us back to the period before the human family had emigrated from the first home wherein they had settled.

Displaying the Irish language manuscript collection of Edward Murphy, Montréal, Québec

A fhíorchlanna Gaeil Glais dhon tsaorfhuil ba chalma, laochas a ndearg túis baoil

Oh true green Gaels of free blood most brave, of true valour at dangers start

If ever there was a great national object, deserving the attention, sympathies and substantial support of Irishmen, it is the preservation of the remains of their history and language. One of the richest historical and literary mines of Christian, and, I may also add, of Pagan Europe, remains still unexplored in Ireland.

Transcribed by me J. Rd. From an Ancient Christian Doctrine In the year of our Lord God One Thousand Eight Hundred & Fifteen