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Natasha Sumner, co-editor of the new essay collection North American Gaels: Speech, Story, and Song in the Diaspora, will give a lecture on the book as part of the Comunn Gàidhlig Thoronto - Gaelic Society Toronto Speaker Series. All attendees will receive a 20% off promo code toward the purchase of the book.
Natasha Sumner is associate professor of Celtic languages and literatures at Harvard University. Aidan Doyle lectures on Irish language at the National University of Ireland, Cork.
North American Gaels, 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, the pointed addresses of an Ontario essayist, the compositions of a Montana miner, and lively exchanges in newspapers from Cape Breton to Boston to New York, these groups proclaim their presence in vibrant traditional modes fluently adapted to suit North American climes. Through careful investigations of this diasporic Gaelic narrative and its context, from the mid-eighteenth century to the twenty-first, the book treats such overarching themes as the sociolinguistics of minority languages, connection with one's former home, and the tension between the desire for modernity and the enduring influence of tradition.