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North American Gaels: Speech, Story, and Song in the Diaspora Ed. Natasha Sumner & Aidan Doyle Montreal. McGill-Queen s University Press. 2020. 511
pages. THE MONOLITH OF American history often overshadows the continent s early multiculturalism. This is especially true of the Age of Revolution, when Americanism as both noun and verb began its long echo across the world. So much has been written about the burgeoning American state of that time that the collective of cultures which made it tend to get lost in the noise. Here is a book that delivers on that lamentable gap, with a history and present-day analysis of two shared, but disparately rich, cultures: Irish and
Scottish Gaelic. When the first cracks in the old-world Gaelic political systems tion to the New World, both Irish and Scottish Gaels were drawing on a deep well of art,...