"This impressive collection is the first major attempt to chronicle the experience of Gaelic-speaking peoples in North America, as well as their contribution to North American life and society. North American Gaelswill be an invaluable book to Gaelic scholars, as well as historians and literary scholars interested in the North American experience of those European settlers for whom English and French were foreign languages." Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, Aberystwyth University.