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2008 The Irish Independent Best Non-Fiction List:  A Story To Be Told, by Eleanor McGrath, Liffey Press We hear so much about Irish America that the story of the Irish who went to Canada over the years tends to be forgotten. This beautifully produced book tells the individual stories of more than a 100 emigrants who went between 1940 and 1990 and it’s a fascinating window into their lives, with pictures of them before they left and years later when they had reinvented themselves on the other side of the Atlantic. A book which is a testament to the decency, industry and inventiveness.

“Eleanor McGrath’s book bids fair to make her the Studs Terkel of Canada.  The massive scale of the interviews, chosen over a fifty year time span, ensures that the subject matter constitutes not merely a personal record of individual Irish immigrants, but a unique insight into half century of Canadian development.”  Tim Pat Coogan, Author