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Cha bhuineadh Anna Siorlaidh riamh do dhuine sam bith-cha bhuineadh, buileach... agus mar sin tha i air bhioran nuair a tha i a' dol i a dh'fhuireach còmhla ri Marilla is Mata Cuthbert aig Stuaghan Uaine. Ach tha iongnaidhean mòra a' feitheamh orrasan! Tha dùil aca ri dilleachdan de bhalach a chuidicheas iad air an tuathanas-ach nach ann a tha iad a' faighinn nighean chaol ruadh na àite. Sunndach is làn smioralais, chan fhada gus a bheil muinntir Cuthbert gu math measail air Anna Ruadh, le a mac-meanmainn beothail agus a cabadaich gun chrìch. Chan fhada cuideachd gus a bheil dol a-mach Anna ag adhbharachadh thrioblaidean gu leòr dhi-ged a tha e doirbh smaoineachadh ciamar a bhiodh cùisean às a h-aonais.
Canadian author L.M. Montgomery's fictional story of the red-haired orphan Anne Shirley is beloved by generations of children and adults worldwide. First published in 1908, the story is set in the Maritime provinces of Canada. From an orphanage in Nova Scotia, Anne is sent by mistake to rural Prince Edward Island, to aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert who wanted to adopt a boy to help on their farm. Anne of Green Gables has been translated into over 30 languages and is the subject of film, television, radio, musical, and play adaptations. The novel has never before been translated into Gaelic, even though Gaelic is the language with the closest cultural and historical connections to L.M. Montgomery and Prince Edward Island after English. This was a major oversight connected to the way that Gaels and Gaelic have been deliberately erased from Maritime and Canadian culture and history. The Gaelic translation of Anne of Green Gables is imbued with the charm and appeal of the English original, while also recognizing Maritime Canadian Gaelic culture. The translation is titled Anna Ruadh, which means "Red-haired Anne," a typical Gaelic nickname for a red-haired girl named Anne.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942), publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for her 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The central character, Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Most of the novels were set in Prince Edward Island, and locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site-namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park. She was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935. Since then, Montgomery's work, diaries and letters have been read and studied by scholars and readers worldwide.
