Is glas iad na cnoic i bhfad uainn.
Distant hills look green.
Both of these express a cynicism that was justified, at least with respect to America. For most Irish immigrants, America, especially in the nineteenth century, was just a different horror from the one they left behind. It is an amalgam of these dialects, containing pronunciations common to them all. This is a regional variation. Speakers of the Munster dialect will tend to say knik while speakers from Ulster and Connacht will tend to say krik .