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Siom isteach éisteoirí, ba i mBaile an Ghleanna, ar leithinis an Chorráin i bparóiste Acla sa bhliain 1900 agus 4, a rugadh Micheál Ó Gallchóir nó Mikey mar is fearr aithne air, fear mór téagarach tíriúil a bhfuil sé rídheacair cur síos a dhéanamh ar eachtraí éagsúla a shaoil in aon leathuair an chloig amháin, aithne mhaith air ó cheann cheann chósta Mhaigh Eo, go háirithe ag bádóirí agus ag iascairí, ba as baile chruaidh dá mháthair Bríd Ní Churacháin agus ba as Baile an Ghleanna dá athair, Michael Sheáin.

Listeners tune in, it was in Baile an Ghleanna, on the Corrán Peninsula in the parish of Achill in the year 1904, that Micheál Ó Gallchóir or Mikey as he is better known, was born, a big, sturdy, earthy man who is very difficult to describe the various events of his life in just half an hour, well known from one end of the Mayo coast to the other, especially among boatmen and fishermen, his mother Bríd Ní Churacháin was from a hard town and his father was from Baile an Ghleanna, Michael Sheáin.