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Ach anseo i Músaem Shaol na Tuaithe tá iarsmaí fhisiciúla den saol sin. Tá sé tráthúil mar sin go dtabharfaí le chéile an dream a bhfuil caint agus cur síos acu ar an saol sin. Ar an láthair phoiblí seo is mó le rá a bhfuil iarsmaí an tsaoil sin cruinnithe ann. Ar mo chlé anseo tá Seán Ó Murchú, tiománaí leoraí ag McDonis, Thomas McDonagh, An Suns, lucht crua-earraí na Gaillimhe, fear atá amuigh ar a phinsean anois, Seán Ó Murchú as Eanach Cuain dhó ó dhúchas an-scil ag Seán i gcúrsaí feilméarachta capaill agus céachtaí agus ainmhí agus eile suim ar leith aige i leaganacha cainte atá imithe as béal na ndaoine ina cheantar féin agus fear mór léitheoireachta é i mBéarla agus i nGaeilge. Cén t-amhrán é siúd a Sheáin ag muintir Chonamara a bhfuil tagairt do chapaill agus do chéachtaí ann?

But here in the Museum of Country Life there are physical remnants of that life. It is therefore appropriate that the people who have stories and descriptions of that life should be brought together. In this public place, most notably, the remnants of that life have been gathered. On my left here is Seán Ó Murchú, a lorry driver with McDonis, Thomas McDonagh, The Suns, the hardware people of Galway, a man who is now out on his pension, Seán Ó Murchú from Eanach Cuain by origin, very skilled in matters of horse farming and ploughs and animals and other things, with a particular interest in expressions that have disappeared from the speech of the people in his own area, and he is a great reader in both English and Irish. What is that song, Seán, among the people of Connemara that refers to horses and ploughs?