Dictionary Entry

A gcuid meala féin agus bainne 'chuile shórt féin acu agus ach bin naoi déag deich mbliana sular fhág siad ach bhí sé ag titim i léig an dtuigeann tú ní raibh na ní raibh an oiread sin ar siúl is a bhíodh na blianta ó shin. Ní raibh fir óga ag dul isteach san ord is cosúil. Ní raibh dóthain acu agus b'éigean cuir i gcás i mbunaitheoirí mná a fhostú mar mhúinteoirí rud nár tharla you know ní raibh sé mar mar nós ag na ag na Proinsiasaigh go mbíodh mná ag múineadh agus bin an chaoi a raibh sé so shocraigh siad ar imeacht i naoi déag seachtó is a haon agus de bhrí go raibh an oiread sin tionchar acu ar an áit agus ba chuid den áit iad shíl muintir Áfa gur mhór an trua dá gceannófaí go príobháideach é.

Their own honey and milk, every kind of thing themselves, and only since nineteen ten years before they left, but it was declining, you understand, there wasn’t as much going on as there used to be years ago. Young men weren’t joining the order, it seems. They didn’t have enough, and it was necessary, for example, to employ women founders as teachers, which hadn’t happened—you know—it wasn’t the custom among the Franciscans for women to be teaching, and that’s how it was, so they decided to leave in nineteen seventy-one, and because they had so much influence on the place and were part of the place, the people of Atha thought it would be a great pity if it were bought privately.