Peter Flanagan

Doire Cholm Cille

Derry City

nuair a tháinig siad, tháinig, oh, tháinig

when they came, they came, oh, they came

bhuel thoisigh mé ag cúnamh 'us ag cuimhne, bhuil fhios a'd?

well, I began to help and to ponder, you know?

ceann de na tithe sin

One of those houses

ach níor straidhpeáil siad an baile s'againne 'chor ar bith

but they didn't divide our town at all.

Ní hea--Béarla?--Béarla, Béarla--Béarla a bhí ann--Ní raibh focal ar bith

It is not--English?--English, English--English was there--There wasn't a word...

ach bhí seisean, nuair a tháinig sinn ar ais go Glasgow bhí seisean

but he was there. When we came back to Glasgow he was there.

ina student an uair sin é

he was a student at that time

ná ní raibh Béarla ag mo mháthair

nor did my mother have English.

agus bhí sé ag dul go Meiriceá aríst, agus

and he was going to America again, and

ag...fréamh ceart i mBéal Deirg anois go dtáinig

at...a strong root in Béal Deirg until

teach an Ard Mhaoir

the high steward's house

Bhuel cén sórt saol a bhí agat i ndiaidh sin ansin? Céard a rinne tú ina dhiaidh sin? An raibh tú...an ndeachaidh tú go hAlbain aríst?

And what sort of life did you have after that? What did you do afterwards? Did you go back to Scotland?

níor tháinig, níor tháinig leotha

they couldn't, they couldn't

Tugadh go Peterhead é

He was taken to Peterhead