Peter Flanagan

agus tuige nár straidhpeáil siad an an baile libhse

and why didn't they divide your town?

bhí sinn a' gabháil 'un Aifrinn, bhí sé déanta suas againn

we were going to mass. We had decided

oileáin Arann

Aran Islands

ní thig leat a chur síos ach an méid seo

You can only allowed to plant this much

ag an Aifreann

at the mass

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