Peter Flanagan

timpeall naoi gcéad déag a tháinig Mac an Ghabhna ann

Around nineteen hundred came Mac an Ghabhna

Seam as inbhear, as an inbhear

Yes, from the estuary, from the estuary.

deartháir

brother

bhí siad i mo rangsa

they were in my class

cead ar bith Gaeilge

any permission to...Irish

cha raibh mé an tús ansin nach raibh aon rogha agam

I wasn't there then that I had no choice.

Agus tugadh go Peterhead é?

And he was taken to Peterhead?

bhuel, bhí sé sin in, i gceannfort

well, that was

thug an mháthair; thug sí leis, thug sí an t-airgead léithe

The mother gave, she gave it to him. She took the money with her.

seanathair an tsagairt

grandfather of the priest

amuigh

out

B'éigean dúinn a dhul

We had to go

as Béal Deirg

from Béal Deirg

bhuel ag feilméaracht a bhí sibh agus ag iascaireacht

Well, it's farming you were doing and fishing

agus mise, agus bhí fear eile

and me, and there was another man