Peter Flanagan

"tá mise, tá mise ag imeacht amárach"

"I am leaving tomorrow."

rugadh Micheál ar an séú lá den chéad mhí an Fhomhair sa bhliain míle naoi gcéad

Micheál was born on the sixth day of the first month of the year nineteen hundred.

Gaeilge a bhí acu uilig

Irish they all had

gaoth aduaidh agus aniar aduaidh

wind from the north and from the north-west

ar Frank Carthy

on Frank Carty

thóg, mé fhéin agus m'athair agus an

I won, myself and my father and the

go Cill Ala

to Killala

as Béarla Peterhead, agus bhí siad

In English Peterhead, and they were

fataí

potatoes

Gaeilge

Irish

ceithre, ceithre chéad troith

Four hundred feet.

níl fhios agam air mórsheisear nó ochtar a tháinig i dtoiseach. Bhuel, bhí scoil

I don't know if six or eight people came at first. Well, there was a school.

chuala mé go raibh...go ndeachaigh sibh go Bleá Cliath nuair a bhí tú sách óg. Bhí: seacht bliain

I heard that...that you went to Dublin when you were quite young. I was: seven years

...go raibh sé ins an RAMC: the Royal Army Medical Corps

that he was in the RAMC: the Royal Army Medical Corps

Ní thigeadh siad thart ar chor ar bith; bhí bhí agent acu,

They wouldn't go over at all; they had an agent,