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The speaker is referred to as 'John' in the transcript, and the discussion of Inis Gé suggests familiarity with the Erris region.
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tá go leor gur féin
there is plenty of self
inis dom rud eicínt a john faoi chúrsaí sochraidí agus céard a tharlaíodh nuair nach mbíodh aon sagart agaibh
Tell me something, John, about funeral matters and what happened when you had no priest.
bhain le nuair a chaillfí an duine
related to when the person would be lost
bhí ag tórú anois
was pursuing now
trí lá
three days
agus sin sin é seo sna fichidí nó chónra gearrfaidh siad ina láithreoir
and that's it in their twenties or they'll cut a coffin as a presenter.
cúpla scríobhneoirí
a couple of writers
ar na hoileáin
on the islands
bheadh sochraíd an chaoi go dtí an
The funeral would be the way to the .
rinne sí anseo
she did here
ach ní raibh aon sagart
but there was no priest.
ní raibh aon sagart ann
there was no priest there.
mar sin cé cé rinní an rud mar déarfá cé
so who who did the thing as you might say who