Turas Siar 249 - Pádraic S. Ó Murchú as an gCartúr ag caint le Máirtín Mac Donnchadha, RnaG: na focla turas, achar, aistear.

Is fada an bealach anois; is fada an píosa seo anois é.

It is a long way now; this piece is a long one now.

Go dté tú anonn go Gob an Iomaire ná anonn go dtí an Valley, mar a deir siad, ná suas go dtí an Brat Riabhach atá thuas ansin.

That you go over to Gob an Iomaire or over to the Valley, as they say, or up to the Brat Riabhach that is up there.

Bhfuil cineál cinniúint ag baint leis sin go mbeadh sé ar chinniúint duine?

Is there a kind of fate involved in that, that it would be a person's destiny?

Sea

Yes.

go mbeadh sé ceaptha do dhuine an turas a dhéanamh.

that it was supposed for a person to make the journey..

Sea sin é. Ba shin iad a ba shin iad do shlí beatha. Ba shin iad a ba shin iad. Bhí seisean

Yes, that’s it. That’s what they were, that’s what they were for your way of life. That’s what they were, that’s what they were. He was.

Ní bheidh greim le cur ina bhéal acu.

They will have nothing to put in their mouths.

Mura mbeadh siad in ann an an bhuaic sin a chur dhóibh.

If they were not able to set that peak for them...

Bhí siad feistithe agus ábalta, mar déarfá.

They were equipped and able, as you might say..

Ba shin é an obair lae.

That was the day's work.

Mhaoiní uait a bhí rompu ar maidin, déarfadh siad, tá sin í uait.

Riches from you that were before them this morning, they would say, that is what you want..

Nuair a deireadh ar maidin bhí an bhuaic seo romhamsa le cur dhíot agat.

When morning ended, this peak was before me for you to overcome.

Agus an bhfuil de dhifríocht idir é sin anois agus turas nach nach nach baileach gur dá ndeoin fhéin a bhíodar á dhéanamh?

And is there any difference between that now and a journey that, after all, they were making of their own accord?

Sea

Yes.

Turas sin rud mar déarfá aonfá go réidh dhéanfá do lóntraí féin ná dhéanfá in do am féin?

That journey is something like you would say you would unite gently, you would make your own otter, would you not do it in your own time?