Turas Siar 255 - Pádraig Ó Maolfhábhaill (R.I.P.) as Inis Gé faoi agallamh ag Seán Ó hÉalaí (R.I.P.) don tsraith “Sé Do Bheatha”.
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Pádraig Ó Maolfhábhaill is identified in the title as being from Inis Gé, which is in the Erris region. His age group is inferred from his long teaching career and the historical context.
Seán Ó hÉalaí is the interviewer, and his association with RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta suggests he is a native speaker.
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Cérb as a dtáinig an an t-ainm an bhfuil a fhios agat nó cé acu is cirte a rá Béal an Mhuirthead nó Béal an Mhuirthead?
Who is it from which the name came, do you know, or which is more correct to say Béal an Mhuirthead or Béal an Mhuirthead?
Déarfainn gur béal an mhuilead is gaire don cheart is ón iasc muilfead.
I would say that the mouth of the mill is closest to the truth and from the fish I will grind.
Na muilid thuigeadh na muilid aníos an cuan ansin.
They would not go towards, they would not come up the harbour then.
Agus cheapadh na daoine a lán mo
And the people thought a lot of me.
Istigh ansin san áit a bhfuil an baile mór déanta anois sin sular tógadh sular rinneadh an canal sular tógadh an baile mór ar chor ar bith sular rinneadh an canal atá trasna ansin is ón iasc muilead a tháinig an áit a tháinig an t-ainm.
In there, in the place where the big town is built now, before it was built, before the canal was made, before the big town was built at all, before the canal that is across there was made, it is from the mullet fish that the place came, that the name came.
Agus cé mhéad míle as Béal Béal an Mhuirthead sibh féin anseo?
And how many miles from Belmullet are you yourselves here?
Tá timpeall an bhóthair ach níl sé ach timpeall míle trasna ansin dá mbeifeá in ann a dhul díreach trasna dá dtabharfá díreach trasna anseo chaith tú tamall.
It is around the road but it is only about a mile across there if you were able to go straight across if you went straight across here you would spend a while...
Mac de bhlianta ag múineadh anseo i seanchaí.
A son for years teaching here in the old house..
Óh, tá mé anseo i seanchaí anois.
Oh, I am here in the old house now..
Beagnach ó naoi ó naoi déag ceathracha haon.
Almost since nineteen forty-one..