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”.

D'éirigh an fharraige mar cnoic faoi shléibhte agus soitheach dá bhéil ní rachadh chun cinn.

The sea rose like hills under mountains and a vessel to its mouth would not advance.

San curachaí in éadrom gan teas gan téagar nár bheag an éadáil é i mbéal na dtonn.

In the light currachs without heat without substance it was no small gain at the mouth of the waves..

Bhí an bhoilg ag bualadh ar an gcarraig ó thuaidh dóibh, ag tabhairt dó fógra glan fíor ón mbás.

The belly was striking against the rock to the north of them, giving him a clear true warning from death.

Bhí na hainglí ag fuascailt ar an trá taobh thuas dóibh nuair a leagadh anuas iad i mbéal na trá.

The angels were redeeming on the beach above them when they were laid down at the mouth of the beach.

'Séard dúirt na hardchinn a bhí i bhfad i gcoláiste a fuair fios ón bPápa réamhchaint na naomh.

What the high-ups who had been a long time in college said was that they got word from the Pope about the saints' preface.

Má báitheadh iadsan i bportach Árainn go raibh an breitheamh láidir dá ligean saor.

If they were drowned in the bog of Aran, may the strong judge let them go free.

Anois dá mbeinnse ábalta breith ar pheann ná ar pháipéar ach faraor níl mé in ann scríobh ná a léamh.

Now if I were able to take hold of a pen or paper but alas I am not able to write or to read..

Ní ag bolláin chearsan a bheith an talamh fágtha agus fir dá mbáthadh in Inis Gé, a Phádraic, an lá, bhuel inis dom cé a scríobh an t-amhrán sin.

It’s not by leaving the land to the wild weeds and men drowning in Inis Gé, Pádraic, the day, well tell me who wrote that song..

Seán Ó Monacháin as an Aird Mhóir a chum an t-amhrán i ndiaidh an bháthadh in Inis Gé sa mbliain naoi déag fiche seacht.

Seán Ó Monacháin from Aird Mhóir composed the song after the drowning at Inis Gé in the year nineteen twenty-seven.

Thugas.

I gave..

Deir tú liom nach raibh sé in ann a scríobh ar chor ar bith, an raibh?

You tell me that he was not able to write at all, was he?

Óh ní raibh scríobh ná léamh aige ach bhí sé ábalta na hamhráin a chumadh ar an gcaoi chéanna a raibh Raiftearaí agus a leithéidí roimhe ag cumadh na n-amhrán agus dhá rá agus bhíodh daoiní eile ag éisteacht agus thógaidís síos é. Bhoil thógaidís isteach ina ina n-aigne é agus ansin nuair a thiocfadh duine a bheith ábalta é a scríobh scríobhadh duine éigin síos é.

Oh, he had neither writing nor reading, but he was able to compose songs in the same way that Raiftearaí and the likes of him before had composed songs and recited them, and other people would listen and they would take it down. Well, they would take it into their minds and then when someone came along who was able to write, someone would write it down.

Dáiríre, is amhlaidh a tháinig an

Seriously, that's how it happened.

Daoiní isteach ón tír mhór go dtí Inis Gluaire agus bhí an t-amhrán foghlamtha acu de ghlanmheabhair.

People came in from the mainland to Inis Gluaire and they had learned the song by heart.

Agus bhí iascairí as Inis Gé thíos ansin.

And there were fishermen from Inis Gé down there then..