Turas Siar 305 - Agallamh suimiúil a rinne Caitlín Nic Conghóile leis an Dochtúir Séamus Ó Catháin, a chaith blianta fada ag bailiú béaloidis i gceantar Dhún Chaocháin.

B'fhéidir go bhfuil baint aige leis sin, an dtuigeann tú, ach tá an dá rud fite fuaite lena chéile, is dóigh liom.

Maybe it has something to do with that, you know, but the two things are intertwined, I think.

Agus insan am sin bhí daoiní ag teacht is ag imeacht ó Shasana is cuimhneach liomsa lán.

And in that time people were coming and going from England, I remember well...

Bus daoine a bheith ag imeacht anonn go Kingslyn a fheiceáil anseo i mí na Samhna ná mí Deireadh Fómhair bliain amháin agus tá cuid acu thart i gcónaí.

A bus of people went over to Kingslyn to see here in the month of November or October one year and some of them are still around.

Bhí bhí siad óg.

They were young.

An am sin ag dul ansin agus tá sin stoptha anois, ní dhéanann daoine é sin níos mó.

That time going there and that has stopped now, people don't do that anymore.

Bhí cabhair acu leis san am sin.

They had help with that at that time.

Nuair a bhí

When was.

na bradáin thart, mar a déarfá, agus an chéad saothrú eile a dhéanann siad ná

the salmon around, as you’d say, and the next thing they do is.

Dhul go Sasana le haghaidh dul ina vet, mar adeir siad.

To go to England to become a vet, as they say...

Beidh cáineadh a dhéantar ar an gcaoi a múintear an Ghaeilge inniu.

There will be criticism of the way Irish is taught today.

Ach pé bealach a bhfoghlaimítear teanga.

But whichever way a language is learned..

Is dóigh a deireadh go gcaithfear éisteacht.

I suppose in the end it will have to be listened to.

Bhí sé sin ag feiliúint domsa: 'Sin an cineál duine atá ionamsa atá mé in ann éisteacht agus

That suited me: 'That’s the kind of person I am, that I am able to listen and.'

rudaí a phiocadh suas mar sin duine ar bith a bhfuil

picking things up like that anyone who has.

luí aige le ceol, cuir i gcás, ná a bhfuil

lying with music, for example, or whatever.