Turas Siar 319 - Cuairt a thug Máirtín Mac Donnchadha ar Mhicí Joe Ó Conghóile, Ros Dumhach.
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'Sén chaoi a bhfuil tusa ag iarraidh anois ar dhaoine a aistriú aníos go Maigh Eo i dtuaisceart Mhaigh Eo anseo.
That’s how you now want people to move up to Mayo, to north Mayo here..
Dhá mealladh le aimsir agus ag cur an chuain orthu agus ón lá a dtiocfaidís go dtí an lá a n-imeoidís b'fhéidir nach nach bhfeicfidís grianán.
Two temptations with the weather and the harbour pressing on them, and from the day they would arrive to the day they would leave, perhaps they would not see a sunny day.
M'anam go mbíonn sé lonnaithe sách dorcha sách dorcha.
My soul is that it is located quite dark, quite dark..
Bhí mé ag smaoineamh orm féin agus nuair a thosaigh mé ag caint céard a déarfainn leat ná céard b'fhéidir a rá faoin áit.
I was thinking to myself and when I started talking what I would say to you is what might be said about the place..
É a dhéanfadh jab dhó, níl a dhath acu i gcuimhne ach droichead a chur ar an gcaladh seo thíos.
What would suit him is a job; they remember nothing except to build a bridge over this quay down here.
Ní poill Sky é mar a dúirt bhí na Sasanaigh an trom a bhí.
It’s not Sky holes as was said, the English were the heavy ones..
Droichead a chur ar an gcaladh.
To put a bridge on the quay.
An fhaid a chas tú anuas atá bóthar ag dul síos díreach ar na céibh, an raibh tú riamh thíos ar an gcéibh áh gabháil síos?
As long as you turned down where the road goes straight down to the quay, were you ever down at the quay going down?
Go hiondúil síos anois nuair a fhágfas mé dhá tharraingt anuas.
Usually down now when I leave two pull-downs...
Bhí an t-ainm mhaith scríofa agam ach Farry suimiúil blianta fada.
I had written the good name but Farry interesting for many years..