Turas Siar 367 - Donncha Ó Gallchobhair (R.I.P.) as an gCorrán i bparóiste Acla faoi agallamh ag Seán Ó Tuairisc, RnaG.

Bhoil bin bin iad, mar a déarfá, mo shúile ó thaobh na polaitíochta dhó.

Well, my eyes are very sharp, so to speak, when it comes to politics, as far as he is concerned.

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Tháinig Clann na Poblachta ar an tsaol níos moille ná sin agus

Clann na Poblachta came into being later than that.

Bhí mé sa bhaile anseo ag an am sin agus bhí

I was at home here at that time and I was.

fonn orm mar a déarfá páirt a ghlacadh leo ach

I want to, as you might say, take part with them but.

Bhí mé ag fanacht le mo mhuintir féin sa bhaile agus bhíodh m'athair ag plé le Fianna Fáil.

I was staying with my own family at home and my father used to be involved with Fianna Fáil.

Agus ní raibh mé róghníomhach as an chéad toghchán sin, Naoi déag ocht déag daichead is a hocht mar

And I wasn't too active in that first election, Nineteen forty-eight as it was.

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Ní theastaigh uaim a bheith ag ardú achrann sa bhaile le mo mhuintir féin agus choinnigh mé glan air agus bhí tú ag múineadh scoile anseo bhí mé ag múineadh scoile anseo bhí mé san aisling seo scoil atá ar an oileán níl sé níl sé ann níos mó faraor.

I didn’t want to be causing trouble at home with my own family and I stayed away from it and you were teaching school here I was teaching school here I was in this dream this school that is on the island it’s not it’s not there anymore unfortunately..

Ach ansin phós mé naoi déag daichead is a hocht agus bhí mé ní raibh mé ag fanacht sa bhaile níos mó agus bhí

But then I got married in 1948 and I wasn’t staying at home anymore and I was.

Cead mo chill, mar a déarfá, agus thug mé tacaíocht do Chlann na Poblachta ina dhiaidh sin hiarradh orm seasamh i dtoghchán an Chomhairle Contae.

Permission to leave, as you might say, and I then gave support to the Republican Family afterwards I was asked to stand in the County Council election.

50 nó naoi déag caoga haon.

50 or nineteen fifty-one..

Agus sheas mé agus bhoil chaill mé an toghchán sin le deich vóta bin an méid a sheas, mar a déarfá, a bhí ann ansin sheas mé i dtoghchán an olltoghcháin chomh maith.

And I stood and well I lost that election by ten votes given the number that stood, as you’d say, that were there then I stood in the general election as well..

Maigh Eo Thuaidh a bhí ann, ní bhfuair mé thart ar sé chéad déag vóta ná rud éigin mar sin.

It was North Mayo, I didn't get around sixteen hundred votes or something like that..

Ach leis an fhírinne a

But with the truth.