Turas Siar 381 - Pádraic S. Ó Murchú as an gCartúr ag caint le Máirtín Tom Sheáinín, RnaG: Na bailte áitiúla, a shaol féin, ceird na seibhnéireachta (=siúinéireachta) srl.
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Chuirfí amach iad a bhualadh bosca agus eile ar stopadh aon uair agus tú a dhul ag ceol.
They would be put out to beat a box and other things at any time when you went to music.
Ó stopadh, tiompaíodh amach muid, tá cuimhne agam uair amháin, tháinig muid isteach ar an doras oíche.
When we stopped, we were turned out, I remember one time, we came in at the door at night...
Tiompaíodh amach arís muid an bhfuil a fhios agat muid féin sa bosca an bhfuil a fhios agat ní bhfuair tú cead a bhaint duit. Ní bhfuair curtha amach arís leis. Bhí sé chomh dona is é i dtosach ag troid le ceol, le ceol agus cén ghráin a bhí ar an
We were turned out again, you know, ourselves in the box, you know, you didn't get permission to take it off you. Didn't get put out again either. It was so bad at first fighting with music, with music and what hatred there was of it.
Meas tú cén ghráin a bhí ar an gceol acu?
Do you think how much they hated the music?
Mura gur ceol Éireannach b'fhéidir níl níl a fhios agam.
If it’s not Irish music maybe I don’t know..
rud é nach raibh aon chleachtadh acu air creidim a bheith sna pubanna. Bhí an juke box ag imeacht agus rudaí mar sin agus
something they had no experience of, I believe, being in the pubs. The jukebox was going and things like that and so on.
Níor thaitnigh sé le cuid mhaith de na daoiní a bhí ag ól ann níor thaitnigh.
Many of the people who were drinking there did not like it, did not like it.
An dtaitníonn an ceol leatsa sa lá atá inniu ann anois a chloiseanns tú sna cé go mb'fhéidir nach é an oiread sin tithe ósta a théanns tú ann ach san am chéanna téann tú in áiteacha a mbíonn ceol.
Do you like the music nowadays that you hear, even though maybe you don't go to pubs as much, but at the same time you go to places where there is music?