Turas Siar 388 - Riocard Ó Bruadair as an Mullach Rua, beannacht Dé lena anam, faoi agallamh ag Máirtín Mac Donnchadha, RnaG. Craoladh an píosa seo ar an 17ú Meán Fómhair 2004.
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beirt ná triúr ar an mbaile eile agus bhí i bhfad níos mó ná sin ann an dtuigeann tú? Bhí
Two or three in the other town and there were far more than that there, do you understand? There were.
Nuair a bhí tusa ag fás aníos i do ghasúr an raibh mórán beithígh beithígh bhainne thart san am sin?
When you were growing up as a boy, were there many dairy cows around at that time?
Ní raibh a stór dhá nó dó ná trí de bhó.
He didn't have two or three cows at all.
An oiread agus choinneodh teach abair.
As much as a house would hold..
'Sea, 'sea ligeadh siad líonais na ba muid féin lenár gclann, 'sea, an dtuigeann tú?
Yes, yes, they would let us fill the cows ourselves with our family, yes, do you understand?
Agus bhí siad ag déanamh úsáid dó ansin an dtuigeann tú ar feadh an lae an dtuigeann tú.
And they were making use of it then, you understand, for the day, you understand...
Agus in aghaidh bheadh siad bhíodh siad ag déanamh uaim chomh maith an bhfuil a fhios agat?
And in return they would miss me as well, you know?
'Sea le maistrigh le le cuinneog le
Yes with masters with with a churn with.
Ar an coinníoll beag 'sea bhí siad ag déanamh bhí siad ag déanamh óh bhí siad ag déanamh stór le haghaidh 'chuile sheachtain. Bhíodh go deimhin 'sea bhí 'chuile duine thart in san gceantar.
On that little condition, yes, they were doing, they were doing, oh, they were making a store for every week. Indeed, yes, everyone around in the area used to be there.
Ach dhá mairfeadh an seandream nach ndéanfaidís an-iontas anois don mheaisín a bhfuil tusa tar éis cur síos a dhéanamh air agus nach mó ná sin an t-iontas a dhéanaidís don bhoiscín beag a raibh tú i do shuí agus tú ag breathnú air.
But if the old people were to survive, would they not be greatly astonished now at the machine you have just described, and even more astonished at the little box you were sitting in while watching it?