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Anois deich mbliana fichead ó shin sa mbliain naoi déag seachtó is a hocht thug Pádraic Ó Catháin cuairt ar leithinis an Mhuiread don chlár anseo agus ansiúd ar Raidió na Gaeltachta agus ar dhuine de na daoine ar labhair sé leo bhí fear a dtugaidís John the Adm air nó John Pheait Chit, duine de na Maoileacha.

Now twenty years ago, in the year nineteen seventy-eight, Pádraic Ó Catháin visited the Mhuiread peninsula for the program "Anseo agus Ansiúd" on Raidió na Gaeltachta, and one of the people he spoke to was a man they called John the Adm, or John Pheait Chit, one of the Maoileachs.

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Eh de bhunadh Inis Gé.

Eh from the Inis Gé stock/family/origin..

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Tá John básaithe le beagnach scór bliain anois agus d'imigh Pádraic uainn ag deireadh na bliana seo caite. Céad slán leo beirt. Is é an rud a chuarthaigh m'intinn agus mé ag éisteacht leis an agallamh féin ná go mba bhinn agus go mba bhfreabhsach an bheirt chainteoirí iad.

John has been dead for almost twenty years now and Pádraic left us at the end of last year. Farewell to them both. What struck my mind as I listened to the interview itself was how sweet and lively both speakers were.

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D'fhiafraigh Pádraic di cén fáth an t-ainm John the Admar liom.

Pádraic asked her why the name John the Admar with me.

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Ainm sin a scríobh m'athair ó bhí sé i ngins gé.

That name my father wrote since he was in swaddling clothes.

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Eh

Eh.

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Sílim gur

I think that.

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Chuaigh a athair chúpla uair go hAstr ar na báid seoil.

His father went a couple of times to Australia on these sailing boats.

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Sílim gob in é an fáth ar tugadh air 'Sin é 'sin é.

I think that's the reason he was called 'That's it, that's it.'

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'Sin é 'Sin é, a Athair, sin arís, mar a déarfá.

That's it That's it, Father, that's it again, as you might say...

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'Sé m'athair mór tuigim chuaigh sé go Hastria dhá uair fuair siad thart.

It’s my grandfather I understand went to Austria twice they got around..

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Cé bith go top dream farraige a bhí ariamh ina 'sea dream farraige 'sin é an uair a chaith siad sé mhí an uair sin ag dul amach.

Whoever were the best sea people ever, it was that sea people then, when they spent six months at that time going out...

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Farraige a bhí riamh ann í mar sin.

A sea that was always there, that’s what it was..

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Ar na báid.

On the boats..

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Maideoil.

Show-off..

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