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Séan Ó hEinirí
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rug sé ar an mbuicéad uisce bhroghach sin
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he grabbed [lit: on] the bucket of dirty water there agus
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fair
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Séan Ó hEinirí
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d’oscail sé an doras agus chaith sé amach ar an gcnoc é.
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he opened the door and he threw it out onto the hillside
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fair
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Séan Ó hEinirí
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Agus ar áit na bonn nuair a chaith sé amach an t-uisce ins an doras
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And the moment he threw the water out the door,
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fair
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Séan Ó hEinirí
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d’éirigh an tslua meáin pháistí
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up rose a host of ‘mid children’ (children between worlds)
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fair
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Séan Ó hEinirí
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agus thosaigh siad ag gártháil.
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and started shouting
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fair
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Séan Ó hEinirí
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Chonaic sé ag imeacht iad mar a bheadh cnap míoltóga ón teach
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he saw them disappear, as would a swarm of midges, from the house
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fair
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Séan Ó hEinirí
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agus níl ann go ndearna sé aníos é go dtí an leaba san áit a raibh a bhean ina codladh. Agus d’inis sé an scéal daoithe
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and he barely made it back down to the bed where his wife was sleeping. And he told her what happened [lit: the story]
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fair
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Séan Ó hEinirí
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‘Céard ‘tá ort?’ a dúirt sí.
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"What's wrong with you?" She said
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fair
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Séan Ó hEinirí
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"ceard 'tá ort?", a dúrt sí
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"what's wrong with you?" she said
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fair
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Séan Ó hEinirí
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Á bhail,” a dúirt sé, “tá rud cluinstes anocht agam nár mhoithigh mé ariamh
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"O well", he said, "I head something tonight that I never hear before".
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fair
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