Turas Siar 394 - Pádhraic S. Ó Murchú as an gCartúr agus Máirtín Mac Donnchadha, RnaG: An chaoi a n-úsáidtí an cholainn le rudaí a thomhas.
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Agus ba bhí cineál mórtas ag baint le moill a bheith air seachas cnagmhaíl a bheith air.
And there was a kind of pride associated with being slow rather than being hasty.
Chaithfeadh sé an chnagaí a fheiceáil i gcónaí air, b'fhéidir, nuair a bheadh sé ag dul ag dul abhaile ansin ag máthair bóthar socair san áit a raibh sé ag dul amach.
He would always have to see the woodpecker, perhaps, when he would be going home then to his mother along the quiet road in the place where he was going out.
Chaithfeadh sé na an cineál cnagaíonn sé leis na cúpla leis na cúpla poitín leagtha ina lár i gcónaí.
He would have to, the kind he knocks back with the couple, with the couple of poitíns always laid out in the middle...
Ba in é an t-uisce anois.
That was the water now..
Agus bhí cineál ómós agus digit ag baint le é a dhéanamh ar an mbealach sin. Bhí bhí tú ag rá rud eile a Phádraig ansin cheana faoi.
And there was a kind of respect and dignity associated with doing it that way. You were saying something else there, Pádraig, earlier about...
Go gcuirfeadh sé iontas ar dhuine na rudaí a meáití cuir i gcás anois rópa abair dhá mbeifeá ag ceannacht píosa de rópa ní de réir an tslata a cheannófá rópa aisteach go leor.
It would surprise a person the things that used to be weighed, for example now rope, say if you were buying a piece of rope, you would not buy rope by the yard, strangely enough...
fada ó shin tá cuimhne agam nuair a bhíodh siad ag fáil na
Long ago I remember when they used to get the.
Cailleadh í rópa le haghaidh rópaí potaí gliomach, mar a déarfá, thuigfeadh sé rópa speisialta a bhí ansin, chaithfí a shíniú ansin ar an tsráid ar an mbóthar agus chaithfí fada a bhaint as.
A rope was lost for lobster pot ropes, as you’d say, he’d understand it was a special rope that was there, it would have to be marked then on the street on the road and it would have to be cut long...
Roimhe roimhe mar deir siad roimh an mountial a dhéanamh ná go gcuirfidís sna potaí é.
Beforehand, as they say, before making the mountain, they would put it in the pots.
Ach chaithfeadh siad a tharraingt cúpla fear a cheanglaíodh siad a tharraingíodh bhaineadh siad fad as.
But they would have to pull a few men whom they would tie, they would pull, they would take length out of...
Gur rópa a bhí ann a raibh a raibh a raibh toirt mhór ann.
It was a rope that had a great bulk to it.