Turas Siar 425 - Micheál Mac Graith as Cill Ghallagáin, go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam, faoi agallamh ag Caitlín Ní Chonghóile as Ceathrú na gCloch.
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Micheál Mac Graith is identified in the title as being from Cill Ghallagáin, a part of the Erris region. The use of local dialect markers and his age group is inferred from the context of the conversation.
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Bhfuil tú ag ceapadh mórán iasc?
Are you catching many fish?
Níl siad ag déanamh chomh maith agus ba mhaith leo.
They are not doing as well as they would like.
Tá muid ag leagan amach chúl seo pointe luath.
We are laying out the back of this early point.
Ach tá siadsan ag leagan amach nach bhfuil?
But they are planning, aren't they?
Na bradáin rás sin agam.
Those salmon races of mine..
Raibh tú ag iascach thú féin nuair a bhí tú i do leaid óg?
Were you fishing yourself when you were a young lad?
Bhí mé ag iascaireacht, ní raibh mé ach.
I was fishing, I was only...
Ó bhí mé sé bliana déag.
Since I was sixteen years old..
Nuair a chuaigh mé amach ag gliomadóireacht mé féin agus m'uncail.
When I went out fishing, myself and my uncle...
Agus Seanbhuachaill eile amach an baile in éindí é.
And another old boy out of the town along with him.
Agus bhí siad sean, an créatúr, agus bhí siad ag tarraingt suas, bhí siad os cionn seasca faoin gcéad anyways.
And they were old, the creature, and they were pulling up, they were over sixty percent anyways..
Agus bhí an jab crua ag an dáin.
And the poem had the hard job..