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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Agus cén uair a thosaigh sé sin?
And when did that start?
Bhoil, bhí sé romham agamsa.
Well, it was in front of me..
Ba in é, bhí sé rómhaith, ní fhaca mé dhá dhá chuid é anois a chonaic mé.
That was it, it was too good, I haven't seen its like since I saw it..
Ceann V i dTeach Phaidín Feel air.
V head in Páidín's House Feel it..
Tháinig na dteach a mhuintire nó cheapfainn.
His family's houses came, or so I would think..
Níl a fhios just cleasaíocht a bhí ann cleasaíocht.
I don't know, it was just trickery, trickery.
Cleasaíocht anois 'Sin é an cleasaíocht óh ní raibh duine ar bith ag baint leis an cleas agus caitheadh an oíche.
Juggling now 'That is the juggling oh there was nobody involved with the trick and the night was spent...
Agus dhéantaí ag tús na hoíche.
And it was done at the beginning of the night..
B'fhéidir muid suas ag a b'fhéidir deich a chlog don haon dhéag ó ní fhantaí go meánoíche anuas deich a chlog ná thart ansin.
We might be up at maybe ten o’clock to eleven because we wouldn’t stay until midnight, down from ten o’clock or around then.