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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Go han-Mheiriceá, ní raibh mórán daoiní ann, bhí an am
Especially in America, there were not many people there, there was the time.
Mileodánacha ná fidileacha a bhualadh an uair sin.
Melodions or fiddles were not played then.
Agus an teach deis, deisigh na seachtaine céard a ghlaoigh siad an Wall air ab ea?
And the house fixed, fixed during the week, what did they call the Wall, was it?
An ball a ghlaoigh siad ar ar
The member they called on.
Ina dheiridh ina dhiaidh ina dhiaidh dheiridh chaithfeá an uair sin íoc dhá scilling a bhíodh sé an uair sin.
At the end after the end after the end you would then have to pay two shillings, that’s what it used to be then.
Rinne déarfainn nó dhó scilling.
I made, I’d say, a shilling or two.
Ghabhfadh isteach dhá Tiobraid Bhoil, ní raibh na Raifleacha na dabht roimhe sin ann, ní raibh, ní raibh airgead ar bith dhá mharú ann.
He would go into Tipperary twice, the Rifles weren’t there before that, they weren’t, there wasn’t any money for killing there...
Ach oíche mhall mar a d'úirt tusa.
But a late night as you said..