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 'Sea 'sin é an t-ainm.
And 'Yes' that's the name..
Oíche an raifil an mbeadh siad ag raftáil aon rud an oíche ní bheadh cé gur chroí an raifil.
Raffle night if they would be raffling anything that night they wouldn’t even though it was the heart of the raffle..
Muise, creidim gurb shin.
Well, I believe that's it..
ainm a fuarthas tús óg go bhfuil sé
a name that was given a young beginning that it has.
Ní raibh Micheál Ó Graith as Cill Ghallagán ach sé bliana déag d'aois nuair a chuaigh sé féin ag spailpínteacht.
Micheál Ó Graith from Cill Ghallagán was only sixteen years old when he himself went off as a spailpín (itinerant laborer).
Tá cuimhne mhaith aige ar an lá ar fhága sé an baile.
He has a good memory of the day he left home.
Bhí mé féin agus Dan dom agus
Myself and Dan were there.
Michael Chathaoir, go ndéana Dia grásta air, a Ghearóis agus McDonald as an gCoireán Buí.
Michael Chathaoir, may God have mercy on him, Gearóid and McDonald from the Coireán Buí.
gcaithfidh sé go raibh Pat Herburley, 'sé an gairic.
it must be that Pat Herburley, he is the joker..
Bhí ceathrar ná cúigear i gcuideachta, tháinig cáil faoina ngéan, ba í an Gangman.
There were four or five in company, fame came about their kindness, it was the Gangman..
Fear fear as Acaill a bhí agam agus sé pósta thall.
I had a man from Achill and he was married over there.
Mí bharr an tsráid ná taobh seo bharr an trá.
The top of the street month or this side of the top of the strand (beach)..