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 hAlbain go hAlbain fuair muid cúpla torann. Níl a fhios agam ab é an dara torann. Fuair muid síos go Béal Feirste.
To Scotland, to Scotland we got a couple of noises. I don't know if it was the second noise. We got down to Belfast.
Chuaigh muid ar bhád i mBéal Feirste go sreang reatha in Albain.
We went on a boat in Belfast to a power cable in Scotland.
Ar an bealach fada ach rinne muid an jabanna sin agus tháinig muid abhaile ó chlann gar go halla go Béal Feirste agus aníos ar bhus go Sligeach.
On the long road but we did those jobs and we came home from a family close to the hall to Belfast and up by bus to Sligo.
Bhí isteach, bhí muid isteach ar charr an phosta, bhíodh fear an phosta ag tíocht an uair sin agus dhá mbeifeá san.
We were in, we were in on the postman's car, the postman used to come at that time and if you were there...
Lift abhaile. Bhí lift abhaile sléibhte abhaile. Bhí sé bhí sé 'chuile mhaidin deireadh na bliana anyways. Bhíodh cúpla duine leis 'chaon lá isteach as Béal an Átha. Ní raibh aon bhus aon cheann de na busanna beaga ná mór ag tíocht an bealach seo an uair sin.
A lift home. There was a lift home, mountains home. It was, it was every morning at the end of the year anyways. There used to be a couple of people with him every day coming in from Béal an Átha. There was no bus, none of the small or big buses coming this way at that time.
Agus ar piocadh fataí a bhí tú in ann?
And were you able to pick potatoes?
Fad í piocadh fada í.
She is a long picker, a long one.
Agus nuair a nuair a leaindeáil sibh in Albain
And when you landed in Scotland.
a bhí ag fanacht dhaoibh ansin.
that was waiting for you there..
Ní raibh duine ar bith ach an feilméaraí ach ní raibh feilméaraí bhí amuigh istigh bhí tithe ba
There was nobody but the farmer but there was no farmer was outside inside were cow houses.
ag fanacht anois ach go mbíodh siad sciúrtha réitithe agus
waiting now except that they used to be washed, prepared and.