Turas Siar 427 - Pat 'Rua' Ó Raghallaigh (RIP) as Inis Gé faoi agallamh ag Máirtín Tom Sheáinín Mac Donnchadha, RnaG: Báthadh Inis Gé.
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Bhfuil báid, bhí báid againn féin?
Are there boats, did we ourselves have boats?
Ar ar Nabby a thug tú anall as an bhFrainc ab ea bhoil bád?
Was it on Nabby you brought over from France in a boat?
Troigh nó ceathracha troigh bhí tobar inti, bhoil bord as tobar nuair a cheapfadh tú.
A foot or forty feet was a well in it, well a board out of a well when you would think...
An t-iasc chadh sin síos sa bhuaileann sí bhíodh sé an iomarca.
That fish down there in the pound/sheepfold, it used to be too much..
Ag seoltóireacht a bhíodh sibh le hól.
You used to be sailing with drink.
Seoltóireacht, ní raibh, ní raibh aon inneall inti, ní raibh, ní raibh inneall ar bith againn, ní raibh, ní raibh bád inneall ar bith ar an mbaile.
Sailing, there wasn’t, there wasn’t any engine in it, there wasn’t, we didn’t have an engine at all, there wasn’t, there wasn’t any engine boat in the town..
Ní raibh, ní raibh aon
There was not, there was none.