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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Bhí an talamh tanaithe ansin ach bhí an t-ádh orthu sin cuireadh suas iad insan áit nach raibh smeach ar bith an dtuigeann tú bhí sé ciúin creidim ní raibh lá thuas go díreach 'Sin é an rud bheadh tú féin bail ó Dhia ort scór blianta an uair sin nó mar sin ab ea scór blianta agus mo dheartháir.
The ground was soft there but they were lucky, they were put up in a place where there wasn’t any mud at all, you understand, it was quiet I believe, there wasn’t a day up exactly. That’s the thing, you yourself, God bless you, would be twenty years old then or so, yes, twenty years and my brother...
Cailleadh iad sin ar báthadh iad sin, báitheadh an bheirt seo, báthadh beirt deartháir linn bádh.
Those were lost by drowning, these two were drowned, two brothers of ours were drowned by boat...
An raibh an bheirt acu sin in aon chor amháin?
Were those two ever together at all?
Amháin in aon churach amháin bhí an gasúr bhíodh m'athair ag iascach rois ann ach an oíche seo.
Only in one boat was the boy my father used to fish with in it but this night...
Bhí sé go dubh dona, bhí t-athair, bhí slaghdán air mar
He was very unwell, your father, he had a cold.
Agus dúirt siad gasúr óg anocht ar Mount.
And they said a young boy tonight on Mount..
Cén aois a bhí sé cheithre bliana déag?
How old was he fourteen years old?
Bhí mo dheirfiúr fuara soir.
My sister was cold east.
Ins na heangacha cheap na heangacha.
In the snares thought the snares...