Turas Siar 446 - Seán Ó hÉilidhe le fear Ros Dúmhach
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The speaker is named in the title as Seán Ó hÉilidhe, and is described as 'fear Ros Dúmhach', indicating he is a native speaker from the Erris region.
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Tá dioscón acu ann, tá bhoil mhaith, tá suim acu ann.
They have a disco there, there’s a good atmosphere, they’re interested in it.
Tá 'sé baile is mó a bhfuil páistí beaga ann anois déarfainn thart insa
It is the biggest town with small children in it now, I’d say, around here.
daoiní ag socrú síos mar sin thart anseo, an bhfuil, ah, bhoil, bhí, shocraigh siad síos, a Sheáin, anois, tá a fhios agat, i m'am féin agus i mo ghé, an dtuigeann tú?
people settling down like that around here, aren’t there, ah, well, there were, they settled down, Seán, now, you know, in my own time and in my youth, do you understand?
Tá maithiú tugtha sin ar an socrú síos anois a Sheáin. Mise tá níl tada a dheangadh le daoiní óga. Níl aon amhras ar daoiní óga an rud atá mise a dhéanamh.
That arrangement has been well made now, Seán. As for me, I have nothing to do with young people. There is no doubt that young people know what I am doing.
Tá a fhios agat anois déanamh amach go ngabhfaí daoiní óga anois amach i ndiaidh caoisín á n-éisc ba agus feedáil ba agus ag tabhairt bia do chaoirigh siar ar na cnoic sin siar. Ní ghabhfaí, ní gheobhfaí inné.
You know now to figure out that young people would be caught from now on after herding their cows and feeding cows and giving food to sheep back on those hills back there. They wouldn’t be caught, they wouldn’t be found yesterday.
Mo mhuintir féin ag gáirí fút, adeir siad.
My own people laughing at you, they say...
Daoine í sin anois ó thaobh
Those are people now from a side.
Amach ag cur ama dom agus mhothaigh sé chomh maith an chaoi a bhfuil rud anois ach ní thig liomsa a dhul in áit ar bith eile anois. Tá mé rótheanna. Tá mé trí scór blianta d'aois.
Out wasting my time and it felt so good the way things are now but I can't go anywhere else now. I am too old. I am sixty years old.
Agus níl aon choice acu, tá a fhios agat, ach a bheith ag plubáil ar na rud a raibh mé déanta ariamh air.
And they have no choice, you know, but to be messing with the thing I was always doing..
Beidh tú ag fáil cnap mór airgid idir Seosamh Nollaig, deir Éamon Ó Cuív:
You will be getting a big lump of money between Joseph and Christmas, says Éamon Ó Cuív.
Adeir mise now bhí sé in am ag Éamon Ó Cuív Uinseann suas air sin.
I say now it was time for Éamon Ó Cuív to take Vincent up on that.