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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'Sea, cineál, bheadh sé cé mhéad bó a gheobhadh sí agus rud mar sin bhoil níorbh aon rud ceart é sin a fheiceáil chor ar bith.
Yes, kind of, it would be how many cows she would get and things like that, well that was nothing right to see at all..
dhóibh agus cé mhéad caoi eile a bheith aici agus 'chuile shórt eile?
for them and how many other ways she could have and every other sort of thing?
Nó ní raibh sé sin ceart chor ar bith.
Or that wasn’t right at all..
Ach ba in é an cineál rud a bhí ann an uair sin, a Sheáin.
But that was the kind of thing it was at the time, Seán.
Agus le buidéal leat é sin, buidéal poitín le buidéal.
And with a bottle with you for that, a bottle of poitín with a bottle...
San uair sin tá a fhios agat buidéal fuisce dearg agus d'ólfaí an buidéal ansin b'fhéidir go n-ólfaí dhá bhuidéal.
At that time you know a bottle of red whiskey and the bottle would be drunk then maybe two bottles would be drunk.
Ach 'sin é an chaoi a raibh sé an uair sin.
But that's how it was at that time..
Dara viceáil an-mhaith chomh maith.
Second vicing very good as well..
Bhoil na fir a bhí ag dul amach ní bhíodh mná ag dul ag dul thart mar sin áh ní raibh ní raibh ní raibh na fir a bhí ag dul thart na fir is ansin
Well, the men who were going out, women wouldn't be going around like that, ah, there weren't, there weren't, there weren't the men who were going around, the men and then.
Nuair a gheobhfaí an bhean, ansin tá a fhios agat teach na mbreá, ansin a bheith an bhanna seo.
When the woman would be found, then you know the fine house, then to have this connection..