An Fear gan Creideamh
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbef/6100072/6250640 Recording date May 1959 Speaker Laurence Godfrey Address Ballindine, Co. Mayo
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The speaker is identified as Laurence Godfrey from Ballindine, Co. Mayo, and he mentions being seventy-six years old, indicating he is elderly.
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Cén aois anois thú mura mura mura dtug?
How old are you now if you didn't give?
Bhoil, níor pioc muise dochar iarrtha, tá mé.
Well, sure no harm was asked for, I am...
Mé sé bliana déag agus trí fichid anois.
I am seventy-six years old now.
Mí na Samhna Rugadh mé
I was born in the month of November.
Bhfuil aon bhfuil aon scéal beag anois agat a d'fhéadfá a inseacht dúinn?
Do you have any little story now that you could tell us?
Bhoil inseoidh mé scéal anois do Don don fhear seo.
Well, I’ll tell a story now for Don for this man..
Faoi fear a bhí fadó ann.
About a man who lived long ago...
Agus níor dhúirt sé níor níor níor níor chasaigh sé é féin ariamh.
And he never said a thing nor did he ever turn himself around..
Ní raibh sé in áit ar bith dhá shórt ach.
He was nowhere of any kind but...
Nuair a bheadh bhéal inse aige
When he would have a mouth to tell.
Síos le tithe pháistí a bhíodh muid amuigh.
Down by children's houses we used to be out..