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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Bhí go maith agus ní raibh go holc, chuaigh sí ag an Barty agus d'inis sí.
It was good and not bad, she went to the Barty and she told...
Bhoil, adeir sí, tháinig.
Well, she says, it came...
Duine uasal ag iarraidh lóistín ormsa tráthnóna.
A gentleman wants accommodation from me this evening.
Agus tá mé ag dul amú go mór, adeir sí, ar nós duine uasal atá ann.
And I am getting very lost, she says, like a noble person who is there..
Siad fiosraithe ag an Barty.
They are being questioned by the Barty.
Agus nuair a fuair fear an tí fios cé bhí ann, cén sórt cuma Caitliceach a bhí ann agus go mba sagart?
And when the man of the house found out who it was, what sort of Catholic appearance he had and that he was a priest?
Ní maith leis a chaitheamh isteach ag na gadhair.
He doesn't like to throw it in to the dogs.
Dul isteach sa teach mór dó, chroch sé a chóta mór suas.
Entering the big house, he hung up his big coat.
Leaba na gcadhair a dhul dhá ithe 'Sén chaoi ar thosaigh siad dhá líonadh.
The bed of the chairs to go eating them That’s how they started filling them..
Agus ar maidin nuair a tháinig fear na gcathaoir.
And in the morning when the man of the chairs came...