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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Bhoil, cén t-aonú is mó a tháinig tú anois, adeir sé, ó d'fhága tú an choláiste?
Well, what number are you now, he says, since you left college?
Sceitheadh adeir sé a bhí le thaobh an bhóthair.
A ditch, he says, was beside the road.
Agus rinne sé cithe fearthainne inné, adeir sé, agus mé go béarach ar aghaidh.
And it rained heavily yesterday, he says, and I was just going on ahead.
Nuair a ghabh mé isteach faoi adeir sé agus théadh mé suas ní raibh aon bhileog ar an sceitheadh adeir sé nach raibh dlí ghrá síos scríofa air.
When I went in under it he says and I would go up there was no leaf on the branch he says that no law of love was written on it..
Bhoil, más sin é an scéal adeir an sagart, ba in é an sagart nach ligfeadh don fear a bheith curtha.
Well, if that's the story the priest says, it was the priest who wouldn't allow the man to be buried.
Más sin é an scéal adeir sé gur réitigh díolús.
If that is the case, he says that forgiveness resolved it.
Agus bhain sé dhá bhróga, ní chuirfidh mé bróga héad arís orm, adeir sé chúl Swat mé.
And he took off two shoes, I will not put shoes on my head again, he says, I'm back from Swat..
Le súil go dtabharfadh an té maidin meastú?
Hoping that the person would give an estimate in the morning?
Agus ba in é anois ainm an scéil sin poilltí dhóibh é.
And that was now the name of that story they gave it.
Níl mórán an scéil sin ach.
There’s not much to that story but...