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bhoil nuair a fuair muid sa gcurrach i dtosach nuair a fuair mise le m'athair thart ar inis gé a bhí muid ar an mbaile

Well when we got in the currach at first when I got with my father around Inis Gé we were at home.

nach bhfaighfeá uair mhaith sa tsamhradh bheadh sí an taobh thiar

Wouldn't you get a good hour in the summer, it would be the west side.

agus nuair a ghabhfadh an ghaoth 'un na farraige mar a déarfadh siad chaithfeá a theacht aniar ar an bhfoscadh

and when the wind would go towards the sea as they would say you would have to come back to the shelter.

a théann an ghaoth os cionn inis gé dhe agus má tá mórán do cheann ní dhéanfaidh tú aon mhaith thiar ann

The wind goes over Inis Gé Dhe and if you have a lot of your head, you will do no good there.

ní dhéanfaidh tú aon mhaith i gcurrach ann agus ní dhéanfaidh tú aon mhaith i mbád ach oiread ann má

you will do no good in a currach there and you will do no good in a boat either there if .

má tá sí ag caitheamh isteach ar an talamh

if she is throwing it on the ground.

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but

bhí an dá thaobh go maith an t-am sin mar déarfá

both sides were good at that time, you might say.

ná ní raibh an oiread amuigh againne tá an oiread potaí amuigh ag fear amháin anois nach raibh amuigh ag an méid a bhí amuigh anseo an t-am sin

nor did we have as much out, one man now has as many pots out as were not out by the amount that was out here at that time.

idir inis gluaire agus

between Inis Gluaire and .

síos go dté tú go baile chaiseal

Down you go to Castlebar.

agus meastú a' bhfuil mórán go stoc fágtha anois nó

and do you think is there much stock left now or .

chuaigh siad mórán

they went a lot

an mórán iasc fágtha

much fish left