iris aniar billy willy phillip

go mbeadh sí ag teacht aniar

That she would be coming from the west.

an té is óige a bheith mar bhí mise an t-am sin 'mo ghasúr óg tá fhios agat nói mo lead óg mar déarfá

the youngest one to be as I was at that time a young boy you know or my young lad as you would say.

bhíodh m'athair a dtuigeann tú

My father used to, you understand.

bhí m'athair ag tarraingt suas

My father was throwing up.

bhí sé ag fáil an phinsean nuair a fuair sé fuair mise ag iascaireacht leis

He was getting the pension when he found me fishing with him.

bhí siad go han-mhaith

they were very good.

bhí sé

he was

nuair a gheobhadh siad an pinsean

when they would get the pension

seasca cúig anois atá siad ag fáil an phinsean

Sixty-five now they are getting the pension.

mór dár thug siad anuas cúig bliana

much of what they brought down five years

an bhfuil tú ag rá liomsa go bhfaighfeá fear óg anois scór bliantaí

Are you telling me that you would get a young man now for twenty years?

bhí chomh maith le m'athair i dtosach curaí

was as good as my father at the start of curry.

nuair a bhuail mise leis

when I met him