iris aniar billy willy phillip

ó tá praghas bhuel tá ach mé théann aniar na mblianta b'fhéidir nach bhfuil go leor chor ar bith

Oh the price is well but I go back over the years maybe there is not enough at all.

a bhí deaisín gliomach

that was a lobster sauce

agus cúig phunt a bhí deaisín gabhal mhara

and five pounds was the price of a sea fork.

anois nuair a thosaigh mise i dtosach

now when I started at first

anois

now

naoi déag seasca sé

Nineteen sixty-six.

bhí mé ag iascaireacht in inis gluaire

I was fishing in Inis Gluaire.

le na rílí

with the reels

fir a nglaonn siad na báin air

men they call the white on him.

sa mbaile seo

in this town

bhí mise ag iascach le micheál agus a bhí feargal ríleach ag iascach le seán

I was fishing with Micheál and Feargal was fishing with Seán.

beirt rílí daoine muintearach agus bhí mise i mo leaid óg ansin le

two real people related and I was a young lad then with

le micheál i naoi déag seasca haon agus naoi déag seasca a sé

by Michael in nineteen sixty-one and nineteen sixty-six.

bhí saol caite acu sin ag iascaireacht a dtuigeann tú

they had spent their lives fishing, you understand.