Ár Dover Féin
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tá plean
there is a plan
ó chontae mhaigh eo acaill iorras agus ó iardheisceart dhún na
from County Mayo Achill Erris and from the southwest of Donegal.
thosnaigh sé ag bailiú nirt i ndáiríre i ndiaidh an ghorta mhóir sa ghlúin i ndiaidh an ghorta mhóir
He really began to gather strength after the Great Famine in the generation after the Great Famine.
bhí na gabháltais an-bheag
the holdings were very small.
bhí an daonra fós ag méadú
The population was still increasing.
agus bhí an caighdeán maireachtála an-íseal
and the standard of living was very low.
agus bhí seans ag daoine beagán airgead a dhéanamh ag dul go halbain
and people had a chance to make a little money by going to Scotland.
agus bhí sé ina rabharta an imirce sin idir ocht déag seachtó naoi agus i naoi déag ceathair déag
and it was in the flood of that migration between eighteen seventy-nine and nineteen fourteen.
b'fhéidir ag tús na fichiú aoise
maybe at the start of the twentieth century.
go raibh daichead fén gcéad nó mar sin de dhaonra acla
that forty percent or so of the population were active.
ag dul ar imirce shéasúrach gach bliain
going on seasonal migration every year
b'fhéidir níos mó ná míle ag dul go halbain
maybe more than a thousand going to Scotland.
chuir na fir na fataí
The men planted the potatoes.
bhain siad an bháin
they reaped the field.
agus ansin
and then