Turas Siar 148 - Pádraic S. as an gCartúr ag caint le Máirtín Mac Donnchadha

Arán

Bread.

Idir sín agus gnúsacht a bhí sé.

Between a stretch and a yawn he was.

agus

and

Rud eile baistí faoi ná

Another thing about baptism is.

Ní ní

Nothing.

Ar chaoi eicínt.

Somehow..

Bhí sé trom, bhí sé rómhór, dhá cholainn, ar chaoi éigin bhí an bhí an meachain ró-mhór de na tosaigh le n-iompar.

It was heavy, it was too big, two bodies, somehow the weight was too much for the front to carry.

Is cosúil.

It seems..

Bhí daoine ag rá, bhí daoine ag leagan amach go mb'fhéidir gur thuas anseo san áit a bhfuil togh thalún thuas anseo ar an gcnocán, áit a dtugann siad an bhunreach mhór air, bhí daoine ag leagan amach gur istigh ansin ag séalaithe fá na na haibhnte ar an tsaol agus gur go raibh sé go raibh sé crosáilte nó brídeáilte le rud éigin eile.

People were saying, people were suggesting that maybe it was up here in the place where there is an electoral district up here on the hillock, the place they call the big constitution, people were suggesting that it was in there with seals around the rivers of life and that it was crossed or bridled with something else.

Go raibh mar a deir go raibh.

May it be as it is said to have been.

Sea

Yes.

Go raibh caidreamh aisteach eicínt in áit eicínt ag gabháil ar bun thuas ansin.

There was some strange relationship going on somewhere up there.

Thuas ansin.

Up there.

Ach abair leatsa do scéal céard a tharla dhó ansin.

But you tell your story about what happened to him then.

Tá scéal

There is a story.