Turas Siar 177 - Paddy Phat Stephen Ó Manacháin as Glais agus Inis Gé ag cur síos ar a shaol. Máirtín Tom Sheáinín a chuir faoi agallamh é. (Tá fadbhanna fuaime leis an gcomhad ach dá ainneoin sin, síleadh gurbh fhiú é a roinnt anseo)

D'oibrigh tú, d'oibrigh tú crua do chuid laethanta thall thall thar sáile ar oibrigh?

You worked, you worked hard for your days over there overseas working.

Muise, beibrí ag rá mé.

Well, I keep saying...

yeah

Yeah. .

Chaithfeá oibriú ann, chaithfeadh, chaithfeá obair ar na feirmeacha i dtosach.

You would have to work there, you would, you would have to work on the farms at first.

Raibh tú óg nuair a chuaigh tú go Sasana?

Were you young when you went to England?

Ocht mbliana déag cailleadh m'athair nuair a bhí mé cúig bliana déag agus chuaigh mé ag iascach ansin gliomach ar feadh dhá bhliain agus

Eighteen years my father died when I was fifteen and I went fishing for lobster then for two years and.

Chuaigh mé go Sasana ansin i naoi déag caoga ag obair na feirmeacha.

I went to England then in nineteen fifty working on the farms.

An bhféadfainn fiafrú dhuit an raibh Pat ag breathnú aisteach dhuit nuair a nuair a nuair a chuaigh tú anonn ann an raibh?

Could I ask you if Pat looked strange to you when you went over there, did he?

An raibh mórán bailte móra feicthe agat roimhe, mar a déarfá, an raibh?

Had you seen many big towns before, as you would say, had you?

Ní raibh baile mór ar bith tosaithe ag imeacht anuas.

No big town had started to come down.

Ná raibh?

Isn't there?

'Sea.

Yes..

Óh bhí sé as go maith.

Oh, he was doing well.

ach go mar a déarfá na fir de na

but as you would say the men of the.

Col ceathracha dhom féin, col ceathrar beirt acu, col ceathracha dom agus iadsan ó Dum go Sasana anois i dtosach agus tú féin, bhí siadsan an-mhaith, an-cháiliúil agus

Cousins to myself, two of them cousins, cousins to me and they from Dum to England now at first and yourself, they were very good, very famous and.