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)
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The speaker is identified in the title and transcript as Paddy Phat Stephen Ó Manacháin from Glais and Inis Gé, indicating a native speaker from the Erris region.
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Naoi déag ochtó is a seacht.
Nineteen eighty-seven.
Níor fhan muid i bhfad i bhfad ag faire ar bith suas suas sráid agus tá muid chúpla pionta againn agus go ndeachaigh muid ag caint faoin tseanam, mar a déarfá, bydad agus áit ar bith curtha.
We didn't stay long watching anything up the street and we had a couple of pints and we went talking about the old times, as you would say, anywhere at all...
Agus píosa maith caite agaibh roimhe sin go mbeadh
And a good piece spent by you before that would be.
Bhí aithne agat ar ar nuair a labhair mé ar Oileán Uí Chonamara agus ar ar Chlann Mhic Dhonncha as an oileán mór, clann Jimmy an oileáin.
You knew about it when I spoke of Connemara Island and of the MacDonagh family from the big island, Jimmy's family of the island.
Cé raibh, cé, cé as tú iadsan péintéirí chomh maith? 'Sea, óh, uilig adeir siad féin agus
Where were, who, who are you those painters as well? Yes, oh, all they say themselves and.
Bhí beirt leads eile chomh maith ag Cóilí Curran agus Paddy Curran.
There were two other lads as well with Cóilí Curran and Paddy Curran.
Tháinig siadsan abhaile, tháinig Paddy abhaile go Conamara agus cosúil le Paddy Mac Donncha chomh maith agus
They came home, Paddy came home to Connemara and like Paddy Mac Donncha as well.
Siad suas thóg sé bothán úr ansin thiar i gConamara.
They built a new hut back there in Connemara.
Agus bhí aithne mhaith ag mo dheirfiúr orthu agus ní raibh siad go Conamara a chónaí dtuigeadh sí i bhfad go Sasana agus iad féin agus a fear céile siar acu chaith siad cúpla oíche acu.
And my sister knew them well and they didn't live in Connemara, she understood far away in England and themselves and her husband back with them, they spent a couple of nights with them.