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)

Raibh?

Was?

An raibh tú i bhfad abair i gcomhluadar déarfaidh muid chlann Jimmy an oileáin nuair a nuair a nuair a óh cuma leis go dtáinig cineál ceardl blianta.

Were you long, say, in the company of, we'll say, Jimmy's family of the island when when when oh it seems that a kind of craft came years..

'Sea.

Yes..

mBíodh sibh ag comhrá faoin oileán, bhíodh siadsan ag inseacht faoin oileáin acu féin agus bhíodh.

They would be talking about the island, they would be telling about their own islands and they would...

Bhí

Was.

Is cuimhneach liom gurb fear eile san áit seo bhoil leaid óg a bhí an uair sin chomh maith ann agus

I remember that another man was in this place, a young lad who was there at that time as well.

Tháinig sé isteach inti agus bhí pionta amháin agus d'imigh sé ar ais, agus nuair a d'imigh sé dúirt fear acu liom adeir sé:

He came into it and had one pint and went back, and when he left, one of them said to me, he says:.

Chonaic mise an fear sin, adeir sé, thuas sa bpub i Tommy Hoe cúpla uair agus bhí leaid eile leis.

I saw that man, he says, up in the pub in Tommy Hoe a couple of times and there was another lad with him.

Is iomaí uair adeir sé: "Chuir mé romham agus ag labhairt leo, ach bhíodh faitíos orm adeir sé go mb'fhéidir nach iad na daoiní a bhínns ag cuimhneamh a bhí ann ar chor ar bith." Agus

Many times he says: "I resolved to speak with them, but I was afraid he says that maybe they weren't the people I was thinking of at all." And.

Adeir sé cá ndeachaigh an leaid eile ní fhaca mé thart le bliain anois ach mé féin tá sé imithe go Meiriceá dúirt sé liom go bhfuil aithne mhaith airgead agat chaith mé beagán anois ba é mo dheirfiúr adeir 'Sea, bhoil sé, is cuimhneach liomsa go bhfaca mé an fear sin agus adeir sé ag iomramh adeir sé as na corraí rásaí na gcuraí i mBóthar na Trá i nGaillimh adeir sé.

He says where the other lad went I haven't seen around for a year now but myself he's gone to America he told me you have good money I spent a little now it was my sister who says 'Yes, well,' he says, I remember seeing that man and he says rowing he says from the racing currents of the currachs on Bóthar na Trá in Galway he says..

Bhíodh oícheanta atá

There used to be nights.

a

a. .

Níl agam ach mé féin.

I only have myself.

Anseo i gContae Mhaigh Eo tá sé chomh maith mar ní fhéadfaidh mé a dhul róghar don chrá.

Here in County Mayo it is just as well because I cannot go too close to the torment.

Ná raibh?

Isn't there?