Return to Inishkea, 1988 part 2/3

ballaí

walls

right

Ceart

bhí gach rud a fheiceáil

everything was visible

amuigh ar an ngob seo

out on this beak

muna dream an norway stáisiúin míolta móra

unless a group of Norway whale stations

filling station sa bhliain naoi déag is a cúig

filling station in the year nineteen ninety-five.

seo pictiúr de stáisiún inis gé sa bhliain naoi déag is a haon déag

here is a picture of Inis Gé station in the year nineteen eleven.

chaitheas díom ar ancaire

I cast off on the anchor.

mar seo a bhreathnaigh an stáisiún ó dheisceart an oileáin sa bhliain naoi déag is a hocht

as the station looked from the south of the island in the year nineteen eighty-eight.

seo an mhonarcha timpeall an ama céanna

here is the factory around the same time.

agus in aice leis bhí an t-ionad riaracháin

and beside it was the administrative center.

tuigtear do na míolta móra ar ancaire

The whales are understood to be at anchor.

ceann de na báid an duirling ar a bhealach go hinis gé le míol mór ar téad

One of the boats the shingle on its way to Inis Gé with a whale on a rope.

rí an oileáin

king of the island

ó dónaill ar chlé leis an mbainisteoir na reins bróin

from Dónaill on the left with the manager of the reins of sorrow.