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Cur síos ag Seán Ó Con Ceanainn, as an Móinteach, Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe, ar an iománaíocht (na camógaí) agus ar an bpeil; ar bazaar na Faiche Móire an áit a casadh a bhean chéile air aimsir rástaí na Gaillimhe; a gcéad ghluaisteán, Baby Austin, i 1956, agus haicní spárálach a gcomharsan; sábháilt agus díol na móna; an saol pósta buil a mhuintir i gcomparáid le saol an lae inniu; damhsaíochaí, bannaí, ceol, agus a athair ag píobaireacht i Mionlach mar ar casadh a bhean air (máthair Sheáin); tithí ósta; saothrú páí agus ganntanas airgid; beatha; agus siopaí.
(Seán Concanonn from Montiagh (South), Claregalway, Co. Galway, discusses: hurling and football; Eyre Square bazaar, where he first met his wife, during the Galway Races; their first car, a Baby Austin, in 1956, and their neighbours' economic hackney; saving and selling turf; married life sharing the family home in comparison to today; dances; bands, music, and how his father met his own wife while piping in Menlough; public houses; working wages and the scarcity of money; food; and shops.)
Part of the Taisce Bheo na nGael project in which the UHI Language Sciences Institute, together with Irish partners, record the natural speech of Irish and Scottish Gaelic speakers in their own communities with user-friendly equipment and techniques.
A Word-linked transcript is available here: multidict.net/cs/12529
Cur síos ag Seán Ó Con Ceanainn, as an Móinteach, Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe, ar an iománaíocht (na camógaí) agus ar an bpeil; ar bazaar na Faiche Móire an áit a casadh a bhean chéile air aimsir rástaí na Gaillimhe; a gcéad ghluaisteán, Baby Austin, i 1956, agus haicní spárálach a gcomharsan; sábháilt agus díol na móna; an saol pósta buil a mhuintir i gcomparáid le saol an lae inniu; damhsaíochaí, bannaí, ceol, agus a athair ag píobaireacht i Mionlach mar ar casadh a bhean air (máthair Sheáin); tithí ósta; saothrú páí agus ganntanas airgid; beatha; agus siopaí.
(Seán Concanonn from Montiagh (South), Claregalway, Co. Galway, discusses: hurling and football; Eyre Square bazaar, where he first met his wife, during the Galway Races; their first car, a Baby Austin, in 1956, and their neighbours' economic hackney; saving and selling turf; married life sharing the family home in comparison to today; dances; bands, music, and how his father met his own wife while piping in Menlough; public houses; working wages and the scarcity of money; food; and shops.)
Part of the Taisce Bheo na nGael project in which the UHI Language Sciences Institute, together with Irish partners, record the natural speech of Irish and Scottish Gaelic speakers in their own communities with user-friendly equipment and techniques.
A Word-linked transcript is available here: multidict.net/cs/12529
