Transcript

Do thosnaigh an t-athair air teacht isteach. Agus ní raghadh sé isteach. Dúirt sé leis an athair, "Tháimse anso in aonacht leatsa i gcónaí agus níor bhriseas riamh na haitheanta. Agus níor thugais fiú an mhionnáin dom do dhéanfadh mé sóch lem chairde. Agus do mhac a tháinig abhaile tar éis a choda do chaitheamh go sprionlaithe gan (chúr), do mharaís dó-san an gamhain ramhar."

Dúirt an t-athair, "A mhic, tánn tú in aonacht liomsa anso i gcónaí. Agus is leat mo chuid go léir don tsaol dá bhfuil agam. Ach do bhí sé ceart dúinn a bheith suáilceach pléisiúrtha nuair a tháinig do dheartháir abhaile. Agus bhí sé marbh ach do fuarthas é. Tháinig sé ina bheathaidh. Cailleadh é agus do fuarthas é.

Translation

The father pleaded with him (?) to go in. And he wouldn't go in. He said to the father, "I'm here with you all the time and I never broke the commandments. And you never even gave me a kid that I could enjoy with my friends. And your son who came home after spending all he had meanly and without (...), you killed the fatted calf for him."

The father said, "Son, you are with me here always. And all that I have in life is yours. But it was right for us to be joyful and cheerful when your brother came home. And he was dead but he was found. He came back to life. He was lost and he was found.

Commentary

This telling of the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) (together with part 1 from the same speaker) is based on a version supplied to the speaker in advance. See Peadar Ua Laoghaire, Na cheithre Soisgéil as an dTiomna Nua (Dublin, 1915), 191-2. The speaker was encouraged to adapt the text to his own dialect.