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A thig ná tit orm C7
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Níor theastaigh ó Mhaidc dul ar scoil agus d’úsáid sé gach seift sa leabhar chun é a sheachaint. | Maidc didn't want to go to school and used every trick in the book to avoid it. |
Theastaigh óna thuismitheoirí go mbeadh sé ina mhúinteoir agus go mbeadh léine agus carbhat air. Cheap na daoine fásta ag an am gur phost iontach é an mhúinteoireacht mar ní bheiféa ag sclábhaíocht sna páirceanna. Theip air na grádanna a fháil chun múinte | His parents wanted him to be a teacher and to wear a shirt and tie. The adults at the time thought that teaching was a great job because slaving away in the fields was not enough. He failed to get the grades to teach and he was happy with that. |
Dúirt a mháthair leis go mbeadh air freastal ar Cheardscoil an Daingin nó dul amach ag obair d’fheirmeoir ar bheagáin pá mar sclábhaí nó spailpín. Chuir sé ceisteanna ar daoine timpeall na háite agus chuala sé rudaí deasa faoin gceardscoil. Shocraigh sé a | His mother told him that he would have to attend The Workschool in or go out and work for a farmer for little pay as a slave. He asked people around the place and heard nice things about the workshop. He decided to try it out. |
Chuaigh sé ann i seanghluaistéan meiricéanach, Buick. Bhí trí bhinse ann agus bhí an comhluadar go hiontach. | He went there in an old American car, a Buick. There were three benches and the company was great. |
Ní raibh suim ar bith aige sna leabhair ach thaitin an scoil nua leis mar bhí sé ag obair lena lámha den chuid is mó- trí lá sa tseachtain. Bhí binsí adhmaid sa seomra agus roinnt uirlisí ag gach binse. Chuaigh na cailíní go seomra eile agus rinne siad áb | He had no interest in books but he liked the new school because he was working mostly with his hands - three days a week. There were wooden benches in the room and some tools at each bench. The girls went to another room and did different subjects. |
Bhí múinteoir iontach aige, an múinteoir adhmadóireachta, Mícheál Ó hIarnáin agus tugadh an leasainm Maidhc 'An Adhmaid' air. B’as Co na Gaillimhe é agus bhain siad taitneamh as a chuid Gaeilge mar bhí sé difriúil. | He had a great teacher, the woodworking teacher, Mícheál Ó hIarnáin and he was nicknamed Maidhc 'The Wood'. He was from Co Galway and they enjoyed his Irish because it was different. |
Gach am lóin chuaigh siad go dtí tigh Mhaidhcín Fuacht le haghaidh toitíní, gréasaí ab ea é. | Every lunchtime they went to Madhicín Fuacht's house for cigarettes, he was a cobbler. |
Bóthar mo Leasa | My Interest Road |