Téama

• Is é saol an uas-aicme le linn ré an tíogair cheilteigh téama an sliocht seo.
  • Upper class life during the Celtic Tiger is the theme of this extract.
• Baineann an sliocht seo le saol uas-aicmeach na hÉireann. Is aoir é an t-úrscéal seo ina fheicimid gnéithe den saol nuair a bhí an Tíogar Ceilteach i réim.
  • This extract is about upper-class Irish life. This novel is a satire in which we see the ways of live when the Celtic Tiger reigned.

• Cuireann an t-údar, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne pictiúr den uas-aicme os ár gcomhair. Ach níl an pictiúr seo ró-dhearfach.
  • Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, the author, presents us with a picture of the upper class. But this picture is not too positive.

• Tá an chuma ar an scéal go bhfuil gach duine gealgháireach agus go bhfuil gach rud foirfe sa domhan seo, ach má léimid idir na línte, 'ní mar a shíltear a bhítear'.
  • It appears that everyone is cheerful and that everything is perfect in this world, but if we read between the lines, things are not what they seem.

• Baineann an sliocht le muintir Albright - teaghlach atá ina chónaí i mbruachbhaile faiseanta.
  • This extract is about the Albright family- a family living in a fashionable suburb.
• Tá an sochaí seo go huile is go hiomlán gafa le hábharachas. Tógaimis, mar shampla, an coisir. Bhí Lisín agus Pól pósta le fiche bliain, agus bhí cóisir eagraithe acu i gceann seachtaine.
  • This society is utterly obsessed with materialism. Take, for example, the party. Lisín and Pól had been married for twenty years, and they had a party organised in a week (next week).
• Chuaigh Lisín thar fóir leis na hullmhúcháin agus leis an gcaitheachas! Bhí dhá reoiteoir lán le bia aici, mar shampla ispíní, pióga, arán agus bradán. Fuair sí an dara reoiteoir ar cíos.
  • Lisín went overboard with the preparations and with the spending. She had two fridges full of food, for example sausages, pies, bread and salmon. She had rented the second freezer.
• Anuas air sin, d'ordaigh sí an fhion agus na gloiní. Bhí an teach maisithe freisin, mar shampla bhí péint nua ar na ballaí, agus bhí bláthanna sa teach.
  • On top of that, she ordered the wine and the glasses. The house was decorated too, for example, new paint was on the walls and there were flowers in the house.
• Bhí sí ag iarraidh an lámh in uachtar a fháil ar a 'cairde'.
  • She was trying to get the upper hand on her 'friends'.
• Tá na mná ar an mbóthar uilig mar an gcéanna-néata agus faiseanta. Tá gruaig fhionn ar gach duine acu, ach amháin Eibhlín Ní Loinisigh, agus síleann na mná uilig go bhfuil sí aisteach ar fad.
  • The women on the road are all the same-neat and fashionable. All of them have blonde hair, apart from Eibhlín Ní Loinisigh, and all of the women think that she is very strange.