2018-02-23

Mugadh Magadh

Mugadh Magadh

Faigheann Coiste Forbartha an Bhaile litir an bealach ar fad ón Ind:
iarratas ar nasc:
Ainm na háite san Ind: Magadh*. Dáiríre!
Ní fhreagrófar an litir ar ndóigh

Faigheann an Coiste tuairim is scór litir mhagaidh
den sórt sin in aghaidh na bliana

Más fíor do na ráflaí
is é an Cathaoirleach féin a scríobhann a leath acu

*Tá áit ann darb ainm Magadh agus é luaite i sraith de dhánta cáiliúla de chuid an fhile Indiaigh Shrikant Verma


Mockery

The Development Committee has received a letter all the way from India:
a request for town twinning
with a place called Magadh*. Honest to God!
Needless to say, the letter goes unanswered.

The Committee gets about twenty such prank letters
on a yearly basis

Rumour has it that the Chairman himself
writes half of them

*Shrikant Verma wrote an illustrious sequence of poems in Hindi about a place called Magadh. In Irish of course, ‘magadh’ means ‘mockery’.