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’.
