Rough Guide to Evolution on Irish Radio and the Origin in Irish

I was interviewed on the Dublin-based radio station, Newstalk Radio earlier today. You can listen to what I had to say about Darwin, his trip to Ireland and his youthful excesses here:

In preparation for the show, a colleague, Roisin Madigan, read out for me the closing words of The Origin of Species in Irish Gaelic (kindly translated some years back by members of the Irish Gaelic Translation Forum), in the hope that I might be able to read them out during the show:

Ta uaisleacht ag baint leis an dearcadh seo ar an mbeatha – lena cumhachtaí éagsúla ata tar éis a n-infheistithe i ndornán foirmeacha nó in aon fhoirm amháin, agus – tráth a bhfuil an pláinéad seo imithe leis ag cúrsáil de réir dlíthe seasta na himtharraingthe , ó thús chomh simplí sin, go bhfuil – agus go raibh foirmeacha as cuimse atá fíorálainn agus fíorshuntasach ag éabhlóid.

In fact, my mastery of the Irish version never got beyond the first phrase (the part corresponding to "There is grandeur in this view of life...") and in any case, there was no opportunity to recite it during the show. But here you can hear the closing words of the Origin in Gaelic read out by Roisin: