But "bídeach bídeach" etc are ok too.

Ar mhaith leat gloine fuisce?
Braoinín beag bídeach bídeach
But that is for extreme emphasis only. And the "beag" has to be included too.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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Go raibh maith agaibh - as you were asking how they've put it in French, la voici:
Voici le début d'une drôle d'histoire. (which isn't quite what it is in English)
And I've just realised that I've missed out the next line (Sur une sombre, sombre colline
se dressait une sombre sombre ville)
On a dark, dark hill stood a dark dark town.