Translation from Irish Gaelic to English ?

Thank you so much for the offer !  I have absolutely no idea what these might say.  It looks like something my grandfather did in school in 1913 when he was 14 or 15 and living in Paulstown. Here are the 4 pages that I have. 

Here's the first letter (the first two pages).  It was obviously done as a school assignment ("What I did in my holidays"), because the teacher has corrected some errors and written "Good" ["Go maith"] at the end.  Some of it was a bit hard to make out at first, because the spelling is old (there were changes in the 1950's) and some variant or dialectical forms of "standard" words were used.  I'll let someone else try the rest, but will come back if no one else does it.

St. Joseph’sAcademy

Muine Bheag [on the Kilkenny/Carlow border?]

8 September 1913

My Dear Friend

I want to tell you how my holidays were spent.  They began on the 21st of June and I was [back] at school the first day of September.  The weather was very good  and I had a good time.

The first day was spent at Tramore [a beach town south of Waterford town].  The weather was good and I had a lot of fun swimming and playing on the beach when the tide was out.  We stayed there only one day and I would like to have stayed.  We returned home in the evening on the last tram.

The first fortnight or so after that I was harvesting hay.  It was I who did the haycocks.  When we’d done the hay, I had some free time.  Then I played hurling and other games with the boys.  The first couple of days afterwards I was gathering oats and I was driving the horses.

I had a nice time there but now I’m studying diligently again.

I am with great respect for you [a formalized closing, like "Respectfully yours"].

Patrick F_____ [I can’t make out the second name]

Patrick Kelly [Ceallaigh]

Waterford [Port Lairge]

Thank you so very much for taking the time to do the translation and provide the explanation about the spelling and words.  It is all very much appreciated.

Janet

Here's the other letter (the third and fourth pages you posted), since no one else has translated it.  It's written, as you can see, as a response to the first letter.  A couple of words were obscured, but it was fairly easy from the context to guess what they were.

Waterford

9 September 1913

Dear Patrick:

I received your letter and was very pleased when I received it.  I’m sorry I didn’t know that you were going to come to Tramore, because I would have met you and gone down with you and it’s likely that you would have had a better time, because I know a lot more places than you do [I think that’s what he was trying to say in the final clause of the sentence -- the teacher has crossed most of it out, presumably because it’s a bit awkwardly done].

You had nice holidays and it’s likely that you had a lot of fun harvesting the hay and gathering the oats.  I like driving the horses [while] gathering oats.

I like to play hurling with the boys and the men.  I don’t have anything to say right now, but I look forward to you writing [again] soon.

Respectfully yours,

Patrick Kelly

 

Patrick F_____

Muine Bheag

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Hi, Janet! I'm new here and this is kind of unrelated, but I am also a descendant of John Flood and Bridget Whitely. I suspect that Patrick Whitely was my 2nd cousin 4x removed. My ancester (son of John and Bridget), was Charles Flood and he moved to St. Louis, Missouri. I have a family tree on ancestry but it's not paid anymore. I don't have a birth date for John Flood or Bridget Whitely. If you have any info on that let me know! Anyway, it was very cool to see a relative pop up!