Ní bheidh mo leithéid arís ann, which means My recurrence will not exist.
Rico says he still didn't know what it meant, but some further Googling turned up this:
There shall not be his like again (which is, at least, a better phrase).
That line was made famous by Tomás Ó Cromhthain, who wrote a book called An tOileánach (The Islander) that described life on the Blasket islands off County Kerry (photo below), now deserted. They were the last people to inhabit the islands, and there never will be their like again:
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