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Claare ny Gael, 14th July 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - July 14, 2024 18:00 - 49 minutesWe find out what happened in the harvest service at Ronague when Isaiah Cregeen was struggling in the pulpit to answer a question put by his brother, Martin - better known as Fairy. This is the penultimate of Dorothy Manley's short stories under the title, Fairy's Ground, and we also move on to ...
Claare ny Gael 7th July 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - July 07, 2024 18:00 - 49 minutesDorothy Manley has introduced us to Isaiah Cregeen, one of the seven Cregeen siblings. Isaiah is a Methodist preacher, and his wife is very proud to take her place in chapel on a Sunday. However, she doesn't welcome the presence of the youngest of the brothers, Martin - known to all as Fairy, an...
Claare ny Gael 30th June 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - June 30, 2024 18:00 - 49 minutesWe finish the case involving the Trespass Jury in Dorothy Manley's short story, 'The Lawyer', involving Benjamin Cregeen and his brother, Jonah. The youngest brother, Fairy Cregeen, after whom Dorothy Manley names her collection, 'Fairy's Ground', is actually only mentioned completely incidental...
Claare ny Gael 23rd June 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - June 23, 2024 18:00 - 48 minutesWe've been introduced to the Cregeen family in the first of Dorothy Manley's collection, 'Fairy's Ground : Homely Tales', told by her narrator, a young man training to be a teacher. The second tale concentrated on Joshua Cregeen, and in the third we become better acquainted with his brothers, J...
Claare ny Gael 16th June 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - June 16, 2024 18:00 - 48 minutesDorothy Manley has made the narrator of her collection, 'Fairy's Ground : Homely Tales', a young man. In the first story, 'The Chimney-Sweep', he was a young lad. The second story, 'The Farmer', has taken us forward by seven years, and the narrator is training to be a teacher - which he has beco...
Claare ny Gael 9th June 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - June 09, 2024 18:00 - 49 minutesDorothy Manley's collection, 'Fairy's Ground : Homely Tales', contains five stories involving a character called Fairy Cregeen. In the second tale, Joshua 'Joss' Cregeen is working for a farmer called Charley Willie, where Charlie's daughter, Alice, takes on a lot of the work. As we move on thr...
Claare ny Gael 2nd June 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - June 02, 2024 17:00 - 48 minutesDorothy Manley's story, 'The Chimney Sweep', is the first in her collection called 'Fairy's Ground : Homely Tales and Poems'. In the 'Homely Tales' she creates a male narrator who brings the first tale to an end and embarks on a second, entitled 'The Farmer'. Jonathan Harker's journal is descri...
Claare ny Gael 26th May 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - May 26, 2024 14:59 - 48 minutesWe looked at the poetry from the booklet, 'FAIRY'S GROUND : Homely Tales and Poems : by Dorothy Manley', and now we turn to the first of the 'Homely Tales' which is called 'The Chimney Sweep'. In our extract from the translation into Manx of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', after the escape of Count Dr...
Claare ny Gael 19th May 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - May 19, 2024 18:00 - 48 minutesDorothy Manley was brought up in Ramsey and from a young age became well-known for her recitation, winning awards for her dramatic interpretations, and widely praised for her acting ability. We hear her poetry from a booklet, 'Fairy's Ground : Homely Tales and Poems'. In our translation into Ma...
Claare ny Gael 12th May 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - May 11, 2024 22:00 - 49 minutesHaving looked recently at a 1965 book of poetry by Barbara Cowley of Peel, 'More Poems of Man', there are some earlier poems which appeared in the pages of the Peel City Guardian from January to July 1963, and probably formed the basis of an earlier collection of Barbara Cowley, probably called ...
Claare ny Gael 5th May 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - May 04, 2024 22:00 - 50 minutesOn 5th May 1830 Thomas Edward Brown was born in New Bond Street, Douglas. Dollin Kelly's one-man tour de force performance of T E Brown's poem, 'Betsy Lee', which he took to the Edinburgh Festival, was recorded by Charles Guard for the Manx Heritage Foundation in 1992. That is now available on t...
Claare ny Gael 28th April 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - April 27, 2024 22:00 - 48 minutesFrom the 1965 collection, 'More Poems of Man', we have pieces by Margery Robinson and David Marno, and even find one we missed by main author, Barbara Cowley, the sister of Margery and mother of David. The friends are about to leave Mina Harker as they go to Carfax, the adjacent house owned by ...
Claare ny Gael, 21st April 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - April 20, 2024 22:00 - 50 minutesWe again dip into the 1965 collection of 'More Poems of Man', in which we finish off the poems written by Barbara Cowley of Peel and hear one written by her son, David Marno. Professor Van Helsing has been saying that he himself, together with Dr John Seward and Jonathan Harker, will stay at Co...
Claare ny Gael 14th April 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - April 13, 2024 22:00 - 49 minutesWe're dipping into a booklet published in 1965 and called 'More Poems of Man', a collection of poems by Barbara Cowley of Peel, with other poems by her son and her sister. There must have been an earlier 'Poems of Man', but whilst that's not to hand, there are other poems which appear in the Pee...
Claare ny Gael 7th April 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - April 06, 2024 22:00 - 48 minutesWe hear of Dorothy Wordsworth's final week in the Island before she leaves at 11.50pm on 19th July 1828 to sail back overnight to Whitehaven. She seems to have been fortunate with the weather during her walking tour, but these last few days bring quite a lot of rain. However, she does prevail up...
Claare ny Gael 31st March 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - March 30, 2024 23:00 - 49 minutesDorothy Wordsworth returns from Ramsey to Douglas on a carrier's cart. En route she enters a clean but poor cottage in Laxey and is not impressed with the superficial sanctity of a fellow passenger, a young Methodist preacher. Back in Douglas she meets up with Henry Hutchinson and Willy Wordswor...
Claare ny Gael 24th March 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - March 23, 2024 23:00 - 48 minutesAfter spending the night in an attractive cottage at Ballure, Dorothy Wordsworth enjoys the pleasant setting once more before setting out with Henry Hutchinson and Willy Wordsworth for Maughold. There she leaves them to make their way back to Douglas whilst she returns to Ramsey. Dr John Seward...
Claare ny Gael 17th March 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - March 16, 2024 23:00 - 49 minutesDorothy Wordsworth's walking tour of the Island in July 1828 has brought her to a cottage at the foot of Ballure Glen, where the hosts are Mrs Brew and Miss Trivett. After a walk out to Maughold, she returns to Ramsey. Professor Van Helsing and his friends have broken into the room ofJonathan a...
Claare ny Gael 10th March 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - March 09, 2024 23:00 - 49 minutesWe left Dorothy Wordsworth, Henry Hutchinson and Willy Wordsworth walking under the trees planted by Bishop Thomas Wilson at Bishopscourt after visiting the good bishop's grave at Kirk Michael. It's onwards north again now as they make a walking tour in July 1828. In our translation into the Ma...
Claare ny Gael 3rd March 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - March 02, 2024 23:00 - 48 minutesTuesday 8th July 1828 had been a tiring day's walk for Dorothy Wordsworth from Castletown to Port St Mary, over the Meayll to Port Erin, then up over Cronk ny Arrey Laa and down through Dalby to Peel. However, she's now up and ready for the next day. Professor Van Helsing is waiting for the rig...
Claare ny Gael 25th February 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - February 24, 2024 23:00 - 48 minutesWe're joining Dorothy Wordsworth in July 1828 as she makes a walking tour which has taken her to Castletown, then on the next day to Port St Mary and Port Erin. Now she's about to climb up and over to Peel, through Dalby and Glen Maye. In an episode from Bram Stoker's Dracula in a translation i...
Claare ny Gael 18th February 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - February 17, 2024 23:00 - 50 minutesDorothy Wordsworth is out walking again during her visit to the Island of 1828, and we hear her description of the gardens around the Duke of Atholl's Castle Mona before she undertakes a walk from Douglas to Castletown and then to Port St Mary and Port Erin. In our translation into the Manx Gae...
Claare ny Gael 11th February 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - February 10, 2024 23:00 - 49 minutesDorothy Wordsworth continues describing what she sees on her walks in and around the Douglas area and the people she meets as she stays with Joanna and Henry Hutchinson on the South Quay in Douglas. Her nephew, poet William Wordsworth's youngest son, Willy, is also staying there this summer of 1...
Claare ny Gael 4th February 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - February 03, 2024 23:00 - 49 minutesAfter seeing Rev Robert Brown conducting a service at St Matthew's, Dorothy Wordsworth now goes to call on him and his family. As well as her account of their home, we also hear from a famous son of the family, Hugh Stowell Brown, as he recalls the house in New Bond Street in Douglas. In our tr...
Claare ny Gael 28th January 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - January 27, 2024 23:00 - 48 minutesDorothy Wordsworth has come to the Island in 1828 and is staying on the South Quay. She goes to church services on Sunday morning and enjoys walks and socialising, including going to visit the family of the Rev Robert Brown. Robert Brown had sent a volume of his poetry to Dorothy's brother, the ...
Claare ny Gael 21st January 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - January 20, 2024 23:00 - 48 minutesDorothy Wordsworth, sister of the poet, William, kept a diary of her visit to the Island in 1828, when she stayed with Henry and Joanna Hutchinson on the South Quay in Douglas. They were brother and sister to William Wordsworth's wife, Mary. The Wordsworths also had friends in the Island, includ...
Claare ny Gael 14th January 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - January 13, 2024 23:00 - 47 minutesJ J Kneen's chapter on nicknames in his 1937 'Personal Names of the Isle of Man' reprinted almost verbatim what A W Moore had written in his 1890 'Surnames and Place-Names of the Isle of Man', but with some additions and alternatives. We look at those additions and alternatives. We hear that M...
Claare ny Gael 7th January 2024
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - January 06, 2024 23:00 - 48 minutesHaving started with J B Keig's nicknames in Ballaugh, we've moved on to A W Moore's thoughts on nicknames throughout the Island. As we find out, that work from 1890 was the framework for what J J Kneen had to say about nicknames in his book from 1937. In our translation of Bram Stoker's Dracula...
Claare ny Gael 17th December 2023
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - December 16, 2023 23:00 - 48 minutesA W Moore is perhaps getting a bit enthusiastic in researching the parish registers for nicknames, as he seems to want to include descriptions that have been added to give a little extra information about people mentioned. However, we do come on to ways of naming people as well at a time when su...
Claare ny Gael 10th December 2023
Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio - December 09, 2023 23:00 - 48 minutesWe've started looking at A W Moore's 1890 publication, 'The Surnames and Place-Names of the Isle of Man' for its section on nicknames, taking up where we left off with our survey of the nicknames used in Ballaugh collected by J B Keig. In our episode from the translation into the Manx Gaelic of...
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