Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. James Chalenor's written report of December 1653 to the man appointed to the Lordship of Man by the Commonwealth, Thomas Lord Fairfax, is describing the Island's natural resources, and we hear of birds and beasts before moving on to the bedrock. Our story in Manx is of two brothers, whom we discover obliq...

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. This time we turn to some historic prose, written by James Chalenor, who came to the Island after it was placed in the hands of Thomas, Lord Fairfax by the Parliamentarians in 1651. We hear how he describes the coast, the harbours and the agriculture and natural resources of the Island at that time. Our s...

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. We come to the end of William Gell's 1906 poem, 'Mannin Veg Veen : A Poetical Sketch of the Isle of Man', finishing on a flourish as we scale the heights of Castle Rushen. Our story in Manx is a curious tale which mixes environmental concerns with concern about people becoming cogs in the machinery, subse...

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. We hear about Castle Rushen's criminal past - as a house of correction with hard labour - and of its restoration overseen by Armitage Rigby in the early 1900s, as described in William Gell's 1906 poem, 'Mannin Veg Veen : A Poetical Sketch of the Isle of Man'. Our story in Manx is of a young man's dread of...

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. King Orry didn't build Castle Rushen in limestone after his conquest in 1079. William Gell's anachronistic tale prompts us to find out more, but we'll not let that stand in the way of a good tale - nor the tongue-in-cheek rhymes he uses, either. Our story in Manx is a curious one - if the things we decide...

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. We return to William Gell's 1906 poem, 'Mannin Veg Veen : A Poetical Sketch of the Isle of Man', and he takes us from Malew Church into Castletown for Canto IX 'The Rushen Epic'. Our story in Manx is full of violence and bloodshed (for comedy effect). As nyn giaull : DAOIRI FARRELL - Bound for Van Dieman'...

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. This week we look ahead to the many events of Yn Chruinnaght's Celtic Gathering 2019 from Monday 15th to Sunday 21st July. You can find out more at www.celticgathering.im or through Facebook and Twitter. Our story in Manx is of a soul set free amidst the turmoil of a war-torn Flanders. As nyn giaull : JAM...

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. William Gell takes us to a fish hatchery in Port Erin, introduces us to the Quayles of Crogga and William Christian of Ronaldsway (and takes a strangely dim view of Illiam Dhone, it must be said), calls in at King William's College and then remembers Sir James Gell. Although an Onchan man, William Gell sp...