Claare ny Gael 15th September 2019

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. James Chalenor tells us more about the translation into the Manx language carried out by Bishop John Phillips, apparently taking his knowledge of written Welsh as a starting point for what seems to have been a writing system of his own invention. Chalenor also reveals that the Manx people of 1653 suffered from flatulence from eating fish all the time! In our story in Manx, wild animals are decided to be friends, whilst Man is the enemy whose ways must never be copied. Shortly after this, old Major dies, but the animals are secretly hard at work, enthused by his words. As nyn giaull : JOYCE GILREA & CHARLES GUARD : The fowler and the blackbird : CORNCROW - Sweet nightingale : KANERION PLEUIGNER - Er hogig ru : CELIA BRIAR & MARY HUBBLE - The blackbird : AR LOG - Y deryn pur : THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND - Ducks on a pond : MAGGIE MacINNES - Sraid na h-eala : TRI YANN - An alarc'h