Claare ny Gael 17th April 2022

We dip once again into 'A Poetical Guide to the Isle of Mann' by Rev Thomas Stephen, published in 1832. It mixes proud bombast and hyperbole with tongue in cheek cheesiness and a sense of humour and awareness of its own mix of purple prose and bathos. Jonathan Harker can hardly believe his eyes as he witnesses Count Dracula's way of leaving his room to exit the castle. With the Count out of the way, he decides to explore further than he's hitherto dared. As y kiaull ain - SONIA JONES, SUE JONES-DAVIES & GERAINT GRIFFITHS - Teilwng yw'r oen PEADAR O CEANNABHAIN - Sadhbh Ni Bhruinneala MIKE O'CONNOR & BARBARA GRIGGS - Miss Pitts' minuet ANAM - Mary and the soldier CHAL HA DICHAL - Gavotte des Terrils MERA ROYLE & DAVID KILGALLON - Deep in the earth THE BYRDS - Bells of Rhymney JOHN McCORMACK & EDWIN SCHNEIDER - Terence's farewell to Kathleen ANAM - Cornish gavottes