Claare ny Gael 29th August 2021

The Battery Pier in Douglas was opened with an official "handing over" of the Battery by the designer, Sir John Coode, and Resident Engineer, William Powell, to the Receiver-General, Ridgeway Harrison, who was the Chairman of the Harbour Commissioners, on 29th August 1879. In our story in Manx we come to the end of the first chapter with the whisper of the wind, not in the willows, but in the rushes, as Mole spends the summer learning to swim and to row and to enjoy running water. As y kiaull ain - PAUL REYNOLDS - Wave song AVEL DRO - Les endives DUDACI Z CZESKEHO IESA - Lazenska stajdyse OLL AN GWELLA - Men of Cornwall CHRISTINE PRIMROSE & ALISON KINNAIRD - O'n chuir mo leannan culaibh rium/Do chrochadh a thoill thu  CARREG LAFAR - Llef Harlech/Aberdulais BRENDAN BEHAN - Preab san ol SOLDAT LOUIS - Fils de Lorient (FC Lorient-Bretagne Sud) BIRLINN JIARG - Animal farm