Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. Dr John Doran, the editor of 'Bentley's Ballads', published in 1858, has some background information about a story in verse which appeared, 'The Manxman and his Visitor'. We find the source from which a London publisher obtained local detail. Following the death of Boxer in 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn', Squealer explains how a misunderstanding arose that Boxer was being taken to the knacker's yard. However, it's not possible to bring his body back for burial, and somehow the pigs have enough to buy another celebratory box of whisky. As nyn giaull : JOAN BAEZ - John Riley : CILMERI - Ymson : THE CHIEFTAINS - O'Mahoney's frolics : BARRULE - Illiam boght : MAIRI NIC AONGHUIS - Peurt a beul : TAN HA DOWR - Can Scoswas : FFIDL FFADL - Had maip Mon : MOON'SHEE - Fair and tender ladies : AVEL DRO - Ridee six temps

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. We finish off the tale in rhyme about 'The Manxman and his Visitor' which appeared in the magazine, Bentley's Miscellany, round about the middle of the nineteenth century, as the Manxman's guilty memories are punished by a robin which pecks him beneath the eye. In Gowaltys ny Beiyn, Boxer has collapsed and a van arrives to take him, according to Squealer, to a hospital. Squealer gives a moving account of his final words. As nyn giaull Yernagh - dy yannoo ard-eailley jeh Noo Pharick : THE DIVINE COMEDY & DERMOT MORGAN - My lovely horse : GOITSE - Ye lovers all : LIAM O'FLYNN & PLANXTY - The dogs among the bushes/Jenny's wedding : ALAN BURKE - An dord feinne : RITA CONNOLLY - The deer's cry : SHARON SHANNON - The Munster hop : ARCANADH - Ce a chuirfidh tu liom : RIOGHNACH CONNOLLY - Nil se na la : GOITSE - Banjoman button

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. An anthology was published in 1858 of stories in rhyme which had appeared over about fifteen years of a magazine called Bentley's Miscellany. One of those pieces was 'The Manxman and his Visitor', which is not ascribed to anyone, but seems to have been someone with at least some local knowledge. And Boxer returns to his labours, collecting enough stone for the windmill before his expected retirement. Musically we celebrate Dy'Gool Piran, the feast day of St Piran, 5th March : HOLMAN-CLIMAX MALE VOICE CHOIR - Trelawny : BRENDA WOOTTON - Fish, tin and copper : ROS KELTEK - Ewon an mor : THE STORY REPUBLIC - Cornish lads : BLACK-EYED NANCY - Anella : SCOOT - The tinner's fancy/4 hand reel : BRYHER'S BOYS - Song for Cornwall : BRENDA WOOTTON - Silver net : DAVEY & DYER - Dynamite Quay

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. With this weekend containing a leap day, we look at the legislation which introduced the Gregorian Calendar - in retrospect here in the Island. In 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn', whilst the other animals are on short rations, the pigs are getting fatter, on a diet which now contains beer. They also get other perks over other animals. Nevertheless, things are better than they were under Jones - aren't they? And, celebrating Dydd Dewi Sant, y kiaull ain : COR ORPHEUS TREFORYS - Wele'n sefyll rhwng y myrtwydd : 9BACH - Ambell hiraeth : ANNETTE DAVIES & GEOFF LILES - Bara caws/Caws a gwin : MEIC STEVENS - Ond dof y nol : PLETHYN - Tan yn Llyn : MABON - Welsh morris/Tom Jones : MARY THOMAS - Dafydd y garreg wen : DAFYDD IWAN & AR LOG - Yma o hyd : GWERINOS - Trip i'r Orsedd/Ymdaith y brenin/Gwrachod Llandona

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. We return to some advertisements published on the front page of the Manks Advertiser and Weekly Intelligencer, published by Jefferson in February 1820. They contain some striking language and interesting glimpses of life at that time. In 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn', the pigs are filled with the spirit, whilst Boxer struggles on with his split hoof, and the future of retired animals becomes something to think about. As nyn giaull : GWENNYN - En tu all : WILLIE KEMP & CURLY MacKAY - The ball of Kirriemuir : ANAO ATAO - Mormors favoritvals : MONA DOUGLAS & DAVID KILGALLON - Arrane ny niee : CHERISH THE LADIES - Raveled hank of yarn set : AR C'HOARAZED GOADEG - Gavotten ar menez : ALAN BURKE - Idir Corcaigh 'gus Dughlais : GWERINOS - Nyth y gwcw/Nyth y gog/Cyw o'r nyth

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. We hear Stephen Miller RBV explaining to an audience at Culture Vannin in St John's about the inspiration for his own work and what he's been involved in. Having been cheated by Frederick, who has paid for a pile of timber with forged banknotes, Frederick and twenty men with cudgels and six shotguns have now attacked the farm, and the newly-finished windmill is the centre of their attention. As nyn giaull : MAEVE MacKINNON - Silver dagger : FESTIVAL OF CORNISH MALE VOICE CHOIRS - Sing a song of Cornwall : QUEENSLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - Sir Malcolm Arnold's English dances, Set 1, Op. 27, Allegro risoluto : TRIO FROGER - Le navire marveilleux : BARRULE - Illiam boght : STRIICHMUSIG ALPENGRUESS - De senn uf em tanzbode : CATRIN ANGHARAD - Rownd yr Horn : CRUINN - Ceilidh na bliadhna : EMMA SWEENEY - The reed that bends with the storm

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. We join the presentation of the Reih Bleeaney Vanannan 2020 award to Stephen Miller RBV. We hear from Director of Culture Vannin, Dr Breesha Maddrell, Chair of Culture Vannin, Chris Thomas MHK, and from Stephen Miller RBV himself. In 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn', Napoleon surprises the animals by suddenly becoming friendly with Frederick, Pinchfield, but it turns out that they've been duped and are soon facing attack. As y kiaull ain : SGOIL CHIUIL NA GAIDHEALTACHD - Fhuair mi pog : VC10 - Edward H Dafis : FOLK DANCE BAND - Christchurch bells : DALLA - Three sisters/Wheag ha teag : CHARLES CAIN & CHARLES GUARD - False Isabel : JEAN BARONE & CHRISTIAN ANNEIX - Belle, nous irons dans ton grand pre : CLANNAD - An gobhar ban : CILMERI - Y sgwner tri mast : KEEP IT UP - Hector MacKenzie's jig/The skylark's ascension/The dismissal reel/Biodag chailean

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. Something new in English - as we dip into an edition of a newspaper published in Douglas on 3rd February 1820 and enjoy the rich diction of some advertisements. In 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn' there's the culmination of a huge effort on the animals' part as they finish rebuilding the windmill with walls twice as thick as the original. As y kiaull ain : EMMA CHRISTIAN - Breeshey, Breeshey, tar gys my hie : THE NEW SCORPION BAND - Dogger Bank : THE BOLINGEY TROYL BAND - An dufunyans/Woolly monkey : MARLENE HENDY & DILYS SOWREY - Arrane ben vlieaun : CALUM KENNEDY - Air mochd Di-luain : MERA ROYLE - Mylecharaine's march/Moirrey ny gainle :SKEEAL ELLEY - Oie as laa : PLETHYN - Lluen : SWAP - Ore polska

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. We come to the end of James Chalenor's Short Treatise on the Isle of Man, written by him in 1653 and published in book form in 1656. The edition we've been looking at was edited by Rev J G Cumming and published by the Manx Society in 1864. After the bloodshed in Gowaltys ny Beiyn, the animals console themselves with a slow and mournful rendition of 'Beiyn Hostyn' - only to find out that it has now been banned. A new song written by the poet pig, Minimus, it to take its place. Meanwhile, the hard word continues. As nyn giaull : DOUGIE MACLEAN - For a' that : SORELA - Ar lan y mor : FIONNULA & UNA HUNT - Reel, Op 54 (Stanford) : AHANAN - An baner anken : CHRISTINE BREGAZZI - A sea vision : STEVAN VINCENDEAU & THOMAS FELDER - Loudeac : GWERINOS - Fflat Huw Puw : MAIRI NIC AONGHUIS - Nighean chruinn donn dhuit is eibhinn : PATRICK STREET - Music for a found harmonium

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. At the time that James Chalenor was writing in 1653, there was very little exported from the Island. There was also an involved system of importing goods, with four Island merchants appointed to negotiate with each 'merchant stranger' about prices and distribution of goods. The Stalinist purges were the catalyst for this episode of George Orwell's satire, as we hear of what happened and the effect on the inhabitants of Gowaltys ny Beiyn. As nyn giaull : SGOIL NA CHIUIL NA GAIDHEALTACHD - Puirt-e-beul : BRIAN WEBB - Ow avon splann : THE FOLK DANCE BAND - Speed the plough : PIGYN CLUST - Hwyrgan : BRIAN Mac STOYLL & SHORYS y CREAYRIE - Ushtey millish 'sy gharee : SGOIL NA CHIUIL NA GAIDHEALTACHD - Marni Swanson of the Grey Coast : YANN-BER PREMEL - Son ar c'hafe : DEIRBHILE Ni BHROLCHAIN - Seachran Chairn tSiail : KING CHIAULLEE - Continental stomp

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. We go back to the main text of James Chalenor as we conclude our look at the offices of state in 1653. In 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn' Boxer is inclined to believe the evidence of his own eyes and evidence, but the authority of Napoleon persuades him otherwise - and Napoleon then shows his ruthless hold on power. As nyn giaull : BUNSCOILL GHAELGAGH - Arraneyn veih ny showyn oc ; ROBERT BARTLETT & BRENDA WOOTTON - Delyo syvy : CALENNIG - Llantrisant/Y Bregeth : MIKE WADE & IAN ALLEN - Oie vie my chree : GWENNYN (as Tri Yann & Gilles Servat) - Son ar chistr : BBC WIRELESS MILITARY BAND - Lilli Burlero : SKEEAL ELLEY - Oie as laa : CHRISTY MOORE - Messenger boy : SHOOGLENIFTY - Glenuig House

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. When the Manx Society published an edition of James Chalenor's 1653 treatise in 1868, the editor was Rev J G Cumming. A lengthy note by him quotes an Act of 1610 about the garrison's regular duties in Peel Castle and Castle Rushen. It's to that we turn this time. In 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn', the animals are shocked to hear that Snowball is regularly sneaking in by night to do damage. As nyn giaull : BRIAN MAC STOYLL - Baase Illiam Dhone : MARY BLACK - Mo ghile mear : ERIC RIGLER - Braveheart theme : GREG JOUGHIN - Hango hill : SINEAD O'CONNOR - Baidin Fheilimi : PERERIN - Symffoni lawen : SOLDAT LOUIS - Fils de Lorient : JULIE FOWLIS - Mo ghaoil, leig dhachaigh gum mhathair mi : BARRULE - The Laxey reels

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. This time James Chalenor is telling us particularly about some officials who no longer feature in the Island's administration of justice and other functions. However, in 1653 when Chalenor was writing, the office of Receiver (later Receiver-General and Collector, but no longer referred to after 1948) and the Water-Bailiff (coming to an end in 1885) were still in existence. There's a hard winter on Gowaltys ny Beiyn, with the weather making rebuilding of the windmill difficult and food shortages to make the animals' situation even more difficult. As nyn giaull : THE CAST - Auld lang syne : THE DEEP RIVER BOYS - Honey, honey, honey : PIBAU PRESELI - Nos galan (Ynys Mon) : NANA MOUSKOURI - Le pont de Nantes : GREG JOUGHIN & HILLARY GALE, ROBERT SMITH & BERNARD OSBORNE, THE WHITE BOYS & THE MOLLAG BAND - Roie, ben Juan Tammy/St George's sword dance/The White Boys' carval/We are the Mollag Band : CRASDANT - No

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. James Chalenor dated his report to Thomas, Lord Fairfax as December 1653, so there's a lot of interesting historic information about how justice was administered from the parish level, to the sheading and the Deemsters, through to the Governor as representative of the Lord of Man. In 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn' the other animals have qualms about some of the things that are happening, but the pigs have an effective mouthpiece in Squealer. Meanwhile, windmill building goes on. As ta paart dy chiaull ain son y Nollick : CLIOGAREE TWOAIE - Yeesey Creest, Oikan Meein : HORSLIPS - Do'n oiche ud I mBeithil : KATE DOWMAN - Lullaby of the Virgin Mary : PARTI CUT LLOI - Ar dymor gaeaf : FIONA MACKENZIE - Taladh Chriosda : NOLWENN MONTJARRET & THE CHIEFTAINS - Peh trouz 'zou ar en doar? : CAARJYN COOIDJAGH - Tra va ruggit Creest : KESCANA & MERVYN DAVEY - Carol Sen Day : MACTULLAGH VANNIN - Creg Willy Syl

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. James Chalenor has us up in court again. It can be an expensive business, even with fees in shillings and pence - they just keep mounting up. In 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn' the animals are surprised by Napoleon's announcement of trade with neighbouring farms. Surely it means going against resolutions agreed right at the outset? But no, Squealer is there to assure them it's just a figment of their imagination after all. As nyn giaull : LUCIENNE VERNAY ET LES QUATRES BARBUS - Le pont du nord : LAIDIN - Ocum an phriosuin : GYN ENNYM - Nonesuch : MEN ARE SINGING - An maw Kernewek : LINDA NICLEOID - Fill-iu oro o ho/O co bheir leam : WARD ALLEN - Maple sugar : HUW CHISWELL - Rhywbeth o'i le : BUNSCOILL GHAELGAGH - Snieeu, wheeyl, snieeu : STROBINELL - An dro Maiwenn

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. Yet more courts of law that operated in the Island in 1653 when James Chalenor was writing about them. The editor for the Manx Society edition, Rev J G Cumming, also tells us about the oaths of office of the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor and of the Deemsters, plus some stern penalties for upsetting the Governor. In 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn', the animals find that work is getting tougher as they embark on a difficult task - but at least the work is for their own benefit. As nyn giaull: SGOIL CHIUIL NA GAIDHLTEACHD - Thoir mo shoraid : CROWNS - Little eyes : ERLEND APNESETH - Sommarflukt : MATT CREER - Ends of the earth : FFION HAF - Colomen : ALTAN - Paddy's trip to Scotland/Dinky's/The Shetland fiddler : BRIAN MAC STOYLL & PRASH - Kiark Catreeney marroo : DICK GAUGHAN - Land of the north wind : AN TRI DIPOP - Mari-Louise

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. Once again James Chalenor gives us our day in court - or, in fact, several days in several courts, as he reviews the administration of justice as it was in 1653. In 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn' the conflict between Snowball and Napoleon comes to a head, and things take a definite change of direction for the other animals as Napoleon and the pigs secure the reins of power with support from a new force. As nyn giaull : STAA - Kishtey ny yindyssyn : ROGER BRYANT - The miner's anthem : MARCAS O MURCHU - An fear sona/Fuinseog Thir Eoghain/Ril Eibhlin ni Bhriain : INT - L'aspect : FLING - Atlantic swell : BRIAN MAC STOYLL - Inneen jeh bochilley boght : STEVE EAVES - Gwlad y caledi : MAIRE BRENNAN - Oro : BEDLAM - Dr Foster's tumblers/The morning spire

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. We go to appeal this time, as James Chalenor explains how court verdicts could be challenged - but it cost £3 to appeal, which was an enormous sum of money in 1653. In 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn', the arguments continue about Snowball's plans for building a windmill. Napoleon, needless to say, has been dead against it from the start. As y kiaull ain: THE MOLLAG BAND - S'liack lhiam bine dy yough : GWENAN GIBBARD - Cysga di, fy mhlentyn tlws : HARRIET BARTLETT - Leaving Stoer/Reel Beatrice/Stomach Steinway man : MARIE-ALINE LAGADIC - Ma labousig er c'hoad : DAOIRI FARRELL - A pint of plain : STRIICHMUSIG ALPEGRUESS - Ein tanzige Schottisch : THE CLUTHA - Wha's fu? : JIM WEARNE - Maggie May : KING CHIAULLEE - Stuhle/Jig/Bee er dty hwoaie/Carpet burn reel

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. What's changed, what's the same, in the open air sitting of Tynwald between 1653 and today? James Chalenor gives us an opportunity to compare, before giving us the same opportunity with regard to how the law was administered. The animals start by celebrating their victory over Jones and his cronies and award medals. Mollie, though, causes problems. In the winter, Snowball is full of ideas, but there's continual friction with Napoleon. As nyn giaull : MALICORNE - Le chant des livrees : SLAINTE - A Manx lullaby : THE QUEENSLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Cond. Andrew Penny - Sir Malcolm Arnold's English Dances Set 1, Op.27, 1st Movt. Andantino : TANNAS - Mairead na Cuiread/The Bob Parson's strathspey : SIWSANN GEORGE - Rhybudd i'r carwr : STAA - Oh my ghraih/Polka drine : MALICORNE - Reveillez vous, belle endormie : ARCANADH - Ce a chuiridh tu liom : BAGAS DEGOL - Pencarrow/Bodmin riding

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. Rev J G Cumming, as editor of the 1868 edition for the Manx Society of James Chalenor's 1653 report, points out that Chalenor's chronology is a bit suspect. We pause to trace something of the history of Godred Crovan, then jump ahead to Chalenor's own time, and he starts to tell us about how the Island is governed. In 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn', the animals defend the farm against Jones and his cronies in their attempt to retake it. As nyn giaull : SONERIEN DU - Bonsoir, maitre de maison : MAIRI NIC AONGHUIS - Tillidh mi : SCOOT - Ryb an avon : MUIREANN NIC AMHLAIBH - An greasai brog : SIAN JAMES - Y gwydd : GJERMUND LARSEN TRIO - Menuett : CAARJYN COOIDJAGH - Ballakilpheric : SONERIEN DU - Chenchomp tu : EMILY SMITH & JAMIE MacCLENNAN - Cancro cru/The salt necklace/ Ian's No 56