Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. This time, James Chalenor turns to the Island's history, revealing that he took part in some early archaeological exploration of a round mound during his time here in the 1650s. In 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn' the pigs are reserving the milk and apples for themselves - but it's all for the noblest of reasons. Meanwhile, the neighbours try to stop the revolution from spreading. Our music is based round the recent winners of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards: THE TRIALS OF CATO - Gloria : MADDIE MORRIS - Please just lie : BRIGHDE CHAMBEUL - Eastern European dance tunes : RIOGHNACH CONNOLLY - Nil se na la : YE VAGABONDS - The foggy dew : MERA ROYLE & DAVID KILGALLON - Deep in the earth : KARINE POLWART - I burn but I am not consumed : DERVISH - Welcome poor Paddy home : CATRIN FINCH & SECKOU KEITA - Terengah-bah

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. We're visiting the Island's 17 ancient parishes with James Chalenor, and his sometimes slightly off-beam explanations of their dedication. He's also telling us who were the clergy there in 1653. As usual, it's an opportunity to explore history, people and places as Chalenor conducts us round the Island. And it's another visit to Gowaltys ny Beiyn, as we hear how the animals start to take on the work of the farm. As nyn giaull: RUTH KEGGIN - Mish as y cheayn : BOB ROBERTS - Gwenno Penygelli : THE OUTSIDE TRACK - The testimonial : DEIRBHILE NI BHROLCHAIN - A stor, a stor, a ghra : ROBERT TEAR with PHILIP LEDGER (pno) - La belle est au jardin d'amour : ANAO ATAO - Sunny Corner/Frogpool : CATRIONA WATT - A'bhean eudach : SKEEAL - Ree marrey : FORZH PENAOS - Quatre cavaliers

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. James Chalenor continues with his tour of the seventeen ancient parishes, trying to identify the dedication (sometimes rather more imaginatively than accurately), and tells us of the incumbents in 1653, when he was writing. Our story in Manx continues as the animals begin the work of farming Gowaltys ny Beiyn for themselves. As nyn giaull - CLIOGAREE TWOAIE - Carval ny drogh vraane : JOHN AC ALUN - Fy fydd yn un : FOUR PLAY - Villapourcon : MACMASTER/HAY - Tha mi fo churam : AN TRI DIPOP - Tri arthileurs : SERIOUS KITCHEN - In the kitchen/On the mash : DEEP END OF THE FORD - The pillow talk : A FESTIVAL OF CORNISH MALE VOICE CHOIRS - Cornwall, I love thee : KING CHIAULLEE - The colonel's strathspey/Down by the green bushes/T'eh ny hoyn

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. James Chalenor is telling Thomas, Lord Fairfax about the Island's ecclesiastical history - at least, as far as he understood it in 1653, and whilst his ideas were sometimes ingenious, they weren't always accurate. We hear various notes by the editor of the Manx Society's edition published in 1868, Rev J G Cumming. And in our story in Manx, the former Gowaltys y Vannor owned by Mr Jones becomes indeed Gowaltys ny Beiyn. As nyn giaull : GWENAN GIBBARD - Gwenni aeth I Ffair Pwllheli : BARNEY MacKENNA - Within a mile of Dublin : SKEEAL - Mannin veg veen : EMILIEN ROBIC & JEROME GUILLARME - Gavotte : ISHBEL MacASKILL - Canan nan Gaidheal : ANAO ATAO - Phoebe/Porth Lystry : MICHAEL BLACK & THE BLACK FAMILY - Dark and roving eye : THE OUTSIDE TRACK - Reel de la fesse crampee/Neckbelly

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. James Chalenor tells us of Bishop John Phillips, about whom Rev J G Cumming contributes a biographical note in the Manx Society edition of Chalenor's report to Thomas, Lord Fairfax in 1653. Chalenor then moves on to Bishop Richard Parr. In our instalment of our story in Manx, Gowaltys ny Beiyn, the Revolution arrives sooner and easier than any of the animals of Gowaltys y Vannor were expecting. Musically, we follow the September edition of Culture Vannin's Kiaull Manninagh Jiu, compiled by Chloe Woolley : CHRISTINE COLLISTER - We spoke today : ED BRADSHAW - Reeaghyn dy Vannin : ADAM MELVIN - You and me : SCRAN - Dhooraght : BISKEE BRISHT - Not again : I SALONISTI - Valse Septembre : GREG JOUGHIN & BARRULE - Ven-ainshter dewil : PEDDYR CUBBERLEY, FIANA NI CHONAILL & KIRSTY LAWRENCE - Tamo's frolics

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. After James Chalenor's comments about the Manx people being full of wind because of their diet heavy in fish, he turns to higher thoughts with the history of the Manx church this time. In our Manx story, the pigs develop a whole political theory from old Major's ideas, and set about educating the others. As nyn giaull: THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND - Puppies : MARJANIG LARC'HANTEC - La complainte de la blonde biche : MONA DOUGLAS - Arrane y vlieaun : LIAM O'FLYNN - The dogs among the bushes/Jenny's wedding : THE WATERSONS - l'Anson's racehorse : TORQUIL MacLEOD & CONGREGATION OF BACK FREE CHURCH - Salm 42: 1-2 (Glencairn) : JOHN THOMAS - Hen geffyl wen : DALLA - Woolly monkey

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

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. This week we hear from academic Zoe Russell of the University of Stirling, who's been spending a week in the Island finding out about how the Island's culture and the natural world come together in the UNESCO Biosphere status, which she'll be comparing with the situation in the Wester Ross Biosphere in Scotland. More from 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn' as Major incites the animals to Rebel. As nyn giaull : AALIN CLAGUE & PETE WHITEHEAD - Vuc Ghoo : ALAN STIVELL - Eliz Iza : ROBERT TEAR & PHILIP LEDGER - The brisk young widow : LIAM O'FLYNN - The humours of Ballyloughlin : SHONA DONALDSON, HAMISH NAPIER & ANNA MASSIE - The bonny sailor boy : THE BOLINGEY TROYL BAND - Can Jack : BOB ROBERTS - Moliannwn : VOX VULGARIS - La suite meurtriere

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. In telling Thomas, Lord Fairfax about the rocks and minerals of the Island in his account written in 1653, James Chalenor refers to a mine at Bradda exploited by Captain Edward Christian. The editor of the Manx Society Vol X (1864) reprint of Chalenor's work is the Rev. J G Cumming, and his note on this important figure in Manx history takes up most of our attention this time. We start on a version in Manx of George Orwell's satire on Stalinism, Gowaltys ny Beiyn. As y kiaull ain : FLORRIE FORDE - What happened to the Manx cat's tail? : SERIOUS KITCHEN - Ormiston's : TONY TRUSCOTT - A didjan for bucca : STEVAN VINCENDEAU & THOMAS FELDER - La Ruelmain : STEVE EAVES - Ymlaen mae Canaan : CAROL WALKER - Alas! the horse is gone (Ta'n bock, aboo! ersooyl) : CHRISTY MOORE - Don't forget your shovel : EMILY SMITH & JAMIE MacCLENNAN - The salt necklace

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 obliquely are elective mutes, and their relationship with their father, ten years before he hanged himself in his barn. As nyn giaull : KATE DOWMAN - Ashlin y cheayn : SWOP - Robert : LINDA GRIFFITHS - Mae hynny'n well na dim : THE ROYAL IRISH RANGERS - The green glens of Antrim/The star of the County Down : ROGER BRYANT - Cornish lads : GRADA - A l'envers : GREG JOUGHIN - The sparrow's tale : SKILDA - Airfailarin

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 story in Manx deals with a young man's confession of what he has done when a tortured past becomes too much for him. As nyn giaull : ALAW (with Gwilym Bowen Rhys) - Lisa Lan : NEIL MULLIGAN - Barr ny Cuille : BRIAN O hEADHRA & CRUINN - Ho ro mo bhata : PHYNNODDEREE - Car ny ferrishyn/Car Juan Nan : DAOIRI FARRELL - The Connerys : BAGAD CAP CAVAL - Breton traditional melodies : BRENDA WOOTTON - De Sul Vytyn : ALAW - Nifty maggot

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, subservient to a greater artificial intelligence. As nyn giaull : THE OUTSIDE TRACK - Flash company : MERA ROYLE & DAVID KILGALLON - Deep in the earth : BRYHER'S BOYS - Little Lize : THOMAS MOISSON - Rod peurbadel : THE MOLLAG BAND - Langness : RACHEL HAIR & RON JAPPY - The black hair'd lad/The Glenburnie rant/Jamie Shearer : LINDA GRIFFITHS - Hiraeth am Feirion

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 his annual visit to his grandmother's cottage - can it really be as bad as he fears? As nyn giaull : SKEDDAN JIARG - Grande Parade in Lorient, 04/08/19 : BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL - Tunes on the Scottish lowland pipes : BERROGUETTO - Anubia : BOLINGEY TROYL BAND - We en't goin' far : THE MOLLAG BAND - Arrane ny fee : MERA ROYLE - Moon at dawn : COR MEIBION ABER - Tydi a rhoddaist : BAGAD CAP CAVAL - winning performance in Lorient, 03/08/19

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 decided not to say out loud, all the silly jokes we decided not to tell and all our forgotten nightmares were to be made flesh, what sort of creature would it be? As nyn giaull : MANNIN FOLK - Spanish ladies : ALAN STIVELL - Ys : GWERINOS - Fflat Huw Puw : NEIL MULLIGAN - Port ny h-eala air an traigh : RITA CONNOLLY - Ripples in the rockpools : LESKI - Crested hens/Ewon an mor : RACHEL WALKER & CRUINN - Fhalbh oirre ho : SWOP - Ice worms/Bosse Nordins schottis

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's Land : MERA ROYLE - Mylecharaine's March/Moirrey ny Gainle : CAARJYN COOIDJAGH - Ballakilpheric : NEIL CLARK - Morag of Dunvegan/Merrily kissed the Quaker/The hen's march : LORS LANDAT & THOMAS MOISSON - Kimiad soudard ar Republik : DAVID KILGALLON - Wandescope/Hunt the wren/Fathaby jig : RANDY WILSON - My old man : RACHEL HAIR & RON JAPPY - The road to Jurby/Sunset squatters

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 : JAMIE SMITH'S MABON - Summer's lament : SCOOT - Constantine : THE MOLLAG BAND - Graih my chree : NEIL CLARK - Leaving Glenurquhart/The white sands of Mersah Matruh : DAOIRI FARRELL - The Galway shawl : RACHEL HAIR & RON JAPPY - Mera's delight : CLASH VOOAR - Lhig y bullad : LORS LANDAT & THOMAS MOISSON - Edan dek miz/An meliner

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 spent some of his school days in Ballasalla, from where he attended Malew Church under the Rev William Gell. Our Manx story is a tale of greed overcome by hard technology. As nyn giaull : JAMIE SMITH'S MABON - Caru pum merch : GABE DANSEREAU - Kentucky fiddle tune : LORS LANDAT & THOMAS MOISSON - Deomp d'ar bal : MERA ROYLE - Graih foalsey : DAOIRI FARRELL - The hills of Granemore : RACHEL HAIR & RON JAPPY - Maybelle's compliments to her brother Cameron/Lady Baird's/Lochinver : JOWDY & CARASEK DAVEY - The bellringing : CLASH VOOAR - Magh ass y chishtey