Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio

After the mheillea at Corna Chesgia there is dancing, but the fiddler gets drunk, so the party fall to singing instead. William Kennish provides some lyrics for love songs, one sung by Ewan Looney to William's sister, Kitty, and another reaper serenades Etty of Renwee so touchingly that he gets an encore. Our story in Manx is all about a young girl who, knowing her grandmother is a witch, asks for a love potion to attract the boy she fancies. Her grandmother may be more of a psychologist than a pharmacist. As nyn giaull : BERT JANSCH - Blackwaterside ; NOLWENN LEROY - Tri martolod ; RTE ORCHESTRA - Mise Eire ; MEINIR GWILYM - Gormod ; COISIR GHAIDLIG AN t-STRATH - An gille guanach ; SERIOUS KITCHEN - Ormiston's ; RUTH KEGGIN - Little red bird in the pines ; FOUR LANES MALE VOICE CHOIR - The white rose ; KEVRENN ALRE - Brest medley

William Kennish's poem, 'Mona's Isle', is autobiographical. As he tells us of the harvest customs and celebrations, it includes a family celebration as his parents arrange a marriage portion for Kitty or Kate Kennish who is to marry that year's champion reaper. Maughold parish records show that Catherine Kennish married Ewan Looney in November 1809. Our story in Manx is of a surprise success for a would-be gardener who has, not green fingers, but a black thumb. As nyn giaull: AD VIELLE QUE POURRA - Ar vestrez kollet : TOP FLOOR TAIVERS - Captain Ward : CAROL WALKER - Ta'n bock, aboo! ersooyl : KATIE KIRK & RICK WILLIAMS - Morwenstow : ANNE BRIGGS - Summer's in : MERA ROYLE - Moon at dawn : SIBEAL - Mise Eire : THE QUARTET - Home : KIZZY CRAWFORD - Caer o feddyliau

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. William Kennish has seen a change in his native Maughold on his return after 20 years in the Royal Navy. However, he looks back to his early days, playing truant in his favourite haunts, with a surprising history of his schoolmistress. Our story in Manx is also a reminiscence, as a young widow looks back, but learns to look forward with renewed spirit. As nyn giaull : LINDA GRIFFITHS - Storm nos : CHARLES CAIN & CHARLES GUARD - Hi, Kelly! : FORZH PENAOS - Casse-croute Syldave : MacGREGOR BRECHIN O hEADHRA - Mo chaileag bhon eilean : MAGENE - Le rot de la me : NA FILI - Paddy Hughes'/Garrett Barry's/Morrison's : OLL AN GWELLA - Men of Cornwall : MATT CREER - Patient steps : BLOWZABELLA - Eglantine/Man in the brown hat/Schottische Fran Havero/The minah bird

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. The Buggane of Gob na Scute is silenced! But William Kennish's reminiscences of his early days at the Corrany are marred by his realisation that, on his return in the 1840s after a 20 year absence, things aren't the same. We have a story about Cottage Cheese by American writer Ray Malus, who uses it to explore a father-son relationship. And our music for the old-style Oie Voaldyn, May Eve, and Laa Boaldyn, May Day: FLORS ENVERSA - Calenda Maia : CAARJYN COOIDJAGH - Irree ny greiney : JEM HAMMOND/DAFYDD IWAN & EDWARD - Cadi ha : MADDY PRIOR & FRIENDS - Padstow May song : JANIG JUTEAU - A l'arrivee de joli mois de mai : ANNIE KISSACK - Tappagyn jiargey / PHYNNODDEREE - Ben-rein y Voaldyn/Moghrey Laa Boaldyn : ANNE & FRANCIE BROLLY - The Magherafelt May fair : HELSTON HAL-AN-TOW PARTY (2019) - Hal-an-tow (paart) / THE OYSTERBAND - Hal-an-tow

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. William Kennish's honest, bold mountaineer - full of brown ale from Ramsey Fair - is en route to tackle once and for all the Buggane of Gob na Scute on Barrule. We have another short story set in America - but no embarrassing attempt at the accent! This is called 'Ny reaghyssyn resoonagh' [Logistics], mychione ben-chloieder ayns filmyn as chellveeish as yn eie eck dy hayrn geill jee hene. As y kiaull ain : LINDA GRIFFITHS - Llygad Ebrill : PADDY TUNNY - The old petticoat : MIKE JAMES & YVES LEBLANC - Suite d'avant-quatre : THE TYDE - April morn : OLL AN GWELLA - The Cadgwith anthem : AULD REEKIE CEILIDH BAND - The dashing white sergeant : GLASGOW ORPHEUS CHOIR - All in the April evening : PETER TOSH - Maga dog : BARRULE - Gyn ennym/My henn ayr/Jem as Nancy/Car y phoosee

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. William Kennish remembers the pleasures of the Sabbath day of rest, before telling us about rather more superstitious matters about the buggane of Gob ny Scute on (North) Barrule. Somehow, another of the stories that we were looking at for quite some time in Claare ny Gael managed to escape, so we finally hear a tale of a strange message from a galactic foundation to an unfortunate man in New York. As nyn giaull : THE CHANGING ROOM - Dus tre : ANAM - Ce treo anois? : KEVRENN ALRE - Gavotte Pourlet : CLARE KILGALLON & ANNIE KISSACK - Lhondoo : LLEISIAU'R FROGWY - Yn asyn a fu farw : FLOOK - The Sligo reel/The American polka : FINLAY MacNEILL - An smeorach as t-earrach : NAGAT al SAGHIRA - Ana ba'ashaq al bahar : ANAO ATAO - Dr Syntax's Head

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. We hear more about William Kennish's early life as he tells it in verse : some of the jobs he had, and how he enjoyed the Sabbath day of rest. We return to The 900 Club for a story that somehow got missed, though this is a fictionalised account of a genuine event, when writer Stuart Lake talked to Wyatt Earp, and his subsequent book gave rise to the legend of the lawman which is so well-known today - though rather at odds with the truth. As nyn giaull : SKEEAL ELLEY - Oie as laa : BRYHER'S BOYS - Camborne Hill : FRIBO - Seljefloyel : GEORGIA RUTH & ALAW - Y g'lomen : TWISTED ANGELS - Ellan Vannin : STOCKTON'S WING - Slipslide : ROBERT TEAR with PHILIP LEDGER - The sally gardens : ANNE MARTIN with INGRID HENDERSON, MARY SMITH & WILLIAM MacDONALD - Ho ro gun togainn : CERI RHYS MATTHEWS & JONATHAN SHORLAND - Aderyn du a'i blufyn sidan/Hela'r geinach/Bwmba

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. After hearing the autobiographical Preface to William Kennish's 1844 poetry collection, 'Mona's Isle, and Other Poems', we find that his poetry is autobiographical, too, as we start Canto I of the title poem. And we come to the final instalment of 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn', as the other animals eavesdrop on the party in the farmhouse where Napoleon and the pigs play host to Mr. Pilkington and other neighbouring farmers. As y kiaull ain : ARTHUR CORMACK - Solus m'Aighe : GWENNAN GIBBARD - Y deryn du : KING CHIAULLEE - Allen Barbara : TOMAS O CANAINN - Amen, a Iosa : DALLA - Ann Tremellan/Farewell, ye maidens all : PEDDYR CUBBERLEY & ARABELLA AYEN - Surranse er Calvary : ALLAH'S KANAN - Gouelit, ma daoulagad : THE HOUSE BAND - Pharaoh : DE DANANN - Hey, Jude.

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. We look at the autobiographical information supplied by William Kennish in the Preface to his 1844 collection, 'Mona's Isle, and Other Poems' and start to hear the autobiographical nature of his poetry as well. In 'Gowaltys ny Beiyn', the pigs, by now wearing human clothes and carrying whips, have invited neighbouring farmers to visit. The other animals peek in at their party that evening. As nyn giaull : SONERIEN DU - Chenchomp tu : JOAN BAEZ - Barbara Allen : JOHN TOSE - Meillionen o Feirionydd : GOITSE - Ur chnoc Chein Mhic Cainte : DANDO SHAFT - Coming home to me : VICTOR MILITARY BAND - The butterfly : AALIN CLAGUE & PETE WOODHEAD - Vuc ghoo : THE ROWAN TREE & THE AGGIE BOYS CHOIR - One and all : DEAF SHEPHERD - Finbarr

Bob Carswell delivers a weekly programme of great Manx Gaelic broadcasting and entertainment. At this time of year in the nineteenth century, the Manx fishing fleet made ready and sailed en masse to the three-month Kinsale mackerel fishery (returning in June). We hear about it in rhyme from Ambrose Maddrell, who first went as a 12 year old cook on a nickey. We also hear John Quilliam reciting Ambrose Maddrell's poem about his time on the Port le Moirrey schooners. Over the years on Gowaltys ny Beiyn the pigs are growing fatter and the dogs are well-fed, but the others are hungry, cold and hard-worked. They're still proud to be members of Gowaltys ny Beiyn - but then they receive a dreadful shock. As nyn giaull : JOAN BAEZ - Henry Martin : BUCCA - Re a lever : THE SOUNDALIVE CONSORT - Fast stantipes : CALAN - Synnwyr Solomon : GREG JOUGHIN - The sparrow's song : NATIONAL FOLK ORCHESTRA Stiurit ec Arnold Foster - The dressed ship : LORS LANDAT & THOMAS MOISSON - Kimiad soudard ar republik : MAIRE NI BHREAT

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