Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio

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