Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio

The Mooragh estate was a rough wilderness when Ramsey Commissioners first bought it. However, plans were drawn up for it and the first stone of the North Promenade was laid - and the promenade was named - and the first sod of the Mooragh Park was cut by the Lieutenant-Governor Spencer Walpole on 11th August 1887. We look at the opening of a translation into Manx of The Wind in the Willows, a book of which Kenneth Grahame's original English version has far more of poetry about it than prose. As nyn giaull - COR MERCHED EDEYRNION - Dim ond meirch y mor BILL CORLETT & PHIL GAWNE - Y ghraih my chree 's my stoyr BAGAD CAP CAVAL NICOLSON INSTITUTE GAELIC CHOIR - Foghnan ny h-Alba/Puirt e beul RICHARD TRETHEWEY - Smoking chimneys BAGAD KEMPER ELIANE PRONOST - An hani a garan NA CASADAIGH & THE LENNON FAMILY - Peigin Leitir Mor KEVRENN ALRE