Claare ny Gael 6th December 2020

Published: Dec. 5, 2020, 11 p.m.

We celebrate Shenn Laa'l Catreeney, St Catherine's Day by the old-style calendar, which coincides with 6th December by the modern reckoning, with a visit to the well, keeill and present church dedicated to her in Port Erin and then a fair at Bell Abbey in Colby, where there was also a well and keeill, and devotees seem to have been notoriously thirsty.

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Our story in Manx begins and ends in hospital, whilst a story develops in the interim. This is a translation of a story in English by Simon J Wood, living in Lincolnshire, but writing about London.

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As y kiaull ain y cheayrt shoh :

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GOITSE - Emerald (Isle of Gola)
\nIWAN B - Son nevez
\nEDUARDO PANIAGUA & MUSICA ANTIGUA - Monja y caballero/La venganza
\nBUNSCOILL GHAELGAGH - Snieeu, wheeyl, snieeu
\nARTHUR CORMACK - Thoir an t-soraidh seo bhuam
\nBUCCA - St Malo/Zeak waltz/Sunny Corner
\nTAMMY JONES - Atgofion melys
\nBRIAN Mac STOYLL & PRASH - Kiark Catreeney marroo
\nGOITSE - The burst togs