Claare ny Gael 8th October 2023

Published: Oct. 7, 2023, 10 p.m.

We've come to the final chapter of 'A Review of the Manks History', David Robertson's addendum to his 1794 publication in which he describes the Island as he saw it when he revisited it - having been based in Douglas as a revenue officer of the Crown - in the summer of 1791. Robertson's gives an overview and  draws some conclusions.

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As we're reading through the translation into the Manx Gaelic of Bram Stoker's Dracula, we've heard of Jonathan Harker's visits to Whitby and London to trace Count Dracula's cargo of boxes, delivered to an empty house in Carfax, next door to Dr John Seward's asylum, to where Jonathan has come to work with his wife, Mina, on tracing the strange events. 

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As nyn giaull -
\nREALTA, with MYLES McCORMACK & CATHY JORDAN - The wind that shakes the barley
\nSIAN JAMES - Merch ei mam
\nJIM MACLEOD & HIS BAND - Grand march
\nANDREA AR GOUILH - Ar bugel koar
\nMATT CREER - North northwest
\nBAGAS AN OOL - Mary Kelynack's polka
\nEMMET SPICELAND - Olaim punch
\nTHE GENTLE GOOD (GARETH BONELLO) - Pan own i ar foreddydd
\nTHE PEATBOG FAERIES - The Jesster
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