50 minutes | Sunday, 5 December 2021
On 6th December 1878, there was a great concourse of more than 700 people who assembled in the new premises of the Philip Christian Endowed School in Peel, funded by the Clothworkers' Guild of the City of London, of which Philip Christian had been a Warden, and had left London property in his will to the Guild's trust to use the rental to pay for education in his native Peel, where he'd been born in 1593.
Our short story in Manx was written by Japanese writer, Matsuo Basho. It's about an old woman whose ingenuity leads to the reversal of a tyrannical law which would otherwise have led to her death.
As nyn giaull -
SKEEAL - Billey
MARIE-CECILE CHARRIER & JACQUES-ANDRE PRAUVERT - Toutouig
EOGHAIN O CEANNABHAIN - The merry twists of fate
ACOUSTIQUE - Canu Myfanwy
NA GATHAN - Ga bruidhinne lan-uine
BOLINGEY TROYL BAND - Woolly monkey
ALAN BURKE - Idir Corcaigh 'gus Dughlais
NEEAR NESAN - Kilgallon's dream
TRIP - Farewell