49 minutes | Sunday, 7 January 2024
Having started with J B Keig's nicknames in Ballaugh, we've moved on to A W Moore's thoughts on nicknames throughout the Island. As we find out, that work from 1890 was the framework for what J J Kneen had to say about nicknames in his book from 1937.
In our translation of Bram Stoker's Dracula into the Manx Gaelic, Professor Van Helsing has been given short shrift by the patient, Mr Renfield, and so goes instead to talk to Mina Harker. However, we hear from her diary that she's putting on a brave face whilst strangely affected in some way.
As y kiaull ain 'sy chlaare shoh -
RUTH KEGGIN & RACHEL HAIR - Vuddee veg
ROGER BRYANT - Our own little world
NIALL & CAOMHIN VALLELY, PAUL MEEHAN & BRIAN MORRISEY - Gleann an phreacain
PLETHYN - Ffarwel i'r picws mali
OWN HAND - I loved a lass
BBC WIRELESS MILITARY BAND - Lili Burlero
THE MOLLAG BAND - Fin as Oshin
ROGER BRYANT - The gardens of life
THE OUTSIDE TRACK - The testimonial