Water is silver, but wine it is gold, So give it me mellow, bright, pure and old; I mind not its clime, be it Xeres or Cape, So ’tis honest …
June 2016
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I had a very good childhood with brothers and sisters and a good mother and father. We lived in Tynwald Street in Douglas where I was born in 1925. I …
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In pre-Reformation times and for many years afterwards, the feast of the patron saint of a church or parish was observed by a religious service in the church, often an …
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An attempt has been made to encompass all aspects of life in the Island but one may be led to think that the old body of tradition is more truly …
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These two charms, the Crosh Bollan (fig. 1), and Thor’s Hammer (fig. 2), are of great antiquity, and the former is of particular interest in folk-lore, as it is not …
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This photograph is of Mrs Mary Gilrea spinning outside her sod house on the East Nappin in Jurby on the Isle of Man in 1897. In the northern parishes where …