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We have two descriptions of Manx homes in the early …

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Eleanor Brennan (always known as Nelly), was born in Douglas …

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Rummaging through W Walter Gill’s ‘Manx Dialect Words & Phrases‘ …

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I found an old file I created some years ago …

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I am a true-born Manxman, an’ I like the good …

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Lovely time wandering around the fair field and as ever, …

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Profanation on the Sabbath was one of the commonest offences …

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⬥Did you avar heer the lek of yandhar? Whey, they …

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Farming has been in the blood of my ancestors for …

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When I was a little boy, we lived over by …

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Lovely visit last week to the tholtans and well.  Blue …

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Drift Nets Herring and mackerel used to be caught entirely …

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For thousands of years great shoals of herring entered the …

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Below is the final chapter from Lancashire Sketches (third edition) …

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‘Nan Wade’ was a well-known Manx wise woman whose gifts …

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It is very hard for us to imagine homes without …

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I was at a mini-workshop today at Cregneash and went …

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Bannaghtyn ec yn shass greiney souree shoh. Greetings/Blessings on this …

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We first hear of the Quakers (aka Society of Friends) …

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Most precious of all things in my childhood is the …

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Some entries from A Vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx Dialect (1924) …

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On the Isle of Man, the little red woman of …

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New website for Isle of Man Wells – another of …

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Happy Laa Luanys.   It’s that time of the year …

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Thie Ferrishyn was the name sometimes given to what was …

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Known as ‘the Hump’, this tumulus was recorded in 1930 …

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The Manx farmyard was known as ‘the Street’ and around …

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