Claare Ny Gael - Manx Radio Podcast
1) Claare ny Gael 21st December 2025
A letter from 'A Parishioner of Kirk Braddan' deprecates the traditional Christmas Eve Oie'l Verree, which a poem of William Kennish describes, with Manx Christmas sayings and a Manx version of a stor...Show More
2) Claare ny Gael 14th December 2025
An interesting court case from December 1825 reveals tensions between two Douglas residents; there's more in a Manx translation from Grimms' fairy tales; and there's a variety of music to enjoy from...Show More
3) Claare ny Gael 7th December 2025
A maritime rescue, with a Royal Naval officer who served in the Island, and ended his days here. More in Manx from the world of the brothers Grimm, and music from around the Celtic world.
4) Claare ny Gael 30th November 2025
A Manx translation of Grimms' fairy tales, and some pieces from a newspaper of 1886 about the Manx language. Music to reflect that St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland.
5) Claare ny Gael 23rd November 2025
The Cushag - the Manx national flower? However, it provided a pen name for Josephine Kermode. In a Manx translation of Grimm's fairy tales, there's a goat eating lush shoots. In between there's a vari...Show More
6) Claare ny Gael 16th November 2025
There are conflicting theories about the origins of Laa'l Spitlhin Geuree on 18th November, there's a Manx translation of Grimms' fairy tales, and a miscellany of music from the Celtic nations.
7) Claare ny Gael 9th November 2025
Murder, mutilation and mayhem - the world of the Kings of Man and the Isles. But Olaf Godredson seems to have died peacefully in Peel Castle on 10th November 1187. More Grimms' fairy tales in Manx, an...Show More
8) Claare ny Gael 2nd November 2025
Music making in the Celtic countries comes in a range of genres, as you'll hear. You'll also hear one of Grimms' fairy tales in a Manx translation, and about crime and punishment in 1832.
9) Claare ny Gael 26th October 2025
There's a reminder that life in the Island could be gritty, with two men losing their lives for their crime in 1832. There's a well-known story from the Brothers Grimm, heard here in a Manx translatio...Show More
10) Claare ny Gael 19th October 2025
The history of James and Charlotte Stanley and a stone dated 1644 found at Castle Rushen rounds off William Gell's 1906 poem, Mannin Veg Veen. There's a translation into Manx of Grimm's Fairy Tales, a...Show More