Mennick dy liooar ayns Claare ny Gael ta shin er ngoaill tastey jeh'n anchaslys eddyr yn 'eaillere myr ta goll er ymmydey 'sy lhing shoh as yn chenn 'eaillere myr v'ee derrey haink slattys dy chaghlaa yn chied laa jeh'n vlein as dy ghoaill un laa jeig magh ass y vee shoh, Mean Fouyir, myr shen y laa lurg 2ah Mean Fouyir 1752, she'n 14oo v'ayn.

Often enough in Claare ny Gael we've noted the difference between the calendar as it's used in the present day and the old calendar as it was until legislation came along to change the first day of the year and to take eleven days out of this month, September, so the day after 2nd September 1752, it was 14th.

Ny yei shen as ooilley, va laghyn feailley cochianglt rish nooghyn as shenn chliaghtaghyn elley foast goll er cummal rere y chenn 'eaillere.  Yn laa ta jeeaghyn rere yn 'eaillere noa-emshiragh dy ve ny 5oo Mean Fouyir, veagh y laa shen er ve ny 24oo Luanistyn, mannagh row yn un laa jeig er ve scryssit magh.  As myr shen, fodmayd feaillaghey Shenn Laal Pharlane, ta'n ennym Gaelgagh er yn Noo Bartholomew ass y Vible.

For all that, the feast days connected with saints and other old customs were still being kept according to the old calendar.  The day that appears according to the modern-day calendar to be 5th September, that day would have been 24th August, if the eleven days had not been expunged from it.  And so, we can celebrate the Old-Style Feast Day of Parlane, the Gaelic name for the Biblical St Bartholomew.

As ta shin feddyn magh mychione yn ayr as y lught-thie jeh dooinney va ruggit ny s'anmey er y vee shoh, James Kewley Ward, agh yn oyr ta shin jeeaghyn ersyn nish, va clagh undinagh jeh'n Lioarlagh Ward ayns Purt ny hInshey soit liorish Thomas Kneen, Cleragh ny Rollyn, 5oo Mean Fouyir  1906.

And we find out about the father and family of a man who was born later this month, James Kewley Ward, but our reason for looking at him now, the foundation stone of the Ward Library in Peel was laid by Thomas Kneen, the Clerk of the Rolls, on 5th September 1906.

As nyn giaull - and our music -

Gow yn bayr glass - CAARJYN COOIDJAGH

Three reels - CHRIS STOUT

Marie-Jeanne-Gabrielle - LOUIS CAPART

Ewon an Mor - ROS KELTEK

Y Deryn Pur - PLETHYN

The Duke of York's Troope - SHARON SHANNON

The Pond and the Stream - SANDY DENNY

Caprice, from Consort Music (Geoffrey Bush) - ENGLISH NORTHERN PHILHARMONIA

The Chanter's Tune - THE MOLLAG BAND

Ta shin scarrey yn traa ain eddyr Doolish as Rhumsaa 'syn earroo shoh jeh Claare ny Gael.  Reeshtagh ayns Doolish ta shin jeeaghyn er yn aght va seyrraadyn noa femoil dy lhiasaghey cooishyn y valley, as va delleyderyn ayns Rhumsaa geearree lhiasaghey ny cooishyn jeh'n valley ocsyn neesht.

We divide our time between Douglas and Ramsey in this edition of Claare ny Gael.  Once again in Douglas we're looking at the way that new facilities were necessary to develop the town's affairs, and businessmen in Ramsey wished to develop the affairs of their own town as well.

Bentyn da Doolish, ta shin jeeaghyn er calloo va troggit dy choadey y purt.  Va'n calloo shen troggit magh veih fo Kione Ghoolish.  Neayr's 1797, va ynnyd gunn ayns shen dy choadey beeal y phurt, as va daa ghunn mooar ayn rish ymmodee bleeantyn.  Hug yn ynnyd gunn yn ennym echey da'n challoo noa - Calloo yn Ynnyd Gunn.  Va'n calloo shen foshlit dy oikoil 29oo Luanistyn 1879.

In respect of Douglas, we're looking at the pier that was built to protect the harbour.  That pier was built out from beneath Douglas Head.  Since 1797, there was a battery - a gun emplacement - there to protect the mouth of the port, and there were two artillery pieces there for many years.  The gun emblacement gave its name to the new pier - The Battery Pier.  That pier was officially opened 29th August 1879.

Ayns Rhumsaa va ny delleyderyn gaccan nagh row shirveish mie dy liooar jeant er-nyn-son ec Colught Paggad Bree Ellan Vannin, as myr shen hug ad er bun colught dy chionnaghey baatey dy cochiangley Rhumsaa rish Leyrphoyll.  Lesh yn £16,000 va chaglit oc, ren ad cur oardyr stiagh rish John Laird ayns Birkenhead dy hroggal baatey enmyssit 'Manx Fairy'.  Raink y 'Ferish' Rhumsaa y chied cheayrt 31ed Luanistyn 1853.

In Ramsey the businessmen were complaining that there wasn't a good enough service laid on for them by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, and so they founded a company to buy a vessel to link Ramsey with Liverpool.  With the £16,000 that was raised by them, they put in an order with John Laird of Birkenhead to build a boat called 'Manx Fairy' - y 'Ferish', as she was known in Manx.  The 'Manx Fairy' arrived in Ramsey for the first time on 31st August 1853.

As nyn giaull - and our music -

Ramsey Town - MUSICALE

Siol Ghoraidh - RUN RIG

Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn - CATRIN FINCH

L'Aspect - INT

Tolla Rooz - DALLA

Mise 'gus Maire - DEIRBHLE NI BHROLCHAIN

Ellan Vannin - THE REGAL SINGERS / MUSICALE

Bourrees Three & Four - BLOWZABELLA