Mark Hughes Braide
Epithet: Manx Gaelic speaker and official Tynwald translator (1910-1996)
Record type: Biographies
Biography: Mark Braide was one of the band of ‘Musketeers’ who had a passion for learning the Manx language from the last native speakers. Leslie Quirk remembers him as a very hard worker and extremely competent. His practical skills with typing and the tape recorders were invaluable to Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh in later years when they began to record native Manx speakers for their own archives.
Gender: Male
Date of death: 1996
Name Variant: Mark Braide
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Library:
- Fockle dy Choyrle gys Cummaltee Ellan Vannin er Cooishyn dy ard Scanch daue 'sy Traa t'ayn [A word of advice to the inhabitants of Ellan Vannin on matters of great importance to them at the present time]
- Will Wade
- Chymsagh Smeyir [Gathering Blackberries]
- Harry Kelly : loayreyder dooghyssagh jeh'n chenn ghlare [Harry Kelly : natural speaker of the old language]
Archives:
- Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 2 Track 04: Conversation: Harry Boyde and John Kneen, Ballaugh, with Mark Braide, J.W. (Bill) Radcliffe and Charles (Chalse) Craine
- Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 1 Track 06: Conversation: Annie Kneale, Ballagarrett, Bride, J.W. (Bill) Radcliffe and Mark Braide
- Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 1 Track 09: Conversation: Annie Kneale, Ballagarrett, Bride, J.W. (Bill) Radcliffe and Mark Braide, with Kevin Danaher
- Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 1 Track 07: Conversation: Annie Kneale, Ballagarrett, Bride, J.W. (Bill) Radcliffe and Mark Braide
- Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 2 Track 05: Conversation: Harry Boyde and John Kneen, Ballaugh with Mark Braide
- Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 3 Track 16: Speaker: Mark Braide
- Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 4 Track 01: Conversation: John Kneen, Ballaugh and John Tom Kaighin, Ballagarrett, Bride, with Mark Braide and Charles Craine
- Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 1 Track 16: Conversation: Harry Boyde and John Kneen, Ballaugh with Mark Braide and Charles (Chalse) Craine
- Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 4 Track 05: Conversation: John Tom Kaighin, Ballagarrett, Bride and John Kneen, Ballaugh with Mark Braide and Charles Craine
- Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 2 Track 03: Conversation: Harry Boyde and John Kneen, Ballaugh with Mark Braide
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