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Interview with Mrs Catherine Watterson speaking Manx Gaelic

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Date(s): 1949

Creator(s): University of California

Scope & Content: Catherine Watterson speaking Manx, recorded by Carmody. The recording begins part way through her telling a story; how she would often walk from Lingague, where she lived, to Peel, (which she calls Balley Hinshey), going over the Round Table; she is asked if she knows about a path in Dalby and she begins a story but gets cut off mid-sentence; they talk about cooking methods, imported American meat, storing herring and other fish; man who falls asleep in the field; man from Cregneash who walked to the fishing in Ramsey; how she has not heard the phrase 'Bock Yuan Fannee', a story about a weaver, how she went to watch him; how she spends her evenings; and she talks about her family, her father and grandfather.

Language: Manx Gaelic

Extent: 20 min. 10 sec.

Item name: gramophone record

Collection: Sound Archive

Level: ITEM

ID number: SA 2019-0243/2

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Subject tags : #UOSH

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