Walter Clarke / Leslie Quirke
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Date(s): 1950s
Scope & Content: Side one is Walter Clarke's reminiscences of the mid twentieth century revival. Clarke begins talking about how he learned Manx from going to visit native speakers; how his accent from the North of the island was strange to the south-siders; the differences between the north and south pronunciations of chibbyr/chibbyrt (well) kione (head) and shenn (shen); he talks about John Kneen, how he asked him about is income as an apprentice blacksmith; how he spoke to Tom John Kaighen and spoke to him about visiting his monolingual Manx speaking Grandparents while taking sheep to the mountain; how the Douglas people didn't think much of Manx; he went to the School of Scottish Studies and went about Argyle with fieldworkers; he spoke Manx and they spoke Scottish Gaelic; how there were about 300 boats going from the Isle of Man to Shetland; how they would go to Ireland for mackerel in the spring and come back to the island, change their nets then go to Shetland for herring and various other stories about his time learning and collecting Manx. Then it moves to Leslie Quirk's reminiscences of the his life and learning Manx; how he moved to Merseyside as a young child, living in Seaforth and Great Crosby; he went to King William's Collage at the age of 11, it was strict and there was no free time; there wasn't much money about then and there was much unemployment; he left school in 1920 and he went to work on Ballawattleworth farm; and they speak about Manx language and idiom.
Administration / Biographical History: Walter Clarke, Manx speaker, translator and Manx Museum technician (1928-2007). Leslie Quirk, Manx language student (1914-2004).
Language: eng
Extent: 56 min. 31 sec.
Item name: cassette tape
Collection: Sound Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: SA 2019-0066
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