'Know Your Parish' talk by John Quilliam about Rushen
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Date(s): after 1967 and before 1979
Scope & Content: John Quilliam talks about the parish of Rushen in which he mentions ‘Tom the Dipper’s’ (Thomas Shimmin, the cobbler) ruined cottage and recites parts of his poetry (written in English and Manx) including ‘The cottage in the heather’; women collecting gorse sticks from the rocky hills; origins and translations (from the Manx, Old Norse and Scandinavian) of place names Port St Mary, Port Erin, etc., and other places including farms; Manx speakers in Rushen; the origins of popular surnames in the parish including Watterson, Clague, Cubbon, Shimmin, etc., and named individuals and families.
Administration / Biographical History: Part of series broadcast on Manx Radio.
Language: English
Extent: 10 min. 2 sec.
Collection: Sound Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: SA 2019-0053/5
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Subject tags : #UOSH