The Mooragh estate was a rough wilderness when Ramsey Commissioners first bought it. However, plans were drawn up for it and the first stone of the North Promenade was laid - and the promenade was named - and the first sod of the Mooragh Park was cut by the Lieutenant-Governor Spencer Walpole on 11th August 1887.
We look at the opening of a translation into Manx of The Wind in the Willows, a book of which Kenneth Grahame's original English version has far more of poetry about it than prose.
As nyn giaull -
COR MERCHED EDEYRNION - Dim ond meirch y mor
BILL CORLETT & PHIL GAWNE - Y ghraih my chree 's my stoyr
BAGAD CAP CAVAL
NICOLSON INSTITUTE GAELIC CHOIR - Foghnan ny h-Alba/Puirt e beul
RICHARD TRETHEWEY - Smoking chimneys
BAGAD KEMPER
ELIANE PRONOST - An hani a garan
NA CASADAIGH & THE LENNON FAMILY - Peigin Leitir Mor
KEVRENN ALRE
