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Coayl Yn Brig Lily
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The Loss of the Brig Lily
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Ayns Mee Nollick 1852 hie yn brig “Lily” er coayl er ny creggyn enmyssit “Famman Kitterland” sy Cheeyllys.
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In December 1852 the brig “Lily” was lost on the rocks called “Famman Kitterland” in the Sound.
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Hooar nuy deiney as feed baase tra vleayst y brig as cha row agh un dooinney faagit er mayrn erreish da’n pholt mooar.
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Twenty-nine men died when the brig exploded and only one man was left alive after the great explosion.
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Fakin dy vel yn colloon shoh daa-hengagh, cha jinnagh eh assee erbee dooin yn skeeayl trimshagh y aachlashtyn (’sy Vaarle yn keayrt shoh).
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Seeing that this column is bilingual, it wouldn’t do any harm for us to rehear the sad story (in English this time).
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Va’n coontey shoh heese er screeu liorym pene voish lioaranyn as y lhied ren mee lhaih ymmodee bleeantyn er dy henney.
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This account below was written by myself from booklets and such that I read many years ago.
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Myrgeddin hooar mee mooarane voish Ned Maddrell mychione y chooish ayns Gaelg as ayns Baarle nyn yees.
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I also got a lot from Ned Maddrell about the subject, both in Manx and in English.
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S’cooin lhiam dy mennick nyn garrey Ned, ny hassoo ec yn aile, goaill toshiaght er y draane shoh:—
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I often remember our friend Ned, standing at the fire, taking up this verse:—
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“Blein hoght cheead yeig, ghaa yeig as daeed,
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“The year eighteen hundred and fifty-two,
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Va’n atchim shoh nagh bione dooin lheid,
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There was this terror such as that we didn’t know,
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Nuy deiney as feed dy jeean va stroit,
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Twenty-nine men suddenly were destroyed,
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Lesh aile as poodyr, feer doaltat’.
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With fire and powder, very sudden’
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Brig Lily v’ee voish Liverpool,
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She was the brig Lily from Liverpool,
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Dy Africkey v’ee kiarit goll.
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To Africa she was intended to go.
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Agh sterrym mooar ren geiyrt ee chionn,
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But a big storm drove her fast,
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Stiagh er yn Ellan Kitterland.”
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In on The Isle of Kitterland.”
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Pic:
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Pic:
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Yn Keeylys as Ellan Kitterland raad hie yn lhong er ny creggyn.
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The Sound and the Isle of Kitterland where the ship went on the rocks.
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Erreish da’n pholt cha row veg faagit j’ee agh meeryn dy foiee ayns shoh as ayns shid.
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After the explosion there was nothing left of her but pieces of wood here and there.
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Cha bione da ny Manninee lheid y chragh roie.
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The Manx never knew such destruction.
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“Tou caghlaa Dooinney, Hiarn gys joan”
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“Thou turnest Manx O Lord to Dust”— the Rushen Funeral Dirge
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Keelys Beg
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The Little Sound (the stretch of water between Kitterland and the Mainland
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Famman Kitterland
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The Tail of Kitterland — The point of the rock on the South of Kitterland.
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“As er earishyn y vee-hushtey oc, cha ghow Jee kerraghey; agh nish t’eh cur sarey da dy chooilley ghooinney er feai-ny-cruinney arrys y ghoaill.”
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“And upon their times of ignorance, God will not visit punishment; but now he commands every man throughout the world to repent.”
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“Oie’ll Vayree”
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Christmas Eve Church Service
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“Myr banglane sauit ass yn aile”
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“Like a branch saved out of the fire”
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Breagagh
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Breagagh
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