Tag: Manx Language
Manx Gaelic app for Android, iphone and ipads launched
The growth in interest and support for the Manx Language has received another fantastic boost with the launch of a free app for Android phones, iPhones and iPads. The lessons for the app have been produced by Adrian Cain, the Manx Language Development Officer, for the Manx Heritage Foundation, whilst the course has been made [...]
Manx Gaelic signage for St. Ninian’s Lower School
The Manx language has seen a real growth in interest and support over the last few years and the latest addition to the increasing number of organisations keen to support Manx Gaelic is the new, state of the art, St. Ninian’s Lower School. The school is adopting a wide-range of bilingual signage, which, it is [...]
Manx Language Week 2012
This year’s Manx language week the Cooish- is the annual celebration of language and culture. It will take place from the 7th to 13th of October and is supported by the Manx Heritage Foundation and a number of local businesses providing an excellent opportunity for those involved with Manx to demonstrate the current vibrancy of [...]
Facebook now in Manx Gaelic
With a growing number of people communicating on social media sites through Manx Gaelic, the language has received a great boost with the creation of a basic Facebook template in the language. With assistance from Kevin Scannell, a computer science professor at St. Louis University in America, it is now possible to ‘like’ ‘follow’, find [...]
Manx Gaelic and Yiddish in Jerusalem
The Island and in particular the Manx Language received some good PR last week in the unlikely guise of a lecture in Yiddish in Jerusalem about the revival of Manx Gaelic. The lecture was delivered by Hanan Bordin of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and comes after Hanan’s three week stay in the Island last [...]
Manannan’s Cloak: an anthology of Manx literature selected and translated by Robert Corteen Carswell
Manannan’s Cloak brings together a range of texts in the Gaelic language of the Isle of Man from the earliest writings to the present day, along with their English translations. Written Manx arrived comparatively late, and the size of the Island’s population was not conducive to the widespread development of Manx literature. Nevertheless, the amount [...]
MANX LANGUAGE TAKES PRIDE OF PLACE IN 2010 PHONE DIRECTORY
Isle of Man News, 3 February 2010 – The Manx Heritage Foundation has praised Manx Telecom for its continued and “exemplary” support for promoting the local language with traditional words featuring prominently in the new phone book. Once again, key page headers and other references throughout the 2010 telephone directory appear in both English and [...]
Manx Telecom Staff Speak up for the Annual Cooish!
Isle of Man News, 9 November 2009 – There’ll be plenty of the local lingo in earshot next week when Manx Telecom staff once again play their part in supporting the 10th annual Manx Language Week – the Cooish. The Company’s 300 employees are being encouraged to meet and greet customers in person and over [...]
GEEARREE GYNSAGHEY GAELG? WHO IS UP FOR LEARNING SOME MANX?
(Manx Telecom’s Latest Plan to Keep Manx Language in the Spotlight) Isle News, 12 March 2009 – Rather than mulling over a sandwich, staff at Manx Telecom will shortly have something else to chew on during lunch breaks – learning Manx! In a move which further underlines the phone operator’s status as an Isle of [...]
