Ellan Vannin

Author : W. T. Radcliffe
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267655830
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Ellan Vannin written by W. T. Radcliffe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ellan Vannin: Sketches of the History, the People, the Language, and Scenery of the Isle of Man The design and special feiture of these pages may be noted as a summary of the History of the Manx People from the early ages to the present. The fabulous and the doubtful are omitted. The external events are recorded only as related to the central idea of the book. The research necessary has demanded an area of wide extent and much care in statement, The valuable volumes of the Manx Society, the Histories of Governor Walpole and of Train, the useful Guides, the Manx Note Book, and other local sources - the Manx ruins included - have been laid under contribution, with a grateful acknow ledgment which the writer would now record. In addition, he may mention the Manx Dictionaries of Kelly and Cregeen, the 1we1/zorz'a/s of f/ze Deray Family by Seacombe, the writings of Patrick, the works of Bede, Dean Murray's Iris/z C/zurefi, Bishop Lightfoot's Leaders in Me 1v0rt/zern C/zure/z, Canon Wright's History of tile Early Eng/[sit C/zure/z, the Lecture on St. Patrick by Rev. W. T. Hobson, m.a., the recent pamphlet on Early Manx History by Rev. T. Talbot, the Biographies of Bishop Wilson by Stowell and Keble col lateral Histories of England, Scotland, and Ireland, such as by Dr. Smith of Cornwall, Wylie, and, for more general purposes, Green and Gibbon; other works, ecclesiastical and secular, giving incidental light on Manx topics, have been passed in review. The reference to volume and page was at one time intended, but abandoned in the interest of simplicity and economy. The writer has had in view his Manx fellow countrymen as his Chief readers, and specially the young people of the Island; at the same time he hopes that the visitor Will not find the volume too exacting, but, on the contrary, helpful in glen and upland and ancient ruin, on Snaefell with its grand panorama, or sailing round the rock-bound shores from the Calfto the Point of Ayre and their connecting lines east and west. An area of thirty miles by twelve in the midst of a vast continent might easily pass without notice, but the same area fixed in the Gulf Stream, where Ellan Vannin has its position. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.