User:Manx James

Interested in all aspects of culture in the Isle of Man. Formerly editing as user:Jamesfranklingresham.

Some of the stuff I've created includes:

Hall Caine novels


 * She's All The World To Me
 * The Deemster
 * The Bondman
 * The Manxman
 * The Master of Man
 * The Woman of Knockaloe (aka 'Barbed Wire')

20th Century Manx writers


 * Robert Corteen Carswell
 * Cushag
 * Mona Douglas
 * Kathleen Faragher
 * W. Walter Gill
 * Colin Jerry
 * W. Clucas Kinley
 * J. J. Kneen
 * Paul Lebiedzinski
 * Sophia Morrison
 * Juan Noa
 * W. T. Quirk
 * Christopher R. Shimmin
 * Stephen Hughes-Games
 * Leonida Nikolai Giovannelli

Manx writers prior to the 20th Century


 * Trevor Ashe
 * Edward Faragher
 * Canon John Quine
 * Esther Nelson
 * George Quarrie
 * John Lewin
 * Thomas Christian
 * Thomas Allen
 * John Moore
 * William Kinrade

Manx theatre
 * The Charm, the 1912 play by Christopher Shimmin
 * The Peel Players, Sophia Morrison's theatre group, in existence from 1912 until 1917
 * The Michael Players
 * Tom Dodd (Manx actor)

Manx publications
 * Mannin, the Manx culture journal published 1913-1917 and edited by Sophia Morrison
 * Juan-y-Pherick’s Journey and Other Poems, the 1916 poetry collection of W. Walter Gill
 * The Story of the Isle of Man, A. W. Moore's 1901 short introductory history of the Isle of Man

Manx WWII Internment Camps
 * Hutchinson Internment Camp
 * Mooragh Internment Camp
 * Metropole Internment Camp
 * Sefton Internment Camp

Architecture of the Isle of Man
 * Old St. Runius, Marown
 * All Saints Church, Douglas
 * Onchan Village Hall
 * St Paul's, Ramsey

Other stuff
 * Hunt the Wren, the Christmas-time tradition specific to the Isle of Man
 * Sophia Goulden, the Manx mother of Emmeline Pankhurst
 * Sage Kinvig, the penultimate native speaker of Manx before the present era
 * Rinkaghyn Vannin, the book of Manx dances
 * Claare ny Gael, the weekly programme on Manx Radio presented by Bob Carswell
 * Reih Bleeaney Vanannan, the annual award presented for contributions to Manx culture
 * Aeglagh Vannin, the Manx cultural youth group set up by Mona Douglas in 1931
 * The section on Kurt Schwitters' internment on the Isle of Man
 * The category of people interned in the Isle of Man during World War II
 * Frances Bessie Burlison artist responsible for the reredos at Our Lady, Ramsey