Manx language and dialect archive recordings: Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 2 Track 7ii

1948

Manx language and dialect archive recordings: Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 2 Track 7ii

A Skeealyn Vannin archive track. Recording equipment was sent to the island in 1948 at the direction of Eamon de Valera, then Taoiseach, specifically to capture the last native speakers of Manx Gaelic before the generation was gone.

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