Roy Kennaugh 13-06-1949 to 27-12-2017 Roy Kennaugh Died Suddenly on the Evening of Wednesday 27Th December 2017
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Published by Mec Vannin, The Manx Nationalist Party Earroo / Issue 57 Jerrey Geurree / January 2018 Roy Kennaugh 13-06-1949 to 27-12-2017 Roy Kennaugh died suddenly on the evening of Wednesday 27th December 2017. Roy was Mec Vannin’s Cultural Officer and a great friend to us all. He was instrumental in the organisation of many of our events and he will be sorely missed as a friend and hard working committee member. It is impossible to write an adequate tribute to Roy in this short time - he was active on so many fronts. Roy was a teacher for most of He served on Michael his adult life and clearly Commissioners for many years, Celtic League, the Celtic enjoyed the actual teaching and was still serving up to his Congress and the Michael but, like so many of our good, death. We know he will be Heritage Trust, amongst others. experienced teachers, opted to missed there too both as an “get out” as the profession fell organiser and a man who could His death has touched many victim to managerialism and keep the “Manx element” in and the flood of tributes to him imported work practices that their affairs. on our Facebook page, did not put teaching first. His particularly from former pupils, last teaching post was at Castle Apart from Mec Vannin, he was shows the love and great Rushen High School. also an active member in the respect with which he was held. Laa Cooinaghtyn Illiam Dhone 2018 Yn Oraid Ghaelgagh Soiag ny Celtee Liorish Peddyr Mac Niallan / Peter Crellin "Rug mee ayns doilleeidyn nyn orrin briaght jin hene, çheshvean ny marrey". shennayraghyn ersooyl. "Cre'n raad ta shin goaill?" She focklyn Yann-Ber Ta ny smoo na un Kalloc'h ad shen, as eshyn ghleashtan lesh bunnys T'ad gra dy re ynsagh cur sollys da'n vioys dagh thie, ta çhellvaneyn berçhys yn dooinney doillee v'ec sleih er yn glick ain as çhellveeishyn boght. Ayns seihll dy 'leih ellan echey hene sy cho mooar lesh ny berçhagh, my ta, cre'n Vritaan. Choud's ta shin shamyryn ta shin cummal towse t'er ynsagh? Keayrt jeeaghyn mygeayrt nyn ayndoo. Ta shin gerjoil, as dy row va Mannin ny boayl ellan ain ny laaghyn t'ayn she red mie eh shen. Ny jiu, t'eh jeeaghyn dy vel yeï shen as ooilley, t'eh Gys y nah ghuillagh Yn Pabyr Seyr Issue 57 January 2018 Page 2 Oraid Ghaelgagh veih’n chied duillag ynsee. Haink sleih veih shennaghys gys nyn draa veih shoh nyn gree. She ooilley mygeayrt ynsagh y hene as ta farraghtyn red mie veagh eh shen. yannoo aynjee. She'n derrey traa chloan nyn Lhig dooin briaght nish, shelloo smoo v'ain eh gloan as y chloan ocsyn. eisht, "Cre ta ry-yannoo shen. Ta mee fakin nish dy Son shickyrys, foddym son yn raad shoh y hooyl?" vel ny Manninee cur bree fakin nyn raad ain ooilley da ynsagh reesht, as she moom. Rug mee ayns Ta mee fakin giensyn ry- red mie eh shen. Foast, çheshvean ny marrey, heet aynshoh, coorsyn as my ta, t'eh orrin briaght, Celtee er dagh jeu. Rug nhee Celtiagh jeh dagh "Cre'n raad ta shin goaill?" mee ayns çheshvean sorçh, ooilley ayns spyrryd ny Celtee, nyn sheeanyn nyn jengaghyn Ta çhiow er ny chur ayns mree er dagh çheu. Rug hene. Sleih jannoo my chree as mish fakin y mee ayns çheshvean nyn studeyrys er Gaelg jeh bree t'er ny chur da Gaelg gree, mooinjer er dagh dagh sorçh. Sleih jannoo sy laaghyn t'ayn jiu. Cha çheu. Dy jarroo, she red studeyrys er glare nee Gaelg Vannin ynrican mie eh shen, as fakin shoh Cheltiagh jeh dagh sorçh. ta mee çheet er lesh shoh. ta mee briaght, "Vel yn Trooid scoillyn as Ayns Nerin as Nalbin, raad shoh ry-hooyl?" ollooscoill as possanyn as boayl elley choud's sheshaghtyn as dellalyn Mannin, ta Gaelgeyryn "Son shickyrys t'eh!" ta as lughtyn-thie hig ny gennaghtyn seyrnys mish dy ghra. Ta shin er reddyn shoh gy kione. annym as aigney ta çheet n'ghoaill yn chied cheim Trooid bree troggalagh as voish loayrt çhengey nyn hannah. Keim er cheim trooid goaill obbyr ass laue volley. Ta joarreeyn fodmayd shooyl lesh boayl y cheilley hig nyn shelloo gennaghtyn obbeeys t'ad ta sleih geearree çheet share er-ash dooin. Ta geearree toiggal, as tra d'ynsaghey mychione mee clashtyn sleih vrieys, t'ad feddyn ee, cha nee cultoor ny Celtee: nyn "Cre ass haink dty hushtey joarreeyn ad ny s'odjey. jengaghyn, nyn giaull, nyn as dty yeeanid er lheid y She red mie eh shen, as ta aght smooinaghtyn. Lhig red Celtiagh shen?" Yn shin briaght ooilley da coraa ny Celtee freggyrt ta ry-heet, she red cooidjagh, "Cre'n raad ta cummal aynshoh. Lhig da mie ass towse vees eh shin goaill?" Mannin ve ny soiag ny shen: "Hooar mee eh ayns Celtee. Lhig da'n ghroin çheshvean ny marrey. Ta mee fakin raad, my nyn volley gaase ny Hooar mee eh ayns chaarjyn, raad haink veih stroshey as ee roie magh Mannin." P m N Yn Pabyr Seyr Issue 57 January 2018 Page 3 Illiam Dhone Commemeration 2018 English Oration Far more than a thing of ‘rags and patches’: Illiam Dhone and the Manx Nation By Dr John Callow A death is far easier to adult life. The choice of Quakers on the Isle – were order than to choreograph; place was carefully among the crowd that and the truth always has calculated: the boundaries gathered to witness his an awkward way of getting of Christian estate ran end. Their farm at Hango out The snap of musketry right up to the base of was about to be seized by that ended William Hango Hill; the gates of his the authorities and their Christian’s life – 355 years own manor house at cattle turned-out along the ago today – on this small Ronaldsway were only a beach; for they were not hill overlooking the Irish few hundred yards distant; only religious dissenters Sea, was intended as a and clearly visible to the but supporters of both the grim warning to the ‘little west was Castletown, the English Republic and of Manx nation’ (and to the centre of Manx Illiam Dhone. Similarly, we English soldiers of the government and home to do not know if Maximilian Republic who had made the House of Keys, where Bostocke – a former common cause with – at the height of his power sergeant of the garrison them), that the days of – ‘Brown Haired William’, discharged for his part in autonomy, possibility, and Illiam Dhone to Gaelic the 1659 rising – or his religious freedoms were speakers, had made laws, young ward, Jane over. collected tithes, and Hathorne, were present. administered justice. To They would certainly have Let us think for a moment the east, guarding the heard the gunshots from of that chill January anchorage, lay the coastal their homes and hearths, morning; of the prisoner fort of Derbyhaven, a and would have been in no marched under guard from potent symbol of the might doubt that the authorities Castle Rushen; of the cart of the Stanley family (in the form of the restored following behind that whom he had once served Stanleys and the Prince would – later in the day – and had, latterly, come to Bishops) also had them in be used to transport his oppose with every fibre of their sights. These figures, corpse back for burial at his being. We do not know silenced and forgotten the kirk where he had if John Lace and his young worshipped for most of his wife – two of the first Continued on next page Yn Pabyr Seyr Issue 57 January 2018 Page 4 Illiam Dhone English Comemmoration continued within the court records, went to his death most sequestration of his are central – as we shall courageously, refusing the estates was cursed, with see – to the story and to offer of a blindfold and his family falling upon bad the real achievements of addressing – directly – his times. Yet, if this is mythic Illiam Dhone’s life. own people with an afterlife of the foremost ‘excellent speech’, words national hero of Man; what If there is much that is now to inspire and hearten in were the nature of his unrecoverable, we can be the darkest of times. He achievements? What did sure that the execution made what the he do for his people? Why was staged as an Seventeenth Century do we continue to honour unambiguous piece of understood to be ‘a good him, on this day? political theatre amid the end’ – and this was widespread repression exceptionally important in When confronted with the that followed the return of an age where death was a reality, of governmental monarchy and the Lord of public act rather than a records and account the Isle in 1660-61. It private matter. books, some writers have served not only as a stark felt let down. One Manx warning to any future As a consequence, historian thought William rebellious subjects, but William Christian – man of Christian no more than ‘a also stood as ruthless wealth, taste and politics – thing of rags and patches’ testimony to Charles became Illiam Dhone, the and too much time has Stanley, 8th Earl of selfless, martyred patriot, been wasted, and ink Derby’s determination to of whom souvenirs were spilled, on the question of maintain his family’s hold sought, stories told and a his supposed ‘betrayal’ of over the politics of the Isle famous ballad written.