“To sing a song shall please my countrymen, To unlock the treasures of the Island heart”
Fo’c’s’le Yarns by T. E. Brown
“Elsewhere we live, but home is where our love First drew us close to those who first loved us”
Manx Memories by Edward Priestland
“A tangled Paradise of flowers”
Poems by Cushag [Second edition]
“My heart is like a grave For happiness and memory”
Island Minstrelsy by Esther Nelson
“Mourning for fallen stars, the cold waves surge”
Manx Song and Maiden Song by Mona Douglas
“Some angel with the love-deep eyes”
Old John and Other Poems by T. E. Brown
“’Tis formless, viewless, voiceless, dark and vast”
The Pier and Bay of Douglas by Trevor Ashe
“The intention was to bring together some of the best specimens of native poetry”
A Book of Manx Poetry edited by William Cubbon
“Them was the times, the fine oul’ times When the Manx was goin’ a spakin'”
Manx Melodies by Cushag
“My dear loved isle, that gave my being birth, Thou art to me the sweetest spot on earth”
Mona’s Isle and Other Poems by William Kennish
“My own dear Ellan Vannin And its green hills by the sea.”
Sea Weeds and Heath Flowers by Eliza Craven Green
“O Ellan Vannin we are grieving sore, Lost Ellan Vannin, for the souls you bore”
Ellan Vannin by Cushag
“the ebb and the flow Of all men’s hearts went through and through him”
The Doctor by T. E. Brown
“He was too brave — too true, to seek revenge. He loved our people, and he gave his life”
Illiam Dhone: A Drama by W. E. Windus
“The listening silence”
The Glen by Cushag
“No – Bless ye! in the Isle of Man We don’t understand These ‘Polly Tricks,'”
Kitty of the Sherragh Vane and The Schoolmasters by T. E. Brown
“Well, man, the Melliah was took to-day…'”
The Melliah Boh! by George Quarrie
“O Love! O Death! O Hope!”
The Manx Witch and Other Poems by T. E. Brown
“I’m tellin’ ye,” she’d say, “That so you’ll know Oul’ Chrissamus is real Christmas Day.”
Granny: A Tale of Old Christmas by Cushag
“to chant our three-legg’d fame in three-legg’d rhyme.”
Mannin Veg Veen by William Gell
“Ho! ho! the Phynodderee! Swinging by himself in the Tramman Tree.”
Poems by Cushag [Third edition]
Recording and preserving the memories of one of the Isle of Man’s greatest writers.
