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Breesha Maddrell
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Musician, Manx speaker, tea drinker, walker, sea swimmer, PhD & general geek...trad & not so…Clash Vooar, Caarjyn Cooidjagh, etc. Director @ Culture Vannin
New film about a great Manx tradition... The Kissing Bush!

The Christmas decoration of Manx homes before Christmas trees and mistletoe, the Kissing Bush is a great way to get into the Christmas spirit!

More information on our new 'Kissing Bush' resource page: culturevannin.im/the-kissing-...
The Kissing Bush
culturevannin.im
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Swim - cold but good
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We are looking for nominations for the Isle of Man’s highest cultural honour - forms and info here: culturevannin.im/grantsandawa...

Deadline 12 noon 2 December
November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
We’re proud to have launched Blein ny Gaelgey Year of the Manx language! Check out yearofmanx.im and get involved - gow ayrn! #yearofmanx #gaelg
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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October 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Have been neglecting bluesky for some reason / here’s a swimtastic selection from Sunday
October 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Costa del Purt le Moirrey
August 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Sneaky low tide swim after work
August 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Our Culture Vannin short film about Teeval, Princess of the Ocean has been invited to be shown at the Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru in Wrexham!
‘Teeval, Ben-Phrinse ny Marrey’ has become 'Teeval, Tywysoges Cefnfor,' thanks to new subtitles.

Enjoy it here:
culturevannin.im/watchlisten/...
August 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Swim
August 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Swimtastic
July 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Silence on Gaza will be 'moral failure', says President Higgins in letter to other non-executive Presidents

www.rte.ie/news/2025/07...
Silence on Gaza will be 'moral failure', says President
President Michael D Higgins has urged his European counterparts to call for action on Gaza and said "failure to take an initiative will be rightly construed as a moral failure".
www.rte.ie
July 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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One of my favourite @humanists.uk members of the past – #KarlPopper, born #OnThisDay 1902.
July 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Things are so bad, the planet is calling for Batman.
July 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM
July 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Treasures of legal history and an example of the earliest written law in Scandinavia for a medieval Monday – The rune inscriptions on the Forsa Rune Ring
viking.archeurope.com/runes/forsa-...
#medievalsky
July 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Singing on the beach as the sun goes down
July 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Coming this fall: Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats!

This volume collects a wide array of Ursula's work related to cats: poems, drawings, ballooncats, cat tai chi, cat correspondence, chapbooks, and more.

The Book of Cats arrives October 7th from Library of America.
July 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Volume 4 of A New History of the Isle of Man launched at the Manx Museum last night - so much to write about, it is published in two parts!
July 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Lovely swim!
July 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Treisht26 £500 creative projects for #yearofmanx
Creative project grants aim to 'widen audience' for Manx language
Culture Vannin calls for projects for its Treisht scheme, which aims to spark creativity in Manx.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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June 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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