The Gill brothers & their collecting of folk songs from the Isle of Man (1894-98) - Stephen Miller from j j miller books Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 37 min 63 sec
✓ Published: 15-Jun-2019

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A talk about one of the most important episodes in the history of Manx music, and why we need to rethink everything we've been told of it over the past 100 years.nnThe Gill brothers - W.H. Gill (1839–1923) and Deemster J.F. Gill (1842–99) - have remained marginalised and neglected figures in the collecting of Manx folk song, overshadowed by A.W. Moore, whose own 'Manx Ballads and Music' appeared in 1896, and by Dr John Clague, whose collection was published in large part in the 'Journal of t