Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Rick Holden, manager of Peel football club on the Isle of Man; player with Oldham Athletic (twice) and Manchester City. [5] Sheila Holland (1937–2000), prolific and best-selling romantic novelist, best known as Charlotte Lamb. Colin Horsley (1920–2012), New Zealand-born classical pianist but with Manx roots; Andy Kershaw, BBC Radio presenter.
The Manx (Manx language: Ny Manninee) are an ethnic group from the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea in northern Europe.They are often described as a Celtic people on the basis of their recent Goidelic Celtic language, but their ethnic origins are mixed, including Germanic (Norse and English) and Norse-Gaelic lines.
William Hoggatt (1879–1961), artist who moved to the Isle of Man in 1907 Bryan Kneale RA (born 1930, Douglas ), prize-winning sculptor, now lives in London Archibald Knox (1864–1933), a designer with an interest in Celtic art
Pages in category "People from Douglas, Isle of Man" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
According to the 2011 interim census, [4] the Isle of Man is home to 84,655 people, of whom 26,218 reside in the island's capital Douglas (Doolish).The largest proportion of the population was born on the island, but major settlement by English people (Sostnagh/ Sostynagh) and others has significantly altered the demographics.
During the first period of recorded history the island was occupied by Celtic speaking peoples and later Christianised by Irish missionaries. By the 9th century Vikings, generally from Norway, ruled the island: Old Norse speaking settlers intermarried with the Gaelic speaking native population, and Norse personal names found their way into common Manx usage.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
In the earliest Irish mythological texts, Manannán is a king of the otherworld, but the 9th-century Sanas Cormaic identifies a euhemerised Manannán as "a famous merchant who resided in, and gave name to, the Isle of Man". [32] (Though others suggest it was the Isle that lent its name to the merchant, refer exhibit in "House of Manannan", of ...