Breesha Maddrell
@breemanx.bsky.social
Musician, Manx speaker, tea drinker, walker, sea swimmer, PhD & general geek...trad & not so…Clash Vooar, Caarjyn Cooidjagh, etc. Director @ Culture Vannin
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I saw the rain dirty valley
you saw Brigadoon
I saw the croissant
you saw the whole of Sassoon
#NationalCroissantDay
you saw Brigadoon
I saw the croissant
you saw the whole of Sassoon
#NationalCroissantDay
January 30, 2026 at 10:43 AM
I saw the rain dirty valley
you saw Brigadoon
I saw the croissant
you saw the whole of Sassoon
#NationalCroissantDay
you saw Brigadoon
I saw the croissant
you saw the whole of Sassoon
#NationalCroissantDay
Reposted by Breesha Maddrell
The importance of #peatlands in #Manx culture is evident in the literature, art and music of the Island. This picture shows a couple sitting before an open 'chiollagh' or 'fireplace', where peat would have been burned for warmth and cooking 🔥
January 21, 2026 at 7:38 AM
The importance of #peatlands in #Manx culture is evident in the literature, art and music of the Island. This picture shows a couple sitting before an open 'chiollagh' or 'fireplace', where peat would have been burned for warmth and cooking 🔥
You don’t know the relief getting back into the sea after a couple of weekends off because of storms and illness
January 18, 2026 at 12:43 PM
You don’t know the relief getting back into the sea after a couple of weekends off because of storms and illness
Reposted by Breesha Maddrell
Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.
December 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.
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 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
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 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-...
Swim - cold but good
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Swim - cold but good
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
Deadline 12 noon 2 December
November 26, 2025 at 7:57 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
Deadline 12 noon 2 December
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
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
Reposted by Breesha Maddrell
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
Have been neglecting bluesky for some reason / here’s a swimtastic selection from Sunday
Costa del Purt le Moirrey
August 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Costa del Purt le Moirrey
Sneaky low tide swim after work
August 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Sneaky low tide swim after work
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/...
‘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
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/...
‘Teeval, Ben-Phrinse ny Marrey’ has become 'Teeval, Tywysoges Cefnfor,' thanks to new subtitles.
Enjoy it here:
culturevannin.im/watchlisten/...
Reposted by Breesha Maddrell
Silence on Gaza will be 'moral failure', says President Higgins in letter to other non-executive Presidents
www.rte.ie/news/2025/07...
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
Silence on Gaza will be 'moral failure', says President Higgins in letter to other non-executive Presidents
www.rte.ie/news/2025/07...
www.rte.ie/news/2025/07...
Reposted by Breesha Maddrell
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
Things are so bad, the planet is calling for Batman.
Reposted by Breesha Maddrell
It's all alright: they're not your kids... relax...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
It's all alright: they're not your kids... relax...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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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
viking.archeurope.com/runes/forsa-...
#medievalsky
July 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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
viking.archeurope.com/runes/forsa-...
#medievalsky
Singing on the beach as the sun goes down
July 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Singing on the beach as the sun goes down
Reposted by Breesha Maddrell
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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!