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Sea watch FoundationIsle of Man Ghost ToursThe Isle of Man is represented as a nation in the Commonwealth Games and the Island Games and will be hosting the IV Commonwealth Youth Games in 2011. The Island started the Island Games in 1985.Isle of Man teams and individuals participate in many sports both on and off the island. Among the many sports played on the island are cricket, football, gymnastics, hockey and rugby union.• Motorcycle racing
The main international motorcycle event associated with the island is the Isle of Man TT, which began in 1907 and takes place in late May & early June. It is now an international road racing event for motor bikes and used to be part of the World Championship. The Manx Grand Prix is a motorcycle event for amateurs and private entrants that uses the same 37.73 mile Snaefell mountain course in late August and early September.• Cammag
One sport that originated on the Isle of Man is cammag. This is similar to the Scottish game of shinty, and Irish hurling. It used to be the most widespread sport on the Isle of Man, but it ceased to be played after the introduction of football, until very recently when it has been somewhat revived. It involves a stick (cammag) and a ball (crick) with anything between four and hundreds of players. Sometimes whole towns and villages took part, or even played each other. The cammag can be any stick with a bent end, and the crick can be made from cork or wood. Old accounts tell us that it was occasionally covered in a rag to make it less painful to hit. Cammag season started on Hunt the Wren Day (26 December) and was only played by men (of all ages) during the winter. Realistically, it ceased to be played around 1900. However, in modern times, an annual match of cammag is played in St. John's (Balley Keill Eoin). As there are no rules to cammag, a trip to the local inn is advised to ease any feelings of cowardice beforehand!• There is also a great skate and surfing community on the island.
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EVENTS CALENDER ;• The Bee Gees were born on the island. Their parents ran the Post Office in Union Mills. Maurice Gibb returned for a spell during the 1970s. Robin Gibb is in the process of returning to the Island with his family (November 2006)• T.E. Brown Manx poet, scholar and theologian• Robert Henry Cain (2 January 1909 - 2 May 1974) was an oil company executive who was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. He was the father of Frances Catherine Cain (Francie Clarkson), wife of Jeremy Clarkson
• Jeremy Clarkson has a home at Langness, near Castletown.
• Florrie Forde (1876 – 1940), known as the queen of the music hall sing along chorus, performed at the Derby Castle ballroom stage from 1900 to 1937 (excluding the war years) and had a bungalow at Niarbyl Bay on the west coast of the island where she spent her Sundays relaxing.
• Neil Hodgson, the 2003 World Superbike champion.
• Justin Jackson is a professional footballer who played for numerous English league and non-league clubs including Bolton Wanderers, Halifax Town, Rushden and Diamonds, Doncaster Rovers and Morecambe.• BBC Radio presenter Andy Kershaw lives in Peel.
• Charlotte Lamb, a prolific and bestselling romantic novelist (1937 – 2000), best-known for writing over 150 Mills & Boon novels, lived on the Island from 1977 until her death in October 2000.• Alex Lloyd (racing driver), winner of the McLaren Autosport Young Driver of the Year Award, is from the island.
• George MacDonald Fraser, the journalist, author, and screenwriter; the title of his 2002 memoir Light's on at Signpost is a reference to the Isle of Man TT race.• Nigel Mansell, the British racing driver, lived on the Isle of Man together with his family, including his sons Leo and Greg, both racing drivers themselves, and was a Special Constable throughout his Formula One career. After retirement, he later moved to Jersey and then to the USA.
• John Rhys-Davies is a Welsh actor and has lived on the island for a number of years. He is best known for his acting roles in Indiana Jones as Sallah, in Sliders as Professor Arturo and in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy as Gimli.
• Ronnie Ronalde, music hall performer famous for his singing, whistling, yodelling and imitations of bird song lived for a number of years on the Island with most of his immediate family.
• Mollie Sugden, an actress known mostly for her role as Mrs. Slocombe on the British comedy Are You Being Served?
• Rick Wakeman lived on the island for a number of years.
• Alan Warner, a multi-millionaire and prolific writer, novelist, lyricist and screenwriter born December 8, 1960, in Bolton, Lancashire. He moved to the Isle of Man from the UK in 1989. He lives a reclusive and modest lifestyle at a lighthouse in the north of the island.
• David M. Wilson, former director of The British Museum currently lives in the Isle of Man.
• Sir Norman Wisdom, comedian and actor, is a long-term resident.
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Music:
Prominent musicians of the Manx musical revival include
• Emma Christian (Ta'n Dooid Çheet - Beneath the Twilight), whose music includes the harp and tin whistle, and harpist and producer
• Charles Guard (Avenging and Bright), an administrator at the Manx Heritage Foundation, MacTullagh Vannin (MacTullagh Vannin) and the duo Kiaull Manninagh (Kiaull Manninagh).
• Modern bands and performers include:
Movies:
• 2006
Deaths of Ian,
Freefonix,
Miss Potter,
Mutant Chronicles,
Sparkle,
The Walker,
Who Gets the Dog,• 2005
Big Nothing,
Fade to Black,
Finley the Fire Engine,
Keeping Mum,
Lassie,
Marian, Again,
Mistress of Spices,
Sacred Thread,
Severance,
Stormbreaker,• 2004
Boy Eats Girl,
Chromophobia,
Colour Me Kubrick,
Libertine,
On A Clear Day,
Revolver,
The Dark,
The Quest 3,
The Rotters' Club,
Tom Brown's Schooldays,• 2003
Churchill - The Hollywood Years,
Five Children and It,
Island at War,
Piccadilly Jim,
Tamworth Two,
The Quest 2,
Things to do Before You're 30,
Trauma,
Trial and Retribution VII,
White on White,• 2002
AKA,
Blackball,
Lethal Dose (LD50),
Serious and Organised,
Sons and Lovers,
Suzie Gold,
The Boys from County Clare,
The Heart of Me,
The Hound of the Baskervilles,
Unconditional Love,• 2001
Before You Go,
Gypsy Woman,
I Capture the Castle,
Impact,
The Gathering,
The Many Lives of Albert Walker,• 2000
Dark Realm,
Gabriel and Me,
Me Without You,
The Lawless Heart,
The Martins,• 1999
Best,
Cinderella,
Paranoid,
Relative Values,
Secret Society,
Thomas and the Magic Railroad,• 1998
Alice Through the Looking Glass,
Dreaming of Joseph Lees,
Everybody Loves Sunshine,
Shergar,• 1997
All the Little Animals,
Appetite,
Breeders,
Darkness Falls,
Love and Rage,
Owd Bob,
Space Island One,
The Tichborne Claimant,
Tom's Midnight Garden,
Treasure Island,
Waking Ned,
Woundings,• 1996
Stiff Upper Lips,
The Harpist,• 1995
The Brylcreem Boys• 1994
Cremaster 4• 1988
Come Home Charlie and Face Them• 1984
Anna of the Five Towns• 1982
Experience Preferred• 1978
Mysteries• 1971
Danger Point• 1946
I See a Dark Stranger• 1935
No Limit• 1929
The Manxman (1929)• 1916
The Manxman (1916)
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