The Peel Players
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The Peel Players were an amateur theatre group from the Isle of Man in operation during the 1910s and specialising in Anglo-Manx dialect productions.
W. B. Meyrick as 'Chalse' in the 1913 production of Illiam Kodhere's Will
Sophia Morrison
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Sophia Morrison was a Manx cultural activist, folklore collector and author. Through her own work and role in encouraging and enthusing others, she is considered to be one of the key figures of the Ma
The Peel Players
…amateur theatre group from the Isle of Man in operation during the 1910s and specialising in Anglo-Manx dialect productions. Through the initiation of Sophia Morrison, the group met for the first time in July 1912 at Christian Street School, Peel. They commenced playing in 1913 with Christopher R. Shimmin as producer…
Sophia Morrison
The modern edition of Manx Fairy Tales, featuring illustrations by Archibald Knox from the 1929 second edition.
The front cover of the first edition of Mannin, May 1913
Sophia Morrison was ”averse to photographs as she had problems from childhood with her eyes giving her a form of squint"