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The House of Manannan is a museum in Peel in the Isle of Man. It is named after the "great mythological sea god" [ 1 ] Manannan and covers the island's Celtic, Viking, and Maritime history. History
Manannán appears also in Scottish and Manx legend, where he is known as Manannan beg mac y Leir ('little Manannan, son of the Sea'). The Isle of Man (Mannin) is generally thought to be named after him, though some [who?] have said he is named after the island. He is cognate with the Welsh figure Manawydan fab Llŷr.
HSC Manannan is a 96-metre (315 ft) wave-piercing high-speed catamaran car ferry built by Incat, Australia in 1998.After commercial service in Australia and New Zealand, she was chartered to the US military as Joint Venture (HSV-X1).
The superior court of the Isle of Man is the High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man, consisting of a Civil Division and an appeal division, called the Staff of Government Division. The judges of the High Court are the deemsters , appointed by the King (acting on the advice of the Secretary of State for Justice in the United Kingdom), and the ...
The Manannan Ballad or Manx Traditionary Ballad is a poem in Early Manx [1] dating from about the beginning of the 16th century. It gives an account of the history of the Isle of Man and its rulers, ranging from the Gaelic god Manannán mac Lir up to Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby. [2] The Manannan Ballad is the oldest datable work in the ...
It includes buildings and structures in the Isle of Man designated by Isle of Man's Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture (DEFA) "as having special architectural or historical interest". Over 250 buildings and structures are listed, and 275 more have been identified as having potential for listing. [ 1 ]
The legal system on the Isle of Man is Manx customary law, a form of common law.Manx law originally derived from Gaelic Brehon law and Norse Udal law. [1] Since those early beginnings, Manx law has developed under the heavy influence of English common law, and the uniqueness of the Brehon and Udal foundation is now most apparent only in property and constitutional areas of law.
The Isle of Man (Manx: Mannin, also Ellan Vannin [ˈɛlʲan ˈvanɪnʲ]) or Mann (/ m æ n / man), [11] is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland. It is one of the Celtic nations and is the homeland of the Manx people, a Celtic ethnic group.