McCuil & Maughold: Bandit & Bishop - a talk by Dr Mike Hoy
Channel: Culture Vannin
Date: 2020-08-26

A talk about one of the most famous of all saints in the Isle of Man; Maughold.
From his days as a bandit in Ulster through to his canonisation and beyond into his legacy today, Dr Mike Hoy looks to the original sources and investigates what we can learn of this elusive character of Manx and Irish history.

The talk by Dr. Michael Hoy of Liverpool University was delivered at Maughold on 1 August 2020 as a part of the St. Maughold's Day celebrations organised by Kirk Maughold.

Michael Hoy, MBE, MA, PhD is from the Cotswolds, England, and read English at Queens’ College, Cambridge. He came to the Isle of Man in 1970 to become head of English and drama at King William’s College. In 2003 he was appointed MBE for services to Education and the Arts in the Isle of Man. He is the author of two books on the history of King William’s College and its foundation charities – A Blessing to this Island and Isaac Barrow: his Life and Legacy. In 2015 he completed a PhD research project with the University of Liverpool, which explored the development of education and literacy in the Isle of Man in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is currently undertaking further research into early modern Manx social history for the Universities of Huddersfield and Liverpool, and he is a lecturer on the University College Isle of Man’s History and Heritage degree course.

Our thanks are owed to Dr Hoy and the church for allowing us to film this talk.

This film was produced by Culture Vannin in 2020.
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