Ellan Vannin, meaning Isle of Man in Manx, is a name taken perhaps most famously by a poem and a song (by Eliza Green) that is often considered a national anthem of the island and it's people. It gained a wider audience when the Manx born Bee Gees recorded and played the song in 1998 at Wemble Stadium London.
When the summer day is over
And it's busy cares have flown
I sit beneath the starlight
With a weary heart alone
Then rises like a vision
Sparkling bright in nature's glee
My own dear Ellan Vannin
With it's green hills by the sea
Then I hear the wavelets murmur
As they kiss the fairy shore
Then beneath the emerald waters
Sings the mermaid as of yore
And the fair Ilse shine with beauty
As in youth it dawn'd on me
My own dear Ellan Vallin
With its green hills by the sea
Then rises like a vision
Sparkling bright in nature's glee
My own dear Ellan Vannin
With it's green hills by the sea
Then memories sweet and tender
Come like music's plantive flow
Of the hearts in Ellan Vannin
That lov'd me long ago
And I give, with tears and blessings
My fondest thoughts to thee
My own dear Ellan Vallin
With its green hills by the sea
Words by Eliza Craven Green Music by J Townsend
When the summer day is over
It's busy cares have flown
I will sit beneath the starlight
With a weary heart alone
Then it rises like a vision
Sparkling bright it shines for me
My own dear Ellan Vannin
With it's green hills by the sea
Let me hear the ocean murmur
Let me watch your stormy sky
Then above the emerald waters
Sings the seagull as she flies
Then it rises like a vision
Sparkling bright it shines for me
My own dear Ellan Vannin
With it's green hills by the sea
And in all my times of sorrow
And on some lonely shore
I'll go back to Ellan Vannin
To my childhood days once more
words Eliza Craven Green - Bee Gees