Jack Corrin

Two conversations with Deemster Jack Corrin about his life, ranging from his childhood in the Second World War, through his professional life during some of the most important and momentous events in recent Manx political and legal history, to his retirement highly active in a wife range of Manx charities.

In the conversation with Katie Newton recorded in 2018, Deemster Corrin talks about his youth growing up in a boarding house on Demesne Road in Douglas in the thirties, of the effect of WW2 on Douglas, internment camps, Murrays Road School, summers spent working at Kerrowgarrow Farm, life as a boarder at King William's College, London Manx Society, being articled at Dickinson Cruickshank and completing five years unpaid 'apprenticeship' before he earned his first wage.
Deemster Corrin also talks about his family from Foxdale, his grandmother, Mary Cannell from Kirk Michael whose father was 'Cannell the Hatter', how his grandfather lost his arm in the mines then got the job as village postman, his aunt that taught at Ballmodha School and how most of his family and many of their neighbours emigrated after the mines closed leaving Foxdale a 'ghost town'.

In the conversation with Elizabeth Ardern-Corris recorded in 2012, Deemster Corrin speaks about his childhood and youth in Douglas during the war, with family in Foxdale and in King William's College. He speaks about his professional training as an advocate and his rise to become First Deemster and, even, interim acting Lieutenant Governor for a period. As well as discussing his involvement in the European Court of Human Rights case concerning corporal punishment and the use of the birch in the Island, Deemster Corrin speaks about various aspects of the Deemster position, from regalia and technology through to the building of the new Courthouse in Douglas.
The final portion of the interview is devoted to his retirement years, which saw many years of important and influential work for charities in the Isle of Man.

The conversation with Deemster Jack Corrin conduction by katie Newton took place on 18 January 2018. The conversation with Deemster Jack Corrin conduction by Elizabeth Ardern-Corris took place on 21 August 2012.

A separate interview with Deemster Pat Corrin and his wife, Pat Corrin, is available here.

Interviews

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