The name Flann we are quite satisfied originates in the ancient and documented history of Ireland. It is well established the Irish in the form of the Celts were a highly civilized tribe of peoples, organized by chieftains- kings, and their...

Father was a Flann, born in 1891 and on Portland. As children, on holiday visits when we stayed in his old family home-85 Easton, the character of Portland fascinated us. Apart from the joy of being free and on holiday, there...

The Isle of Portland in Dorset, England, is not strictly an island but a solid block of limestone extending into the English Channel with the Bill at its seaward extremity. It lies roughly north and south, is about 4 miles long,...

Introduction …Comben and Stone they came alone, Fancy, Flann, Flew were the next of the crew… So runs an ancient Portland rhyme about the first families who settled there. When it was rhymed we do not know but it was a...