Name

A.W. Moore

Biography

Speaker of the House of Keys, perhaps the finest historian the Island produced. His History of the Isle of Man documented the crime with the restrained fury of someone who loves the thing that has been damaged. In 1899 he helped found Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh, the Manx Language Society, with the motto Gyn chengey, gyn cheer — without language, without country. Moore understood what Wilson had understood two centuries before: the language was not a cultural ornament. It was the medium through which the Island knew itself.

Active Period

1853–1909

Also Known As

Arthur William Moore

Place

Isle of Man

Period

Crown Administration

Modern Era

Role / Office

Speaker of the Keys

Historian

Language Revivalist

Source

A.W. Moore, A History of the Isle of Man (1900)

Book Chapter

Chapter 17

Chapter 18