The Prologue sets the scene for everything that follows. In eight days, a parliamentary debate became law. No one spoke for the people of the Isle of Man in that debate. What resistance was presented argued only for the price, not the right.

The island nation that Parliament purchased had been home to the Manx people for thousands of years. They spoke their own Gaelic language, governed themselves through their own parliament — much older than Westminster — and administered their own laws. The island had once been the seat of a kingdom stretching from the Hebrides to Dublin.

With the lordship came a duty: to protect and care for the people in its charge. A duty that fell victim to indifference.

This is their story. This is the story of Revestment.

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