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Modern Era
Period
1974–present
The language came back. Bunscoill Ghaelgagh opened in 2001 — a Manx-medium primary school teaching children in the language that was supposed to have died. Brian Stowell and Douglas Faragher led the revival. Tynwald still meets on the hill at St John's every July. The petitions of doleance are still heard. The survival of Manx identity is the people's achievement, not the Crown's. The indifference that caused the devastation also permitted the endurance. Crown dependence is not an administrative category. It is a living condition.
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