Society associated with the preservation, publication and promotion of the Manx language.

The surviving evidence pack is particularly strong for the Society’s work in the early twentieth century. Sophia Morrison edited William Cashen’s Manx Folk-Lore, published in Douglas by the Manx Language Society in 1912. The book preserved Cashen’s recollections of domestic life, fishing customs, folklore, songs, sayings and riddles, with substantial material in Manx.

The Society also provided a public setting in which native and fluent speakers continued to use the language. Morrison’s account of William Cashen records that he read at Manx Language Society entertainments, as well as reading lessons in Manx at Oie’l Voirrey services. He twice read the laws in Manx on Tynwald Hill.

Later language preservation work included recording the last native speakers. Stephen Miller’s introduction to W. Walter Gill’s collected folklore refers specifically to the activities of Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh in tape-recording the remaining native speakers of Manx.

The Society’s name continued to appear in later Manx-language publications and phrase books, alongside references to membership, activities and material produced under its auspices.