Manx newspaper and printing establishment founded in Douglas in 1833.

The Manx Society’s nineteenth-century bibliography records that the first number of Mona’s Herald appeared on 3 August 1833. It was printed by William Walls of New Bond Street and Robert Fargher of Atholl Street and published from the Herald Office and General Printing Establishment in New Bond Street Lane.

The Herald Office quickly became an important Manx printing house as well as the home of the newspaper. Sir William Hillary’s writings on harbour improvement and the preservation of life from shipwreck were among the works printed there. The third edition of his proposal for a great central harbour for the Irish Sea was printed by Walls and Fargher at the Mona’s Herald Office in 1836.

Robert Fargher later printed Hillary’s 1842 letter on the preservation of life from shipwreck and the proceedings of a public meeting at Douglas Court House concerning a proposed harbour of refuge using floating breakwaters.

The press also produced ecclesiastical and legal material. In 1843 it printed Bishop Thomas Vowler Short’s charge to the Convocation held at Bishopscourt.

Mona’s Herald also published folklore. William Cashen’s “Superstitions of the Manx Fishermen” appeared in the newspaper on 25 December 1895, followed by “Customs of the Manx Fishermen” on 1 January 1896.