A third of the population emigrated. They carried their names and their language and the memory of what had been done. The Ohio settlements preserved Manx customs in a landscape nothing like the one they had left.

A.W. Moore documented both the emigration and the language loss, founding Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh with a motto that said everything: Gyn chengey, gyn cheer. Without language, without country.

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