Quaaltagh was actually borrowed into English in the 1800s from Manx, the Celtic-origin language spoken on the Isle of Man—a tiny island located halfway between Britain and Ireland in the Irish Sea.

Since brushing with extinction the language has had a revival with 1,800 people out of 83,314 saying they could read, speak or write Manx Gaelic in the island's 2016 census. Sheard, also known as ...

The new Manx Language Strategy 2022-2032 aims to build on a previous five-year plan to continue the revival of the island's native language. Currently about 1,800 students take Manx lessons across ...

The carved monuments, known as the Manx crosses, were revealed when a storm ... When the old church was demolished in the early 1800s, the stones were reused for the wall of St Patrick's Church ...

She sails, crewed by skilled volunteers, every November A Manx flag, signed by representatives ... of India previous slide next slide During the 1800s the town of Ramsey on the north coast of ...

Image caption, The exhibition includes a terracotta pot found on a Manx beach by Archibald Knox About 2,000 shipwrecks have been recorded in the seas around the island, with almost 1,800 of those ...