Seat of the Murray family, Dukes of Atholl. The Atholls inherited the lordship of Mann through the female Stanley line in 1736. Scottish grandees with political connections reaching into the heart of the Hanoverian establishment.
Settlement in Virginia associated with Colonel William Christian, descendant of the same family as Illiam Dhone. The Fincastle Resolutions of 1775 — drafted by Manx-descended Virginians — preceded the Declaration of Independence. The constitutional instinct the Christians carried from the Isle of Man expressed itself in American revolutionary politics.
Manx emigrants settled in Ohio in the 1820s-1840s, driven by the economic collapse that followed the Revestment. John Sayle wrote home from Ohio in Manx Gaelic. The language lived longer in Ohio than it did on the Island — one of the book's most powerful single sentences.
Village at the southern tip of the Island. Ned Maddrell, the last native speaker of Manx Gaelic, lived and died here in 1974. Now a living heritage village maintained by Manx National Heritage.
The Isle of Man's nearest large neighbour. Irish trade was central to the running trade, and Irish revenue concerns drove much of the pressure for Revestment.
Fellow Crown dependency in the Channel Islands. Referenced in comparative context — also used as a smuggling entrepot, but treated differently from Mann.