On the 27th of December 1974, Ned Maddrell, a Manx fisherman, passed away, and with him so did the Manx language. Maddrell was the last native Manx speaker on the Isle of Man, making the language critically endangered. Increased British tourism, immigration, and assimilation led to the slow disappearance of the island’s native language. Systematically stripping away the island's right to language, communication, and tradition. This project aims to start a discussion around this loss of rights, whether the right to language, the right to tradition, or the right to self-identity, utilising print publications as the critical media object. I will create a series of publications, each preserving a different story to help continue the lost tradition of storytelling.

The decline of the traditional storytelling in Manx severed the last ties between the locals and their vast pagan and spiritual roots. Children and adults alike could no longer understand their ancestors, with only a few famous stories being passed down through Anglicised translations. This stripped the island of its community, isolating the locals from their right to collective memories.