Manx Ballads and Music by A. W. Moore - 1st edition front cover
2013
The front cover of the first edition of A. W. Moore's 'Manx Ballads and Music', 1896. Moore collected the island's song tradition at the point when the Manx language that carried it was in steep decline, from around 16,200 speakers in 1874 to 4,419 by 1901.
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