Edward Faragher

Edward Faragher was a Manx language poet, folklorist and cultural guardian. He is considered to be the last important native writer of Manx and perhaps the most important guardian of Manx culture during a time when it was most under threat. The folklorist, Charles Roeder, wrote that Faragher had done great services to Manx folklore, and it is due to him that at this late period an immense amount of valuable Manx legends have been preserved, for which indeed the Isle of Man must ever be under gratitude to him. Faragher is also familiarly known in Manx as Ned Beg Hom Ruy.

Faragher was born into a large family of twelve children in Cregneash, a remote fishing village at the south of the Isle of Man. At this time Manx was the only language spoken in Cregneash, and so his mother stood out as the only person who could converse with strangers due to her grasp of English. His father was one of the few people who could write in the village and so he was called upon to write letters on behalf of others in the community. It was from his father, known as Ned Hom Ruy in Manx, that Faraghers familiar Manx name derives with the Manx word for little being added, making it Ned Beg Hom Ruy .

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