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Conversations with David Fisher about his childhood in St. John's, and his central involvement in the revival of Manx language, music, dance and more in the 1970s and 80s.
Born in 1953 David Fisher's conversation ranges over his childhood home on Pretoria Terrace in St. John's, manx family and community life in the 1950s, the old railway line, the old St. John's School, Sunday School and its outings, Tynwald Day (and his own protest there in 1974), the archaeologist Sheila Cregeen, hop-tu-naa and other calendar customs, the beginnings of the Manx language and cultural revival, and how much the village has changed since then.
From the late 1970s David Fisher became centrally involved in the Manx cultural revival.
Interviews
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Growing up in St. John's
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The Manx cultural revival of the 1970s-2000s
