Thelanguage of the small Island of Man confronted great challenges. The place wasdisputed by Norse that finally were repealed by the native Celts, but leftmarks in the language and culture. Soon after, its local Gaelic hybridized withthe Scottish Gaelic, when the Scots took over the island. Finally camethe English hegemony.The resultof the numerous foreign raids was that currently only 2% of the population speakthe Manx Gaelic (zero per cent asnative speaker). Two percent of a population of only 50 thousand and less thanhalf of it was born in Man. (Informationdysplayed until here comes from Maddrel, 2002).The Isle of Man lies in a geo-political vulnerable position, inbetween the British Islands and Ireland(Source: The Atlantic Celts, by Simon James)Despitethis dismal background, revival waves have happened in the island since thelate 19th Century. According to the article Speaking from the Shadows (byBreesha Maddrell, op. cit.) the first wave did not have a strong literarytradition to support it and based itself in the gathering of Manx folklore,from proverbs to music and oral narrative. In this first revival the work ofantiquarians stand out, especially womenantiquarians.Even whenthe literature spread on the second revival (between the 1930s and the 1960s,more or less) it was through English written books, just with Manx themes. Tobe fair, the books of the first revival were also written in English and thedifference between both literatures is in the tone, which is pessimistic towardsits culture future in the previous and optimistic in the latter. This datacomes from the paper Of Demolition and Reconstruction: a Comparative Reading of Manx Cultural Revivals, also by Breesha Maddrell. Onit, she compares the two periods and their most representative authors: T. E.Brown e Mona Douglas, respectively.We canconsider the present as part of a third wave of revival, noteworthy by therelevance of formal education. The article Manx Language Revitalization and Immersion Education (by Marie Clague, 2009) points out the growth of the teachingof Manx Gaelic and also of the teaching inManx Gaelic, i.e. immersion education, where the Celtic language is used as ameans of teaching instead only being taught as a subject. Considering the low number of speakers, it is a very bold measure. EXTRA MATERIAL- T. E. Brown's poems at Poem Hunter- Mona Douglas' poems at BDO site- Traditional Manx music- Manx Heritage Foundation website Cornwall isneither independent as Ireland is nor has some autonomy as Scotland, Wales andMan, which is not good news to its language. On the other hand, Cornish isprotected by the same European charteras the Scotish Gaelic; still has at least two thousand native speakers (2001census), while Man has none andis far away of the biggest English cultural center London.How Englishare the Cornish? The historian Eric Hobsbawn wrote in Nations and Nationalism since 1780 (Cambridge University Press,1980) that the Cornish are fortunate to be able to paint their regionaldiscontents in the attractive colours of Celtic tradition, which makes them somuch more viable. Not every person at Cornwall think of himself/herself asEnglish. (About that, cf. County, nation, ethnic group? The shaping of the Cornish identity, by Bernard Deacon).Four authors wanted to prove this sense of otherness to