Margaret Jennifer Kewley Draskau (died 21 October 2024) was a Manx historian, linguist, teacher, political candidate and prominent figure in Isle of Man culture.
[2] She attended The Buchan School in Castletown, and spent periods of her youth staying with Welsh speaking cousins in Wales.
[6] She also sung with Manx choir Cliogaree Twoaie, bungee jumped and was known to swim in the Irish Sea.
[3] In 2004, she spoke at the Harvard University Celtic Colloquium, delivering a talk titled “Language death and resurrection in the Isle of Man: the continuity of Manx Gaelic exemplified by the use of inflected verb tenses”.
in 2012 and said at the book launch that "whatever conclusions readers draw about his standing as a martyr, his story continues to grip generations.
"[20] A copy of the book was donated to the Tynwald Library,[21] and in 2013 Draskau fundraised for the Isle of Man Agricultural Benevolent Trust after a blizzard by delivering a lecture about her distant relative.
[3][22] Her other historical research included exploring the World War I internment camps on the Isle of Man.
[26] She put forward the idea that internee female impersonators on the island "played an important role in the social and psychological resilience of heterogeneous all-male societies within the internment camps.