Juan Noa was the pen-name of John Henry Cleator, a Manx dialect poet and playwright active from the 1920s to the 1960s in the Isle of Man.
He returned by air to the Isle of Man and was transferred on a stretcher from the aeroplane to Noble's Hospital where he died three weeks later on 2 January 1963.
'[8] The book originally featured 16 poems, but ‘Isle of Our Fathers’ was also added in reprints made after December 1942.
Cleator's poetry was frequently performed at gatherings on the Isle of Man alongside other forms of Manx entertainment.
[13] It went on to be performed around the Isle of Man and beyond, including at Ramsey,[13] Douglas, Peel,[14] Liverpool and London.
A letter to Leighton Stowell in 1960 reveals that at least two new three-act plays on Manx historical themes were finished at that time.