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Announcement from Cornwall Council......

Historic Cornish language manuscripts return to Cornwall for unique exhibition

Four historic play scripts, which will give residents and visitors a glimpse into early Cornish language and medieval outdoor theatre tradition, will go on show together for the first time in Cornwall this summer.

From The Celtic Language News:

The number of young people being educated through Irish in Ulster has passed 7,000 for the first time. Comhairle na Gaelscolaíochta (CnaG) said new figures highlighted the significant growth that the Irish-medium sector was experiencing. The council said local committees and activists deserved huge praise for their commitment to ensuring Irish-medium education was available in every county in the north.

As you may be aware, social media has been awash with reports of discontent spilling over on to the streets of Scotland and Wales. 

Last week in Dublin a commemoration was held to mark the centenary of burning the Custom House, the last symbol of British civil administration in Ireland. The Irish struggle for independence from English colonial rule has been long and hard and taken  many centuries. Albeit that a section in the northeast of the island of Ireland continues to remain under colonial rule. As Seán MacBride (26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988) recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974 observed: ``The historical and contemporary existence of the Irish nation has never been in dispute.

The Gruffalo in Cornish

Agan Tavas - The Campaign for the Cornish Language, is pleased to announce the availability of of a Cornish translation of the famous childrens’ book by Julia Donaldson - The Gruffalo. 

The book was translated by the secretary of Agan Tavas - Ray Chubb. 

Ray said “Translating the book presented a bit of a challenge because the English version is in rhyme and the Cornish therefore had to be made to rhyme. I wish that books of this quality had been available when I was bringing up two boys bilingually". 

From The Celtic Language News:

On 8 April 2021, the French National Assembly has witnessed a small revolution with the adoption, against the government’s opinion, of a law aimed to protect and promote regional languages. This law was drafted and supported by Paul Molac, Member of the Parliament from the Regions and Peoples with Solidarity party from the constituency of Ploërmel, Brittany. This adoption undermines the French State’s Jacobinism.

Ballyarnet (Irish: Baile-Arnoid) is a townland just to the north of the city of Derry (Irish: Doire) in the north of Ireland. People of Derry have been remembering  a special unexpected visitor to Ballyarnet who arrived on 21st May 1932. American aviation pioneer and author Amelia Earhart made a forced landing there due to bad weather and technical problems. Amelia Earhart's arrival in Ireland made her the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Ireland is well known for its prehistoric manmade megalithic sites used as burial monuments. There is a significant variety to the 1,600 or so megaliths thought to be remaining in Ireland. These include Cairns which have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes, such as burial memorials; for ceremonial purposes, sometimes relating to astronomy; to mark trails and as an integral part of a burial mound or site. Many have been destroyed over the years, with the large stones used in their construction being later used for other purposes.