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Ireland - Charles Stewart Parnell ‘Ivy Day’ Glasnevin Cemetery Commemoration 2016

Irish nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell (June 27, 1846 – October 6, 1891) died on 6 October 1891. When his funeral took place at Glasnevin Cemetery on 11th October it was one of the largest seen in Ireland. In his memory Ivy Day (Irish: Lá an Eidhneáin) is observed on October 6 in Ireland. On the Sunday closest to that date a ceremony takes place at Parnell's graveside in Glasnevin Cemetery and an oration delivered in his honour 

Breton Magazine Highlights Issues of Bugaled Breize and Loire-Atlantique

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Breton Magazine Highlights Two Issues That The Celtic League Has Long Campaigned On

Our Breton branch colleague Joss Le Gall reports that two issues that the Celtic League has campaigned on for some time feature in the magazine ‘Bretons’

A history of the disaster that overtook the Motor Fishing Vessel Bugaled Breizh will be covered and the title: "The (french) State lies and despises us" indicates that (as we do) many still believe the full facts are being concealed

Cornwall - Mock Mayor traditional celebration in Penryn

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Mock Mayor traditional celebration in Penryn

(by Simon Reed)

Saturday October 1st, 2016 sees the return of one of Penryn’s most famous and interesting traditions, the election of the town’s Mock Mayor.

The Old Village of Lawers And The Famous 17th Century Scottish Soothsayer

Loch Tay (Scottish Gaelic, Loch Tatha) is a freshwater loch in the central highlands of Scotland. Long and narrow the Loch is about around 14.55 miles (23.42 km) long, around 1 to 1½ miles wide, and over 490 ft (150 m) deep in places. Loch Tay has a long history of human use and settlement and in the Iron Age man-made islands on the loch, known as crannogs, were made. More than 20 submerged crannogs have been found.

Orkney's Maeshowe Neolithic Cairn To Remain Open For Public Access

The Neolithic chambered cairn of Maeshowe is situated on the island of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland.  Of the many chambered cairns in Orkney, Maeshowe stands out as the most impressive. Thought to date from about 2800 BC the 5000 year old tomb forms part of the UNESCO Heart of Neolithic Orkney, which also includes Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar and Standing Stones of Stenness.  

Politicians speak out against Devonwall

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Wales - Painting Found In Swansea Museum Storeroom Is £3m Masterpiece

A painting found in a storeroom of Swansea Musuem (Welsh: Amgueddfa Abertawe) has turned out to be a 17th Century Flemish masterpiece worth about £3m. Thought to have been owned by the Museum for about 150 years it had been catalogued as the work of an unknown artist. Now it has been dated to between 1619 and 1622 and identified as the work of Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678). The painting is a preparatory oil study for Atalanta & Meleager, which now hangs in the Prado Museum in Madrid.

'Lost' Scottish Sculpture Goes On Show In Paris and Los Angeles

The once lost marble bust of Scottish Highland laird and MP Sir John Gordon is to be exhibited at the Louvre in Paris and the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Created in 1728 by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon, one of the 18th century’s most fashionable sculptors, it is now estimated to be worth about £1.4m.

Eddie Forbes Climo 1947 – 2016

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It is with great sorrow that we record that Eddie Forbes Climo passed away last Saturday. Eddie, christened Hedley after his father, was the first son of Hedley Climo of Bodmin and Isobel (Sybil) of Thurso in Scotland. Eddie taught himself Welsh while studying in Wales and later on Scottish Gaelic. Later in life he went on to teach himself Cornish. It was obvious from some of his publications that he knew something of other languages.

He had two sons, Seoras and Charlie, who for a while were raised bilingually with Gaelic.

Campaign against a Devonwall Cross Border Constituency - update and news

News From Kernow Matters To Us:

The campaign against the unlawful imposition of a cross-border Westminster parliamentary constituency on Cornwall continues.

Please may we invite you to write to your elected representatives expressing your opposition to this outrage.

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