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News from the Celtic League:

An interesting story here from the Irish Times about a link up between the prestigious US University of Notre Dame and the West of Ireland.

The University has opened a campus at Kylemore Abbey in Connemara which is situated on Kylemore Lough near on the edge of the Connemara National Park on the Letterfrack to Leenaun Road (link):

http://www.irishtimes.com/…/university-of-notre-dame-opens-…

New from the Celtic League:

Canadian broadcaster CBC has revealed that the Canadian Federal government is backing efforts to get the remains of two Indigenous people taken from a Newfoundland gravesite in 1828 that are now at a museum in Scotland.

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly has taken the unusual step of notifying the director of National Museums Scotland that Canada will make a formal demand.

News from Kernow Matters To Us:

The Bishop of Exeter, Rt Revd Robert Atwell arrived in traditional style in Penryn today, Saturday 27th August, 2016, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 1549 Cornish Holocaust.

News from Kernow Matters To Us:

‘Poldark’ in the 21st Century

How art mimics the real life of Cornwall today

by Orlando Kimber, businessman and consultant

The TV series ‘Poldark’ which returns on September 4th, tells the story of a heroic figure fighting the forces of greedy land-grabbers who care nothing for the community of country folk. This same battle is being fought today by a group of 71 town and parish councils under the banner of Cornwall for Change (C4C).

The 2016 All Ireland Music Festival, or Fleadh Cheoil na hErieann, was held this year in Ennis in County Clare. Media reports estimate the crowd at over 400,000 over the nine days of this traditional festival of the Gaelic culture and language of Ireland.

It was on this day on 23 August 1305 that Scottish national hero William Wallace was brutally killed by his English captors. William Wallace (Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas; c.1270 - died 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight, patriot and national hero. He was one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Leading the Scottish rebellion against Edward I and along with Andrew Murray inflicted a famous defeat on the English army at Stirling Bridge. 

News from the Celtic League:

As the terrible events of Srebrenica are remembered it is important to remember that in addition to the atrocity perpetrated by the Serb military the refugees in the enclave were let down by the UN Dutch peace keepers 400 of who were charged with guarding the enclave. The argument always made by the UN and Dutch s that they were overwhelmed. However a court in France three years ago did apportion blame (see link):

Around the Celtic world there are many stone monuments and carvings in rock made by people from prehistoric times. We are the direct descendants of those that constructed these monuments in the Celtic lands of north-west Europe. Ancient stones and tombs placed in a way that look to the stars and capture moments of astronomical importance. It is recognised that many stone monuments are aligned to the rising and setting of the sun and moon during the summer and winter equinoxes. Our ancestors clearly thought that the study of the stars could give them a clearer understanding of the world.

News from the Celtic League:

SUPER TRAWLER UPDATE: We’ve highlighted the activity of super trawlers mainly owned by conglomerates in the EU (Holland) and China that are busy scouring the worlds oceans and sweeping them clean of fish.

Waters to the West of Ireland and on an arc from the Faeroes to Mauritania, West Africa and the Indian Ocean are being swept clean of fish.

Fleets from China now using bases in Mauritania and Vigo (Spain) to target the Atlantic.

There activities were recently highlighted in the Irish documentary Atlantic (link):

Multiple media outlets are reporting that the Cornwall Council has welcomed a Pan Celtic Proclamation (full text below) from the Welsh National Eisteddfod which condemns London’s decision to cut funding for the Cornish language.  This is an encouraging development of Pan Celtic cooperation in support of the Celtic tongue.