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MPs in the House of Commons have approved plans to bolster the official status of the Irish language in Northern Ireland (Irish: Tuaisceart Éireann). The proposed law aims to create new protections for the Irish language in the north of Ireland. The legislation will give the Irish language official status. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland. 

Former Scotland Office minister Iain Stewart has called for better support in UK government legislation for Gaelic broadcasting. He said the service in Scotland should enjoy the same public sector broadcast status as the Welsh language. At this time public broadcasting is a matter reserved to Westminster (British government). 

King Orry's Grave in Laxey, Isle of Man (Manx: Laksaa, Mannin) is approximately 6000 years old. There are two tombs on this site which at one time could have been connected.

Balladoole is clearly a remarkable historical and archaeological site. The hilltop overlooking the coast at Baie ny Carrickey southeast of Port St Mary, Isle of Man (Manx: Purt le Moirrey, Mannin) has been used for millennia as a place of ritual by peoples of many different beliefs. Excavations of the hilltop have uncovered Mesolithic remains; a Bronze Age cist; an Iron Age hill fort; a Christian keeill ( small chapel); a Christian burial ground, and a Viking Age boat burial.

London Manx Society (Manx: Yn Cheshaght Manninagh Lunnin) will be holding their Mhelliah Service at St Bride's Church in London's Fleet Street on Monday 3rd October 2022. A Mhelliah is a traditional Celtic harvest festival that remains popular on the Isle of Man, and is celebrated annually by London Manx Society. In his novel 'The Manxman', a 1894 novel by the Manx writer Hall Caine (14 May 1853 – 31 August 1931), he describes the Mhelliah festival:

There are only six Celtic languages spoken in the world today: Breton, Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Manx and Welsh. For centuries there has been a systematic campaign to destroy the native languages of the Celtic lands. The use of these languages was banned in schools and work places by brutal means in Alba (Scotland), Breizh (Brittany), Cymru (Wales), Éire (Ireland), Kernow (Cornwall) and Mannin (Isle of Man). 

Standing on its original site in the churchyard of St Adamnan's Church in the Parish of Lonan (Manx Gaelic: Skyll Lonan) on the Isle of Man (Mannin) is a very beautiful Celtic Cross. It is one of a number of Celtic Crosses in the churchyard that date back to the 5th century. One of the early Keeils (a Manx Gaelic word for a church), St Adamnan's Church is on the site of an earlier keeill dating from the 5th century. Often simply referred to as "Lonan Old Church" it was originally known in Manx as Keeill ny-Traie, or "the chapel by the shore" and is on the eastern side of the Island.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon spoke out as she launched a new paper making the case for Scottish independence. The UK is facing a “shift to the right” in politics whoever becomes the next Prime Minister, Nicola Sturgeon said, and insisted independence was now “essential”.

Speaking at her official residence, Bute House in Edinburgh, Ms Sturgeon insisted: “Offering Scotland the choice of independence, particularly in the context we are in today, is essential.”

The First Minister of Scotland has announced that Scotland will vote in an independence referendum on October 19, 2023. Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled preparations for a legal battle with Westminster (Parliament of the United Kingdom), over indyref2. A referendum bill (proposal for a new law) has now been published

News from Yn Chruinnaght Celtic Gathering:

"Come and join us for our 45th festival!

25 - 31st July 2022