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A lovely photograph of Piran carved from Cornish granite and now at home in the Valley of the Saints, Brittany.

There, Piran, weighing 6 tons, stands with an Irish granite millstone and a Breton granite base marking the close relationship between the three Celtic Nations where it is the 100th such statue.

The sculptors were David Paton and Stéphane Rouget, two sculptors based in Cornwall,
 

The Milwaukee Irish Fest is North America’s largest celebration of Irish music and culture. The four-day festival showcases more than 100 entertainment acts on 16-stages at Henry W. Maier Festival Park on Milwaukee’s lakefront. The annual festival occurs every third weekend in August. The 2018 festival takes place August 16 to 19.

‘The great man’ (aka Chief Minister Howard Quayle MHK) is out and about in the media beavering away in line with his mantra that Tynwald have not all buggered of on holiday it’s business as usual. Strangely although one or two Minister are about there’s no sign of Cannan and Thomas they are in a bunker somewhere no doubt reprising Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film ‘Downfall’

Despite the best efforts of a few shortsighted politicians and others to strangle development of Cornwall's living indigeneous language, ITV news reports on the latest developments featuring Gwenno, Matthi and Radyo an Gernewegva and Rob and his Cornish speaking family.

The current exhibition at the Hodgson Loom Gallery, situated within the Laxey Woollen Mill, features some unusual work this summer entitled The Eyes of the House, by former local artist David Swinton.

He has exhibited at the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, the Laing and the Royal Watercolour Society as well as a number of solo presentations in both the UK and the Isle of Man.

There is hardly a surfeit of telecom operators to share the business on the Isle of Man just two so you would think they would rub along.

However now SURE are accusing Manx Telecom of deceiving their customers - strong stuff. To me it sounds like a dispute between the Chamber of Commerce and the Employers Federation over who gets more time engaging with COMIN Ministers.

In any case I would have thought that SURE like MT are out to make a buck that's the nature of private enterprise so why wax all altruistic it has to be a sales ploy.

My comments - somewhat tongue in cheek - about the great student funding furore has spawned a sub debate of its own. We should invest in young graduates to work here say some others say quite accurately that many will not come back to work here. After all a good degree and even better academic follow up qualifications these days make the world your oyster.

So why should we - the great unwashed - fund students education for folk who may not grace our shores for many a year after throwing their academic caps in the air?

A recent workshop organised by the Isle of Man Family History Society in conjunction with Manx National Heritage, proved very successful with sixteen members of the organisation taking the opportunity to learn more about recent innovation within the Reading Room and Library and Archives at the Manx Museum.

Society member Sarah Christian, who also works in the Reading Room, took charge of the afternoon workshop, guiding everyone through various resources readily available, such as manuscripts, online data and printed material.

Manx students are revolting but it's less ‘barricades at Bordeaux’ and more ‘pontificating in the Portal’.

The students are not these days energised by challenging the capitalist system - after all they eventually hope to become part of it. They are challenging the imposition - nay burden - of student charges. (link):

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/manx-university-students...

Treachery and irregularity!

Following a protracted two year legal battle with the Department for Communities & Local Government (DCLG), the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) and others, Cornish campaigners have finally established the hidden truth which lies behind the Government's decision to halt proper funding for the resurgent Cornish language.