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Edinburgh (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann), the capital city of Scotland (Alba) is preparing to celebrate Robert Louis Stevenson Day. This is an annual celebration and an important date on Edinburgh’s literary calendar. It marks the birthday of the Edinburgh writer with a week full of events leading up to the date.

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5 mis Du, 2016

ANGER INCREASES FOLLOWING ILL THOUGHT OUT WORDS

Quote of the week: '....the Parties shall refrain from policies or practices aimed at assimilation of persons belonging to national minorities against their will and shall protect these persons from any action aimed at such assimilation. Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities Article 5(2)

A sword and targe belonging to Bonnie Prince Charlie and recovered following Culloden have gone on public display at Perth Museum. Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s intricately decorated sword  and targe (Highland shield) are touring ahead of the opening of the Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The targe, is an elaborately decorated small shield with a finely sculptured head of Medusa at its centre.

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The Cornish and supporters blocked the A388 at Polson Bridge on Sunday 30 October, 2016. So what next?

The arrogance of Sajid Javid MP

News from Manx Language Development Officer for Culture Vannin:

The annual Ned Maddrell Lecture, which is free, features a guest speaker discussing a minority language situation that has a relevance to Manx Gaelic. This year it will be held on Saturday 26th November 2016 at Tynwald Mills Conference Centre at 2pm. The lecture will be on language transmission within the family in Gaidhlig-speaking communities in the Western Isles and will be delivered by Dr Cassie Smith-Christmas; the title is:

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Dr Bernard Deacon launches his latest book:

Cornwall's First Golden Age

Cornish Studies Library

Alma Place

Redruth

TR15 2AT

7pm - 8.30pm Thursday 3 November 2016

Please see attached. Free event. RSVP info@francisboutle.co.uk

A relaunch will take place this week of Edinburgh Napier University's War Poets Collection. Books and other items are housed within the university's Craiglockhart campus. A permanent exhibition gives visitors an opportunity to view the collection, and gain an insight into the personal and social experiences of war through the words, memories, voices and objects that the officers, medical staff and relatives left behind.

Hop-tu-Naa is a Celtic festival celebrated in the Isle of Man (Manx: Mannin) on 31 October. Predating Halloween, it is the celebration of the original beginning of the Celtic New Year. As with Halloween and the customs associated with it, Hop tu Naa is a festival with pagan roots, particularly the Gaelic festival of Samhain (Manx Gaelic: Sauin). It is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals, that include Imbolc, Beltane and Lughnasadh. Widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.

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The search for a Manx cultural champion is on

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Went the day well?

The Polson Bridge occupation of Sunday 30th October, 2016

A fine day weather wise on Sunday 30th October, 2016 bode well for a good protest on the bridge at Polson just beneath Launceston in Cornwall. At Polson the bridge crosses the River Tamar, the time honoured and ancient thousand year old boundary between Celtic Cornwall and Anglo Saxon England, the eastern border of which was set in 936AD  by the then King Athelstan of the Anglo Saxons.