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Message from Kernow Matters To Us:

TO: OUR OVERSEAS FRIENDS AND FAMILY! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO FIGHT DEVONWALL TOO!

ARE YOU CORNISH, OF CORNISH ANCESTRY, OR SUPPORT CORNWALL AND HER PEOPLE, INDIGENEOUS AND OTHERWISE?

The Cornish people walked the world! We settled in many parts of it. Many countries now recognise the Cornish as a distinct nationality and allow for this on official returns, census and so on.

News from the Mannin Branch Celtic League:

The Celtic League Mannin Branch have publicly acknowledged the detail and comprehensive nature of an MAIB report into an Irish Sea incident in which the MFV Karen was snagged a year ago by an unidentified Royal Navy submarine.

Text of a Manx Radio report below - an audio clip is at the link:

“Irish Sea fishing dangers exposed

News from the Breton Branch Celtic League:

Bugaled Breizh:

INQUEST in January-2017 in Britain 

Members of London Manx Society (Manx: Yn Cheshaght Vanninagh Lunnin) attended a Mhelliah Service at St Bride's Church in London's Fleet Street on Monday 10th October. A Mhelliah is a traditional Celtic harvest festival that remains popular on the Isle of Man (Manx: Mannin), 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 festival:

The fate of the Irish language is, at this time, in the hands of a Government that is failing to protect Ireland’s culture. There are bad governments and good governments. Ireland’s....administration falls into the bad category, particularly when it comes to the health of the Irish language. The problem is that the present Irish government has the ability to seriously damage the Irish language before they are consigned to history. – Transceltic’s Eibhlin O’Neill

From Donegal Now:

News from the Celtic League:

TIME GOVERNMENTS TACKLED THIS SUBMARINE MENACE

The Marine Accident Investigation Report into the collision between a Royal Navy submarine and the Co Down MFV Karen a year ago has finally been released (link):

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/…/MAIBInvReport20_…

Kernow Matters To Us – No to Devonwall Campaign updates

Early Day Motion in House of Commons and the aftermath!

A big thank you to Cornwall Councillor Dick Cole and his team for liaising closely with Plaid Cymru and achieving the tabling of an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the Westminster House of Commons.

You can read about it here:

As the breathtaking scenery of Cape Breton Island takes on a rich mantle of vibrant colour during its most spectacular season, the twentieth anniversary Celtic Colours Festival will also be attracting many visitors and musicians - including two groups from the Isle of Man.

Local favourites Mec Lir and Barrule made a memorable impact at the annual event on previous occasions, and have been invited back especially for the anniversary celebration.

News from Kernow Matters To Us:

Plaid Cymru's Jonathan Edwards MP has tabled an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons which sets out opposition to the creation of a cross-Tamar parliamentary constituency.

Kernow Matters To You (KMTU) has sent a fact-filled dossier to the leader of every political party represented in the House of Commons as well as to many members of the House of Lords, to the Duchy of Cornwall and to Prince Charles himself as well as the the Council of Europe and the United Nations.

The EDM, numbered 487, reads as follows:

News from the Celtic League:

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has responded to our further query about the fate of the Chagos Islanders who were forcibly removed from their homeland sixty years ago so that the United Kingdom could allow the United States to construct a military base there to dominate the Indian Ocean, East Africa and the Middle East.

In 2000 the Celtic League joined a wave of protest internationally about the treatment of the Chagossians and at our AGM held that year in Mann (Isle of Man) the following resolution was adopted:

“This AGM: