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Building Conservation Forum

Culture Vannin has established a new committee to raise awareness of the Island’s built environment. The Building Conservation Forum was set up last summer in order to explore ways of promoting and protecting the Island’s historic buildings.

As worldwide recognition of Manx traditional music continues to grow, local group Barrule will embark on the band's first tour of North America.

This exciting opportunity arose when the all-male trio played at a showcase festival in Montreal called La Grande Rencontre, after establishing contact with festival organiser, Gilles Garand, at the world music expo WOMEX three years ago.

Nova Scotia’s Office of Gaelic Affairs, which works to promote the Gaelic language and ensure that Gaelic culture continues to thrive in Nova Scotia, have sponsored the publication of “Nova Scotia Gaelic On-Line Resources”. This valuable reference tool provides a link to 27 organizations dedicated to the protection, preservation and promotion of the Gaelic Language and culture in Nova Scotia.

News From The Celtic League:

I wrote yesterday about the Chronicles of Man and that provoked several queries from Celtic League followers in Wales, Ireland and Scotland seeking more details.

The question of Celtic artefacts held in institutions primarily in the South East of England (London) area has long been contentious. To add insult to injury often these artefacts whose provenance to the institutions in question is questionable are loaned back to the countries from which they were removed.

The first of their two spring concerts was held in St Paul's Church in Ramsey, where an attentive audience enjoyed an extensive programme involving a range of choral pieces.

Members of the acapella choir were challenged by a diverse collection of work, created by a wide selection of composers from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.

By concentrating on such a variety of early music, Tallis Consort brought a wealth of rich resource to its Island audiences through their occasional concerts at selected venues.

There are many forms of heritage, built and spoken amongst them.

That's why we are promoting the importance of Cornish language which the Westminster Government is trying to destroy by unlawfully breaching the charter agreement signed in 2002 and deliberately holding from us £150,000 of OUR tax money intended for language development.

The Republic of Ireland and Wales carry Celtic hopes for Euro 2016. The 2016 UEFA European Championship, the international men's football championship of Europe organized by UEFA is to be held in France from 10 June to 10 July 2016. The European Championship final tournament will be contested by 24 teams, Euro 2016 kicks off on 10 June, with the final a month later on 10 July. Of the teams who qualified for the tournament Belgium, Germany, Spain and the hosts France are amongst the favourites to lift the trophy.

News from Kernow Matters To Us:

Here is the tale of three statues.

One is situated in Llandovery, Cymru and is set next to the castle there which is managed by the Welsh Heritage Agency, CADW. It depicts a real historical figure, Prince Llewellyn the Great who was probably the last true Prince of Wales before the English at the time forcibly occupied Wales. Llewellyn was a real Welsh hero. The statue looks rather elegant and sits alongside the castle mound not interfering with the archaeology of the site.

News from the Celtic League:

Wikipedia (see related link 1) records the Calf of Man (the small Island and bird sanctuary off the South of Mann) being gifted to the ‘National Trust’ in 1939. But this was not the Manx National Trust it was the English body.

When a Manx National Trust was eventually established in 1951 it did nothing to rectify the anomaly taking the view as it does now over the Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles that a donation of this type to English institutions is inviolable.

The Urdd National Eisteddfod (Welsh: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Urdd Gobaith Cymru) starts this week (30 May – 4 June) in Flintshire (Welsh: Sir y Fflint) in north-east Wales. Around 15,000 competitors and estimated visitors numbering 90,000 will visit the week-long event being held on a site surrounding Flint High School (Ysgol Uwchradd y Fflint). One of Europes largest youth festivals the annual Welsh-language youth festival of literature, music and performing arts is organised by Urdd Gobaith Cymru.