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Rare and interesting items often turn up for auction. One such object is the cooking pot that is thought to have belonged to Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie). Dating back to the Jacobite rising of 1745, when Charles Edward Stuart sought to regain the throne for the exiled House of Stuart, the cast iron 18th century pot is valued at between £15,000 to £20,000.

In seeking to establish its provenance Bonhams annual Scottish auction refers to an extract from 'Story and Songs from Lochness-side', Alexander Macdonald, Inverness, 1914:

The Secretary of An Conradh Ceilteach (the Irish branch of the Celtic League), Caoimhín Ó Cadhla was on Irish TV news this afternoon commenting on the forthcoming NATO exercise and the danger it poses to fishermen.

The League has been monitoring the build up of activity ahead of the exercise due to start on Monday and run for ten days.

The news item on the Irish language bulletin Nuacht on RTE 1 included footage of NATO exercise and fishing craft.

News From The Celtic League:

Very detailed report at this link from Greenpeace which shows just how devastating the sheer volume of fish these vessels can catch and process each day.

Not only the fish they catch but also trawl in small marine mammal’s dolphins and immature whales.

News From Mannin Branch Of Celtic League:

There is an interesting article on the Down News web pages about efforts to monitor the Red Kite population which was reintroduced in Northern Ireland in the Co Down a few years ago.

I thought it might be of interest as we have quite a substantial community of folk who enjoy bird-watching on Mann and who knows the odd Red Kite or two from our adjacent Island might wander across the Irish Sea for a ‘hol’!

“HAVE YOU SEEN A RED KITE

News From The Mannin Branch Celtic League:

Interesting to see the FCA in the United Kingdom went on the offensive when the Panama leaks broke and asked banks to declare any links to Mossack Fonesca.

I bet a penny to a pound there was no such action taken in the Isle of Man by the FSC.

Still its not to late and perhaps the FSC given Chief Minister Allan Bells boast that the Island is squeaky clean and ahead of most other jurisdictions we could go one step further and ask all banks, accountancy firms, csp and legal practices to come clean about any links with MF.

News From The Celtic League:

There is renewed focus on the mystery surrounding the death of SNP member and environmental campaigner Willie MacRae over thirty years after his death.

MacRae’s death on April 7th 1985 on a lonely Scottish road in the Highlands has long been surrounded by controversy and many people in Scotland firmly reject the official verdict that the campaigner committed suicide.

News From Mannin Branch Of The Celtic League:

Mossack Fonesca is the gift that keeps giving!

Jeremy Corbyn today suggests that the United Kingdom should impose direct rule over the British Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies including Mann (see link):

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PETITION: SUPPORT FOR BRETON AND GALLO

I hope our members and supporters will take time to support this petition at change.org being circulated by teachers in Brittany who are pressing the French government for more resources for the teaching of Breton and Gallo

The link is here and it only takes a second to sign:

News From The Celtic League:

We ask how safe will the seas around Britain and Ireland be during Exercise Joint Warrior.

The NATO exercise Joint Warrior 2016 gets underway next Monday and if previous exercises of this type are anything to go by ships and aircraft will already be in transit to their exercise locations.

News From Kernow Matters To Us:

A short paper written by one of our members as part of a greater dissertation has been published on Facebook and has received over 2,000 visits and 'thumbs up' and nearly 50 'shares' in under an hour!

A matter of great irritation if not insult for many Cornish people, the 'C' word has even inspired a poem!

The “C” word :