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After almost 25 years’ service as an officer of the Manx Heritage Foundation, now Culture Vannin, Charles Guard, retired at the end of March. The occasion was marked by a small gathering of board members and officers and the presentation of a gift to mark his long-service to public life. Charles’ contribution to Manx culture has been, and will no doubt continue to be remarkable, as his formal retirement by no means marks the end of his love of Manx culture but merely a new phase of how he will go about it.

News From The Mannin Branch Celtic League:

Two issues that Celtic League has highlighted have coalesced as Highland Council and environmental campaigners have spoken out against proposals to ship highly toxic radiation waste from Dounreay in Northern Scotland to the United States.

The suitability of some vessels tasked with carrying nuclear waste was called into question after the fire last year on the Danish Ro Ro vessel, MV Parida.

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It is now almost fifty years since Aer Lingus flight EI712 crashed on Sunday March 24th 1968 off the Wexford Coast.

The plane was just minutes into a routine flight from Cork to Dublin when control was lost and after descending for over 10 minutes in a spiral path the aircraft crashed into the sea near Tuskar Rock. All 61 people on board died.

News From The Mannin Branch Celtic League:

One of a group of Welsh Nationalists who tried to stop construction of the Tryweryn Dam over fifty years ago by blowing up infrastructure at the construction site has written a book. Their attempt to stop the work was unsuccessful and the controversial dam opened in 1965.

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The somewhat innocuous looking barn is the site of one of what sadly would become one of many massacre’s committed in World War 2.

Soldiers of the Warwickshire and Cheshire Regiment were taken to the barn after being taken prisoner by the 1st Liebstandarte Division of the SS. The German troops eventually through stick grenades into the barn and killed most of those inside.

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The public are invited to what is sure to be a fascinating lecture

Often entitled the 'University of Freedom' Frongoch Camp was home to hundreds of Volunteers after the 1916 Rebellion and it is there they began to re-organise towards the Black And Tan War which broke our it in early 1919.

News From The Celtic League

Necrology Wall at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin Opposed. 

At this year’s AGM Caoimhín Ó Cadhla, Secretary of Craobh na hÉireann  /The Irish Branch 

of An Conradh Ceitleach, put forward the following emergency motion which was 

accepted unanimously.

‘The Celtic League AGM demands an end to the 1916 Remembrance Wall in Glasnevin 

Cemetery immediately, as we believe it is inappropriate to create an equivalence between 

The notion of Welsh medium education enjoys wide support amongst the electorate in Wales. A poll released in late 2014 sponsored by Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (Welsh Language Society) showed that  63% of the people surveyed agreed that schools “should teach all pupils to communicate effectively in Welsh” thus ensuring graduates enjoy a command of the Welsh tongue upon graduation.  Studies have shown that bilingually schooled students academically outperform monolingually schooled students.

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