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News From Kernow Matters To Us

With three members of 'Kernow Matters To Us' (KMTU) due to meet senior representatives of English Heritage next Tuesday 22nd March, 2016, and with the news that English Heritage (EH) are building many more attractions at Tintagel castle including a romantic 'Tristan and Iseult Love Trail' coupled with 'Easter Bunny Rabbit Hunts', the matter has now made the Guardian of London. 

News From Kernow Matters To Us

An idea to record basic introductory lessons in the Cornish language as podcasts has proven to be an internet hit.

Cornish language teacher and Bard of the Cornish Gorseth, Clive Baker came up with the idea recently and with four half hour sessions recorded already, the lessons have been widely circulated around the internet and are already receiving over a thousand visits each.

At the western end of the mountain range of the Grampians (Scottish Gaelic: Am Monadh) stands the highest mountain in Scotland and the British Isles. Ben Nevis (Scottish Gaelic: Beinn Nibheis) is visited by many thousands of people each year who enjoy outstanding views and the breathtaking beauty of the surrounding glens. Guide books for Ben Nevis will inform you that the mountain stands at 4,409 feet (1,344 metres) above sea level.

An exhibition, entitled A Brief Flowering, will be held at Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw from 20 March until 15 May 2016. It features the work of John Cyrlas Williams (1902-1965) who was once tipped as one of Wales’ most promising young painters. The son of a collier, he was born into a Welsh mining community in the United States. His father went on to become a mine owner, and the family moved to Porthcawl on the south coast of Wales.

As reported in the Irish Times 'From Montserrat to Perth: national day celebrated around world' . The paper gives a selection of 14 parades being held internationally. Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, "the Day of the Festival of Patrick"), is held on 17 March. Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461), is the patron saint of Ireland.

NEWS FROM THE MANNIN BRANCH CELTIC LEAGUE

Events just seem to derail Allan Bell (Chief Minister) and COMIN (Council of Ministers Proceedings) in their attempts to tell us that the Island is on the verge of a GREAT LEAP FORWARD akin to the move by Mao back in the 1960s to rescue the failing Chinese economy.

In September 1297, the forces of William Wallace and  Andrew de Moray defeated a much larger English force at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Now leading public artist Malcolm Robertson has been chosen to develop a major artwork at the site of the historic Battle. The site lies directly beside Old Stirling Bridge, which was built in the early 16th century and replaced the old wooden bridge which gave the battle its name.

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

A seventy-seven year old Glasgow pensioner, Brian Quail, proved you are never too old to make your mark when yesterday he stopped several 100 kiloton nuclear warheads in their tracks.

Convoys of nuclear warheads are a familiar site in Scotland where they transit to and from the weapons repository at AWE, Berkshire, England to the Submarine Armaments Depot (RNAD) at Coulport, Argyll in Scotland.

After long years of indifference on the part of the Irish Government toward the health of the Irish language, things just might be changing. Soon the Celtic tongue will begin to get the respect it deserves.  At least that is what defenders of the Irish language can be permitted to believe. The Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaelige) have haled the results of the February 26 elections and its hoped for impact on the tongue.  Following the results of the February 26th Parliamentary election, the Gaelic League have released the following statement:

As reported in the Irish Times more than 360,000 people are expected to attend the Easter Sunday parade in a packed Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) to mark 100 years since The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca) in 1916. This uprising was mounted by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland.