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Following the Catalan parliament's vote to formally begin the process of breaking away from Spain on November 9, 2015, the crisis between Madrid and Barcelona is deepening. The Spanish Government has refused to negotiate with the Catalan Government to allow the people of Catalonia to have a referendum on independence. However, the elections to the Catalan Parliament held on the 27th September 2015, became a plebiscite on independence, with the pro-independence parties winning a majority.

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

The Breton Motor Fishing Vessel (MFV) Bugaled Breizh sank suddenly off the Lizard in January 2004 all hands on board were lost.

Manannan's Choice of the Year (Reih Bleeaney Vanannan) is an annual, cultural award made to an individual or group who made the greatest contribution to the Island's cultural heritage; and this is your chance to nominate a candidate for this unique award.

Nominees tend to be from a wide variety of backgrounds, working to promote and support the Island's language, literature, art, music, dance, history, education and the environment, amongst others.

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

The pro Scottish Independence blog ‘Wings over Scotland’ is four years old today.

By its own admission ‘Wings’ which started out just intending to be an occasional observation on the unfolding scene in Scotland has turned into once of the most visited and authoritative web pages in the United Kingdom. Run by Stuart Campbell it repeatedly takes the main stream media on, analysis’s their (in many instances) lies and corrects them.

The blog has had an astonishing 118 million hits and has 5.5 million users.

Media Release - Kernow Matters To You

Cornwall’s newest campaigning organisation was launched on the first day of the Celtic New Year, Sunday November 1st, 2015 following a packed meeting held in Redruth.

Known as ‘Kernow Matters To Us’, the group gathered and elected a steering group of eight people and adopted a written constitution before appointing  a Chairperson, Secretary and Treasurer.

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

This government is a tyranny in bed with the business community screwing hard-pressed members of the public for all it can take whilst ‘doling out’ money from the reserves to fund grandiose schemes cooked up by its fellow travellers in the Chamber of Commerce and wider business circle.

News From The Celtic League

Bernard Moffatt, Outside Left: Radiation guinea pigs

There are aspects of the British nuclear industry that are like a black comedy.

A few years ago I learned that a UK train-spotters’ magazine openly published details of transports of nuclear waste.

The number of “Cornish Speakers” is reported to be somewhere between 300 and 1500 depending on the source. The Cornish Language Board puts forward the number of 300 Cornish Speakers, according to the Guardian, who claim the language of the Celtic Nation to be their “primary tongue”.   No matter, this language is taking root and beginning to thrive in what until very recently could only be described as a hostile environment.

Local fiddle player, Tomas Callister, has been nominated along with four other musicians, for Instrumentalist of the Year in the annual MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2015, and here's your chance to help him clinch the award.

Organised by Hands Up For Trad, awards will be handed out within sixteen different categories ranging from Album of the Year to Gaelic Singer of the Year, to be announced at a gala evening at the Caird Hall in Dundee on the 5 December.

The annual Ned Maddrell Lecture, hosted jointly by Culture Vannin and Yn Ҫheshaght Ghailckagh, takes place on Saturday 7 November at St John's Mill (Tynwald Mills), and will feature a guest speaker who will be discussing a minority language situation with relevance to Manx Gaelic.

Previous lectures have focused on issues in Nova Scotia, Norfolk Island and the Aboriginal languages of Australia, but this year's lecture will centre on the language revitalisation in Guernsey and Jersey; drawing comparisons with the Isle of Man.