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April 2019 marks the 5th anniversary of the recognition of Cornish as a UK minority. Cornish, a language that is “reawakening” according to most linguists. The anniversary has seen renewed efforts to foster the Cornish language.

According to the Endangered Languages Network (ELN) the Celtic language of Brittany is a severely endangered language due to decades of suppression at the hands of the French educational system. Today the number of Breton speakers is roughly 210,000, although estimates vary: “Historical suppression of the Breton language at the hands of Paris has been was extreme to the point that parents were not allowed to name their children with Breton names until 1993. “

In prehistoric times artificial islands were created in the waters of lochs, rivers and sea inlets of Scotland and Ireland. On these island were built ancient loch dwellings, known as crannogs. Some prehistoric crannogs were originally timber-built roundhouses supported on piles or stilts driven into the loch bed. However, in other places, a massive amount of work was undertaken.

Success of Scots Gaelic Medium Education - Bòrd na Gàidhlig Lays Plans for Expansion of Secondary Gaelic Medium Schooling – Investment in Gaelic Cultural Centre in Hebrides

For years, we have been telling people about the Anglocentric BBC and of its underhanded ways. Now that the TV tax is to be imposed on those aged 75 years and over, more and more are agreeing with our stand.

The miserable, overpaid BBC executives should hang their heads in shame.

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The quality of BBC programmes do not reflect the price of the TV license. It is far too expensive for the majority of people and should be abolished.

Media release from the Celtic League:

Celtic League call for international  negotiation to resolve Rockall dispute

News from the Celtic League:

The Celtic League has called for international negotiation in regard to the Rockall fishing dispute:

CELTIC LEAGUE CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION TO RESOLVE ROCKALL DISPUTE

There has been some comment in the press recently about threats to those fishing within the area of Rockall. Rockall is an uninhabitable granite isle and is the eroded rump of an extinct volcano  located in the north of the Atlantic Ocean. It stands to a height of about 56.3ft ( 17.15 m), is some 80ft (25 m) wide and is 100ft ( 31 m) long at its base. The United Kingdom claimed Rockall in 1955 and incorporated it as a part of Scotland in 1972.

There has been much in the news today, marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day. This was the Allied landings in Normandy on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 during World War II (1939 to 1945). The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later western Europe) from Nazi control. However, four years before this operation, it was expected that the invasion force would have been coming in the opposite direction. At that time the German invasion of Britain had seemed inevitable. 

Irish Gaelic is a language that is “threatened” according to most linguists.  Ethnologue, the web page which specializes in monitoring the status of the world’s languages, breaks down the Irish speakers into two groups. There are the native speakers whose first language is Irish (141,000) and those speakers who learn the language in school (1,620,000).

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