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The Isle of Man (Manx: Mannin) were crowned winners of the Netball Europe Open Championship 2019 on 12th May. Manx Netball (Manx: Lieen Vluckan Mannin) secured the title after a victory over the Republic of Ireland by 57-45. The victory of the Manx nation's netball team means the Island will obtain their first world ranking in June. The European association (Netball Europe) was originally established in 1989/90 from a development within the International Netball Federation (INF) which created five regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.

News from the Celtic League:

The article below from the Celtic League points to the environmental pollution caused by large cruise ships. This comes at a time when some in the Celtic nations are promoting the economic benefits in terms of increased tourism that these visiting ships could bring. However, it would come at a price:

‘FLOATING MONSTERS’ HOW APT!

News from Mec Vannin - The Manx Nationalist Party:

News from the Celtic League:

Leonardo da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He died on this day five hundred years ago.

The singing of a sea shanty is associated with traditional sailing ships. Bringing back memories of the era when wind-driven packet and clipper ships sailed the world's oceans. A shanty was the type of work song that was once commonly sung to accompany the labour of the crew on board these large merchant sailing vessels.  These traditional ships in full sail are a magnificent site and during the month of August many can be seen around the coasts of Brittany (Breton: Breizh).

News from the Celtic League:

They may not have been as impressive as the Extinction Rebellion demonstrations seen in London and elsewhere, but slowly, people in Cornwall are waking up to the fact that there is something inherently wrong going on in Cornwall with overdevelopment destroying our green and pleasant land.

Easter weekend saw protests break out in Breage and Polzeath.

This comment from Polzeath:

Cornish is a language that is “reawakening” according to most linguists.  The web page Ethnologue, which specializes in monitoring the status of the world’s languages, describes the current state of Cornish as follows: “Taught in some schools and used in periodicals with a current dictionary and grammar rules. There is also a Cornish language bible released in 2017. Religious services are held in Cornish with evening classes, correspondence courses, summer camps, children’s play groups, residential courses, and self-help groups.

Last week Stephen Miller gave a lecture to a well attended meeting at Cecil Sharpe House in London, home of the Folk Dance and Song Society. He was drawing attention to the remarkable work of the Gill Brothers. The Gill brothers, W.H. Gill (1839–1923) and Deemster J.F. Gill (1842–99) have remained marginalised and neglected figures in the collecting of Manx folk song, overshadowed by A.W.