Celtic Recipes

The 'Wild World' of the painter Rockwell Kent

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Submitted by Bernard Moffatt on June 23, 2018 - 2:22pm

BBC Northern Ireland has an interesting piece here on the American artist Rockwell Kent and the time he spent in Ireland (Donegal) in the mid 1920s

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-44534911

Kent was one of a group of socialists and intellectuals who were involved with the American Socialist movement in the early twentieth century.

Seventeenth century Irish Mass rock found in Galway

Submitted by Eibhlin O'Neill on June 22, 2018 - 10:22pm

The Cromwellian invasion of Ireland (1649–53) resulted in the conquest of Ireland by the forces of the English Parliament, led by Oliver Cromwell. The Parliamentarian reconquest of Ireland was brutal, and Cromwell remains a hated figure in Ireland. Cromwell passed a series of Penal Laws against Roman Catholics, who were the overwhelming majority of the population and confiscated large amounts of their land. Laws regulating the lives of Catholics and penalising the practice of their religion were introduced throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.

Kernow: In Memoriam - Donald Rawe

Submitted by Kernow Matters to Us on June 22, 2018 - 8:41pm

With huge sadness, we hear of the passing of Cornish Patriot, Donald Rawe.

Born in Padstow in 1930 of a very longstanding Padstow family, Donald became a Bard of Gorseth Kernow in 1970 with the Bardic name of Scryfer Lanwednoc ('Writer of Padstow') 

He was a hugely influential in Cornish culture, politics, heritage and publishing. 

Donald was a driving force behind the Cornish Literary Guild.

Hunger in the ‘Neverland’ of Manx news

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Submitted by Bernard Moffatt on June 22, 2018 - 5:17pm

The Isle of Man Chamber of Commerce have been in the news in the ‘Neverland’ that is the Manx media

They had a ‘meet’ and stuffed their faces into the bargain.

The title of this little soiree which is reported to us courtesy of their affiliate Manx Radio is ‘Drawing the future’:

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-business/chamber-hosts-drawin...

Hold the front page!

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Submitted by Bernard Moffatt on June 22, 2018 - 3:33pm

I despair I’ve been watching Paul Moulton and Richard Butt glad handing about a meet the public stunt this weekend. Now it may be news after the event but is it news now or just mutual back scratching (link):

https://youtu.be/ulRfzSgLavo

Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against either Butt or Moulton who are both very personable people but seeing a conversation they could have had privately in a pub turned into news leaves me cold.

'Bold Alf' - and rare insect life on the Ayres!

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Submitted by Bernard Moffatt on June 22, 2018 - 11:01am

The Chinese water torture is a process in which water drips on to the victims forehead eventually making them insane.

I suppose Manx Radio can ultimately have the same effect because surely that is what this story in which one noneenity apparently refers to another nonentity as ‘Bold’ is designed to induce.

A can think of a lot of descriptive terms for our current Treasury Minister but Bold is not one of them unless of course Manx Radio are subtly referring to the interpretation of the word as ‘flashy, gaudy, lurid’.

Soldier to face trial over 1988 McAnespie Killing

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Submitted by Bernard Moffatt on June 22, 2018 - 10:18am

News from the Celtic League:

I reported last month on my Transceltic blog about renewed calls for a prosecution over the killing of GAA player Aidan McAnespie at a border crossing in Aughnacloy Co Tyrone in 1988. Now a trial is to proceed.

The British Army said that Mr McAnespie was killed when a GPMG (General Purposes Machine Gun) was accidentally fired.

However the McAnespie family have long disputed the circumstances of the killing citing the harassment that Aidan had endured from the security forces over many years.

Facebook military campaign targets young people

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Submitted by Bernard Moffatt on June 22, 2018 - 9:36am

News from the Celtic League:

‘By appealing to the desire to belong, the Army have latched onto a very powerful recruitment tool, in particular among adolescents who feel isolated or marginalised.’ (ForcesWatch UK June 2018)

Hergés adventures of Juan

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Submitted by Bernard Moffatt on June 20, 2018 - 7:42pm

Juan Watterson Speaker of the Isle of Man House of Keys has been holding forth on population growth during a Tynwald jolly to the Cayman Islands.

The Caymans has imported so much external labour that indigenous people are becoming ‘as rare as hen's teeth’. Juan its seems would like Mann to go the same way. That way we could make every year a ‘year of our Island’ because no bugger would know the first thing about the place. I suppose that would keep Chris Thomas MHK and the other assorted political imports happy.

'Popeye'! He thinks we've got water on the brain.

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Submitted by Bernard Moffatt on June 20, 2018 - 3:39pm

First they froze you then they starved you soon having a drink of water could become a ‘luxury’.

News that the Manx government is considering metering for domestic water shows there is absolutely no political gutter that this wretched Tynwald will not trawl.

In the Republic of Ireland metering has led to fierce controversy with politicians not only berated but physically attacked. Folk have been jailed in water protests.

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