Celtic Recipes

Cwlwm Celtaidd: Gŵyl ryng-Geltaidd Cymru - The InterCeltic festival of Wales

Submitted by Mair Williams on March 11, 2017 - 1:08pm

Cwlwm Celtaidd is a celebration of the culture, music, song and dance of the Celtic countries of Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, Cornwall, Brittany & Wales. The festival continues this weekend 9 - 12 March 2017 with a full programme of concerts, dances, workshops, street dance displays in the Town Centre and on the Esplanade today (Saturday), ongoing sessions in the bar and Beach Ceilidh planned for Sunday.  Hosted at the Grand Pavilion on the Porthcawl seafront, this family friendly festival continues at full swing.

Growing demand for more Gaelic education in Glasgow

Submitted by Douglas MacQueen on March 11, 2017 - 12:01pm

The demand for Gaelic education is growing in Scotland's largest city Glasgow. The number of pupils in Gaelic Medium Education, where lessons are mainly taught in Gaelic, stands at 900 and the two existing primary schools are full. As reported recently in The Scotsman newspaper the growing demand for Gaelic education has led to the need for a third primary school in Glasgow. Rolls are predicted to increase to 1150 within three years and a report presented to the council’s education committee points out that a “sharp increase” in demand for places had been recorded in August 2016.

John Surtees: Isle of Man TT legend dies at 83

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on March 10, 2017 - 7:10pm

John Surtees (11 February 1934 – 10 March 2017) has died in hospital at the age of 83. John Surtees will always hold a special place in the history of the Isle of Man TT. Seen as the greatest motorcyle race in the world, the Isle of Man TT provides the ultimate test for competitors and machines alike. The International Isle of Man TT (Tourist Trophy) Race was first held on the Island in 1907.

BZH NY announce - Interceltic Festival in New York

Submitted by Dominique Corolleur on March 10, 2017 - 5:54pm

News from Association of Bretons in New York:

Interceltic Festival in New York 

A Fest Noz in the Big Apple

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 

Doors open 6:30pm, Show starts 7:30pm

The Highline Ballroom (431 West 16th St, NYC)

Join us for an unforgettable St. Patrick's day party brought to you by BZH NY and the Lorient Interceltic Festival.

Featuring performances from:

Surge in support for Scottish independence

Submitted by Douglas MacQueen on March 10, 2017 - 5:37pm

A new opinion poll carried out by Ipsos MORI for Scottish Television's STV News, shows that independence for Scotland is now backed by half of voters. Support for autonomy is now five points higher than in the September 2014 referendum. This will give added impetus to those calling for a ballot on Scottish independence to be held in the Autumn of 2018. It also provides a boost for the Scottish National Party ahead of their spring conference in Aberdeen next week.

Cornwall: Advisory Committee On The Framework Convention For The Protection Of National Minorities

Submitted by Kernow Matters to Us on March 10, 2017 - 4:52pm

News from Kernow Matters To Us:

ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES

COUNCIL OF EUROPE*

Fourth Opinion on the United Kingdom - Strasbourg, 27 February 2017

International opinion on the UK Government's policies towards National Minorities including the Cornish.

Isle of Man: Festival Season Springs into Life

Submitted by Valerie Caine on March 9, 2017 - 7:45pm

With daffodils raising their heads well above the parapet, in a seasonal surge of expectation and solidarity, it's a sure sign that the festival season is about to spring into life.

Manx performers will be entertaining audiences both at home and abroad, including the Welsh inter-Celtic festival Cwlwm Celtaidd, headlined by Jamie Smith's Mabon, which includes talented locally based musicians Jamie Smith and Paul Rogers, along with Welsh band Calan who performed in Peel last year.

Isle of Man: The Hammer of Thor

Submitted by Valerie Caine on March 6, 2017 - 4:05pm

Despite its title, this book has little to do with Norse mythology, but one of its meanings, 'fearful destruction', is a perfect epitaph of the life-changing consequences of what was termed the Great War.

The effect of war is, by its very nature, manifold, but in her new book Patricia Skillicorn reveals the true picture of how the Island fared during World War I and what became of it at the cessation of conflict; including some valuable first-hand accounts.

Scotland's First Minister to formally open new museum on Lewis

Submitted by Douglas MacQueen on March 6, 2017 - 1:48pm

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is to formally open a new museum and archive on Lewis (Scottish Gaelic: Leòdhas). Lewis is the northern part of Lewis and Harris (Leòdhas agus na Hearadh), the largest island of the Outer Hebrides (Na h-Eileanan Siar), an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland. The islands are rich in history and were once part of the Norse kingdom of the Suðreyjar, known as The Kingdom of Mann and the Isles.

A Welsh and Hungarian connection with the The Bards of Wales - A Walesi Bárdok by János Arany

Submitted by Mair Williams on March 5, 2017 - 9:35pm

János Arany

In Hungary, there is a famous ballad from the poem called "A Walesi Bárdok" - the Bards of Wales – written by János Arany in 1857. It tells of how in 1277 King Edward I of England attended a banquet in Montgomery Castle. It was held to celebrate his victories over the Welsh and he called for a Welsh bard to sing his praises. Bards were highly regarded in Welsh society at that time, and were thought to be descendants of the Celtic druids.

The praise of the foreign invading English King was something that the bards refused to do. They denounced him as a butcher with the blood of an entire nation on his hands. So, one by one, the King sends them to be burnt at the stake. Still not one of the proud Welsh Bards can be found to flatter him as their conqueror and he ends up murdering 500 in total. The English King returns to London after ravaging the Welsh countryside in a terrible act of revenge. It is said that the evil King is forever haunted by the shades of the dead bards, spending his days in terror of their torment.

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