Celtic Recipes

News from the Celtic League:

The Celtic League has written a series of articles criticising the use of areas within the Celtic countries being used for military practice. They draw attention (see below) to the compliance of the Manx government in these exercises and the need for the Welsh government to raise objections. The repercussions of the military training, exercises and weapons testing taking place is at present being felt by the killing and maiming of tens of thousands of men, women and children in Yemen by Saudi forces:

Saint Patrick is the primary patron saint of Ireland and Saint Patrick's Day was oberved yesterday 17 March, which is said to be the date of his death. Celebrated inside and outside Ireland as a religious and cultural holiday, it is also a celebration of Ireland and all things Irish. Patrick was a 5th Century missionary, who came from Roman Britain and first arrived in Ireland as a slave. Patrick tells us he came from an area called Bannevam Taburniae.

The late Nigel Kneale is considered to be the Island's most successful radio, television and film scriptwriter, subsequently immortalised by his creation of the cult BBC TV science fiction series Quatermass during the 1950s. But a rarely heard play entitled The Road, recently aired on BBC Radio 4, revealed another side of his work.

He was born in Dalton in Furness in 1922, but the Kneale family returned to the Isle of Man six years later, when his father, a journalist, joined his brother to run the Mona's Herald.

The West Highland Museum has added to its already renowned collection relating to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite cause. A collection of rare Jacobite relics has been given on long term loan to the Museum by a Scottish distiller. The Drambuie Collection was accumulated by the McKinnon family, who owned Drambuie for 100 years. Drambuie is a liqueur made from Scotch whisky, honey, herbs and spices. The link with Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) came after the Battle of Culloden in 1746.