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Time to Stop Nonsense of Isle of Man Behaving Like a Sycophantic Colony

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on June 18, 2021 - 2:58pm

Here we are in the year 2021 and the Isle of Man (Manx: Mannin) still has a Lieutenant Governor!  A representative of the British monarchy (head of state), styled as "His Excellency". A topic that is to the fore at the moment as the five year term of the present governor has come to its end. After advertising for a new one, their identity is due to be announced. A nice little number for a civil servant who will get an official residence, all expenses paid, at Government House and receive an annual salary of around £108,208.

A newsletter from 'Kernow Matters To Us'

Submitted by Kernow Matters to Us on June 17, 2021 - 10:26pm

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16 Mys Metheven, 2021

A why agas oll wheg, 

The G7 Summit - a great show of Cornish distinctiveness

Kernow Matters message of thanks to the police

Submitted by Kernow Matters to Us on June 17, 2021 - 10:12pm

Kernow Matters (KMTU) has written to the Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police, to the Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon and Cornwall and to the Devon and Cornwall Diversity and Human Rights team as follows......

Kernow

13 Mis Metheven 2021

Dear Chief Constable, Police and Crime Commissioner, Ladies & Gentlemen

G7 Summit Cornwall

Well, it's over and the politicians have departed in their big cars and aircraft leaving the rest of us to clear up and to see if there is to be a legacy.

Celtic Nations of Scotland and Wales in European Football Championship

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on June 14, 2021 - 12:41pm

The UEFA European Football Championship contended by the men's national teams are now underway. The Celtic national teams that have qualified for the tournament are Wales and Scotland. There are twenty-four teams now battling through the group stages of the competition. Wales had their first match on Saturday (12th June) with a 1-1 draw with Switzerland. Scotland play their first match against the Czech Republic this afternoon (14th June).  Although this tournament is being played in 2021, it was scheduled to take place last year but had to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Possibly the most successful displays of Cornish identity thus far during the G7 Summit

Submitted by Kernow Matters to Us on June 14, 2021 - 10:57am

We will be reporting further on this in due course but highly successful and impactive expressions of concern about the environment of Cornwall and Cornish rights which drew positive support from the wider public and even the police who waved and sounded their horns as they passed by. Good humoured and witnessed by thousands......

The Kernow Matters 'I Rake a Cornish Beach Team'

National Library of Scotland Purchases 16th Century Chronicle of Fortingall

Submitted by Douglas MacQueen on June 9, 2021 - 8:53pm

The Chronicle of Fortingall is a Highland Perthshire manuscript written in Latin, Scots and Gaelic. It was compiled between 1554 and 1579 and includes poetry, short texts, and records of contemporary events. The contents include lists of Scottish kings and notes on their reigns, a Gaelic poem in a writing system based on Middle Scots, a chronicle recording the deaths of prominent men and women within the Highlands from 1390 to 1579 and a list of battles from Bannockburn (1314) to Flodden (1513). The Chronicle has now been secured for the Scottish nation.

Scottish Warrior Robert the Bruce died on 7th June 1329

Submitted by Douglas MacQueen on June 9, 2021 - 6:05pm

This week marks the anniversary of the death of King Robert I of Scotland (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329) popularly known as Robert the Bruce. He became King of Scotland in 1306. Revered as a national hero he reigned as King of Scots until his death in 1329. Robert led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England and fought successfully to regain Scotland's place as an independent country.

Ancient Irish Standing Stone and Death of Cúchulainn

Submitted by Eibhlin O'Neill on June 6, 2021 - 5:23pm

Cuchulain in Battle, illustration by J. C. Leyendecker in T. W. Rolleston's Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race, 1911.

There is an ancient standing stone in a field not far from the village of Knockbridge (Irish: Droichead an Chnoic)  known locally as ‘The Field of Slaughter'.  It stands at 3 m (10 ft) tall and 1.3 m (over 4 ft) wide and is thought to date to the Bronze Age (2,400 - 500 BC). This menhir is said to have been originally erected to mark the grave of a past great warrior and is called Clochafarmore (Irish: Cloch an Fhir Mhóir). Sometimes this standing stone is referred to as Cúchulainn's Stone and legend has it that it is the site where another great Irish hero and warrior, Cúchulainn, met his end.
 

Cú Chulainn or Cúchulainn is said to be the son of Lugh, a god in Irish mythology and member of the pre-Christian Gaelic pantheon the Tuatha Dé Danann. The Tuatha Dé Danann form a significant feature in Irish, Scottish and Manx mythology who had supernatural ability and were of great importance to the belief systems of the Gaelic people. In the Ulster Cycle, one of the four great cycles of Irish mythology,  Lugh fathered Cú Chulainn with the mortal maiden Deichtine who was the sister of Conchobar mac Nessa the king of Ulster. Cúchulainn is the principal character of the epic Irish saga the Táin Bó Cuailgne commonly known as The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Táin which is traditionally set in the 1st century AD.

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