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Isle of Man: Come to Peel for Family Fun this Weekend!

Submitted by Valerie Caine on August 3, 2016 - 12:02pm

If you're looking for somewhere vibrant, family-friendly and entertaining at the beginning of August, then you need look no further than the west coast of the Island, as the town of Peel prepares for its annual carnival and the Traditional Boat Weekend.

There's more of an international feel to this year's Peel Carnival, with the introduction of Viva Brasil, an exotic troupe of feather-clad, costumed, Brazilian samba dancers, who will be promoting the event and joining the popular afternoon parade.

Wales First Minister Calls For Half a Million New Welsh Speakers

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Submitted by Emmett McIntyre on August 2, 2016 - 10:23pm

In a surprise announcement, Wales First Minister Carwyn Jones has called for the doubling of the number of Welsh speakers by the year 2050.  An ambitious goal given the governments on-going hesitation in introducing Welsh medium educational reforms.  The Welsh Government's Minister for the Welsh Language, Alun Davies, describes the statement by Jones as  "deliberately ambitious".  Plaid Cymru characterized the First Minister's statement as " another superficial stunt".

The European Union and China Like a 'Marine Mafia' Exploiting Our Seas

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on August 2, 2016 - 3:30pm

News the Celtic League:

The Celtic League General Secretary, Rhisiart Talebot, has received a reply from the EU Fisheries Commission about the activities of EU flagged super trawlers in waters forming a broad arc from the NW of Africa to Orkney.

These vessels with a massive processing capacity are rapidly devastating fish stocks in these areas and the issue was recently in focus in Donegal where indigenous fishing are having to go further and fish longer to make a living.

Hedd Wyn

Submitted by Mair Williams on August 1, 2016 - 1:45pm

News from Yr Undeb Geltaidd - Cangen Cymru Wales Branch Celtic League

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Our colleagues at Yr Undeb Geltaidd - Cangen Cymru Wales Branch Celtic League have an interesting post (lifted from History Wales) about the biopic on Welsh writer and poet ‘Hedd Wyn’ (Ellis Humphrey Evans) who was killed in WW1. He was posthumously awarded the bard's chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod.

The film premiered twenty years ago today and eventually was the first Welsh language film nominated for an Academy award.

Judge Criticises 'Ernst and Young' As He Sentences Bankers

Submitted by Eibhlin O'Neill on August 1, 2016 - 1:35pm

News from the Celtic League:

That rare event - crooked bankers being jailed - occurred in Ireland last week when Anglo Irish Bank executives John Bowe and Willie McAteer and the former chief executive of Irish Life and Permanent, Denis Casey were sentenced after being found guilty last month of agreeing a scheme to mislead the public about the true health of Anglo

Cornish Young People Host Breton Teens At Tehidy Camp

Submitted by Dominique Corolleur on July 31, 2016 - 12:50pm

 News from Kernow Matters To Us:

Wonderful news below!

12 Cornish young people played host to 12 of their Breton peers over a 10-day camp at Tehidy Woods recently.

The 24 young people, led by Breton and Cornish youth workers, shared their cultures and languages during the camp, which was organised and run jointly by Kowethas (the Cornish Language Fellowship) and their Breton sister cultural organisation, UBAPAR.

Scottish Independence To The Fore Again

Submitted by Douglas MacQueen on July 30, 2016 - 12:27pm

News from the Celtic League:

The likelihood that Scotland will move to hold another independence referendum has been heightened by the news that the issue which pointedly was not on the SNP conference agenda last year will be included this time. The SNP hold there conference in October in Glasgow.

Meanwhile Party membership continues to grow and recently passed the 120,000 member mark (link):

Celtic Harvest Festival of Lughnasa

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Submitted by Emmett McIntyre on July 26, 2016 - 8:08pm

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The Celtic harvest festival of Lughnasa, traditionally celebrated on the first of August, is the fourth and last of the Feast days of the Celtic year. Although these four feast days are usually referred to as festivals of the pre-Christian Irish Celts, there is evidence that each of the four feast days have more ancient roots and that they were at one time  celebrated throughout the Celtic world.

The connection between the four feast days and ancient Celtic religious practices is illustrated by the famed Coligny Calendar. The Coligny calendar records the important dates in the Celtic year. This artifact, unearthed in France in the late 1897, and which dates from about 200 AD, was created by the Celts of Roman Gaul. There is speculation that the calendar was created by Gaulish Druids to preserve the Celtic religious calendar at a time when Gaulish Celtic culture began to be submerged into the Roman way of life, three centuries after the rape and subjugation of Celtic Gaul by Gaius Julius Caesar.

Fury At Cardiff - Education Minister Rules Welsh as Second Class Language of Instruction - Welsh Language Society Condemns

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Submitted by Emmett McIntyre on July 26, 2016 - 4:14pm

The notion of Welsh medium education enjoys wide support amongst the electorate in Wales. A poll released in late 2014 sponsored by Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (Welsh Language Society) showed 63% of the people surveyed agreed that schools “should teach all pupils to communicate effectively in Welsh” thus ensuring graduates enjoy a command of the Welsh tongue upon graduation.  Studies have shown that bilingually schooled students academically outperform monolingually schooled students.

Chris Killip - Isle of Man Revisited

Submitted by Valerie Caine on July 24, 2016 - 12:07pm

Currently teaching at Harvard University, internationally famous photographer, Chris Killip, recently returned to the Isle of Man for the opening of a new exhibition of his work at the Manx Museum, and to present a sell out talk about his life and work.

His seminal work The Isle of Man: A Book About the Manx, published in 1980, captured a view of Manx life which was soon to disappear, focusing on a rural community through the lens of a plate camera, and the stark black and white images, with which Chris Killip made an indelible mark in the photographic world.

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