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New Album Celebrating Cultural and Musical Links Between Scotland and Isle of Man

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on March 26, 2021 - 2:46pm

A new album that will celebrate the cultural and musical links between the Isle of Man (Manx: Mannin) and Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is to be recorded by a Scottish harpist and Manx Gaelic Singer. Scotland's Rachel Hair is seen as one of the world’s finest exponents of Scottish harp (clarsach) playing. She has performed internationally, released five critically-acclaimed albums and published four harp books. Ruth Keggin has released two critically-acclaimed solo albums in the Manx Gaelic language.

Because we care!

Submitted by Kernow Matters to Us on March 24, 2021 - 11:17am

Recently, Steph and her fiancé came in for much abuse from 'up country' for wishing to use the Cornish language at their wedding. 

The comments made via the London based media was truly shocking. 

Even local media Facebook pages became littered with vile remarks.

Sadly, media outlets fail to accept responsibility for what their followers write and say and it is a well known fact that anything relating to Cornwall and the Cornish national minority results in racist remarks. This fact was recently reported on by a Cornish academic.

Scottish Island of Fraoch Eilean Legendary Place of the Death of a Celtic Hero

Submitted by Douglas MacQueen on March 20, 2021 - 3:36pm

Loch Awe painting by Alexander Nasmyth (1758 - 1840)

Fraoch Eilean is a small island at the northern end of Loch Awe (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Obha), a freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands (Scottish Gaelic: a’ Ghàidhealtachd). It is one of a number of islands within the loch. The island of Fraoch Eilean has a particular legend attached to it and has a name that links it with an ancient Celtic hero known as Fraoch or Fráech.

He appears in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. The Ulster Cycle (Irish: an Rúraíocht) is  one of the four great cycles of Irish mythology and is a body of medieval Irish heroic legends and sagas. It is thought the stories take place around or before the 1st century AD.

Destruction at Carbis Bay, Cornwall ahead of G7 Summit

Submitted by Kernow Matters to Us on March 19, 2021 - 1:20pm

The photographs below show a couple of brave protesters who went in to the building site during 18th March, 2021, while building was going on, to show what they thought about the utter desecration of this unique piece of landscape, a site that has been savagely cleared of the existing natural environment of a mixed and self-evolved ecology of mature trees, shrubs, plants, animals, birds and insects.

Cornwall Council Enforcement Team have intervened but the work continues and has shocked not only local residents but people from further afield.

Isle of Man: Dangers of Crown Dependency Status Exposed

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on March 18, 2021 - 2:07pm

According to a report in the British Times newspaper today (18th March 2021) the United Kingdom (UK) is seriously looking at establishing centres abroad where asylum seekers could be sent for processing. The article also suggests that the British overseas territory of Gibraltar is under consideration by officials, as well as the Isle of Man and other islands close to the British coast.

Handwritten Rediscovered Robert Burns' Song to be Auctioned

Submitted by Douglas MacQueen on March 17, 2021 - 2:57pm

A handwritten copy of a song by Robert Burns, rediscovered in an album is about to be auctioned and could fetch between £8,000 - £12,000. Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) was born in the Scottish village of  Alloway (Scottish Gaelic Allmhaigh) and is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. The song is called The Banks of the Cree.

St Patrick's Day celebration 2021 one of quiet contemplation

Submitted by Eibhlin O'Neill on March 17, 2021 - 11:26am

March 17th is both a religious holiday and a day of celebration for Irish people and those with an Irish connection around the world. Saint Patrick's Day festivities in 2021 are more retrained than normal in many places due to the coronavirus pandemic. For many this year it will be a day of quiet contemplation about the Saint himself and his works. Saint Patrick is the primary patron saint of Ireland and Saint Patrick's Day is oberved today 17 March, which is said to be the date of his death.

Leo Varadkar retracts and apologises for 'no Sinn Féin Protestants' claim

Submitted by Eibhlin O'Neill on March 14, 2021 - 2:47pm

Tánaiste (Irish Deputy Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has apologised and retracted a claim that Sinn Féin has no Protestants as senior politicians. Sinn Féin is an Irish republican political party dedicated to the reunification of Ireland and an end to British jurisdiction in the north of Ireland. It is the joint largest party in the Dáil and the second-largest party in the Northern Assembly. Mr Varadkar made his remark that Sinn Féin had no Protestant politicians in the Dáil (Irish parliament) or in the Northern Ireland Assembly when speaking on RTÉ Radio's News At One programme.

Council of Europe reopens review into murder of Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane

Submitted by Eibhlin O'Neill on March 13, 2021 - 4:38pm

There is an article published today by the Celtic League about the murder of Pat Finucane. In 1989 Pat Finucane (39) was shot dead by loyalists at his home in north Belfast. It happened in front of his wife Geraldine, who was also injured, and their children Michael, Katherine and John.  It was found that loyalist paramilitaries were acting in collusion with the British government intelligence services. It is not the only such case of murders by loyalist gangs said to be acting with the alleged connivance of British security agencies.

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