Celtic Recipes

Isle of Man: Cast Your Vote Now for Manx Fiddle Player in Scottish Music Awards

Submitted by Valerie Caine on November 4, 2015 - 4:58pm

Local fiddle player, Tomas Callister, has been nominated along with four other musicians, for Instrumentalist of the Year in the annual MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2015, and here's your chance to help him clinch the award.

Organised by Hands Up For Trad, awards will be handed out within sixteen different categories ranging from Album of the Year to Gaelic Singer of the Year, to be announced at a gala evening at the Caird Hall in Dundee on the 5 December.

Author of Quatermass Series Remembered at Manx LitFest

Submitted by Valerie Caine on November 2, 2015 - 12:45pm

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Nigel Kneale is remembered locally for being the Island's most successful radio, television and film script writer, and more broadly for writing groundbreaking screenplays for the cult 1950s BBCTV science fiction series, Quatermass. But his son, Matthew Kneale, (also a published author) was invited to speak at this year's Manx LitFest, when he made two very successful appearances in Douglas and Peel to talk of his own work and that of his father.

Isle of Man: Ned Maddrell Lecture 2015

Submitted by Valerie Caine on November 1, 2015 - 9:37pm

The annual Ned Maddrell Lecture, hosted jointly by Culture Vannin and Yn Ҫheshaght Ghailckagh, takes place on Saturday 7 November at St John's Mill (Tynwald Mills), and will feature a guest speaker who will be discussing a minority language situation with relevance to Manx Gaelic.

Previous lectures have focused on issues in Nova Scotia, Norfolk Island and the Aboriginal languages of Australia, but this year's lecture will centre on the language revitalisation in Guernsey and Jersey; drawing comparisons with the Isle of Man.

Mannin: Education Cuts As £50 Million Give Away Approved And ‘Pigs Trough’ At Manx Gas

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on November 1, 2015 - 8:54pm

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It’s a National disgrace just days after Tynwald approved like a load of ‘nodding donkeys’ a £50 million give away to private sector business it has been revealed that education budgets have been cut.

Isle of Man newspapers, presumably using the access to information code with which they are becoming increasingly adept, reveal cuts at four of the five secondary schools, this despite stringent efficiencies that have already been imposed over recent years.

Manx Gas: A Couldn’t Care Less Manx Government

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on November 1, 2015 - 8:45pm

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Last week the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), which has co-signed the ‘sweetheart’ deal which allows Manx Gas to charge consumers just about what it wants, told us:

‘One of the three key priorities of the current administration is to “Protect the Vulnerable” and the Council of Ministers and all Departments and Statutory Boards have this high on their agendas’

Well how high is ‘high’?

Protect Your Place Names To Protect Your History

Submitted by Mair Williams on November 1, 2015 - 8:39pm

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Not known for pulling her punches the Language Commissioner for Wales, Meri Huws (picture), has said that place names should enjoy the same protection as listed buildings.

She told BBC Wales that changes to historic place names should be banned by law and that certain names should be given added protection by being placed on a ‘statutory register’.

The Deputy Culture Minister in the parliament of Wales Ken Skates attempted to question the idea saying the idea would be very difficulty to deliver.

‘A Militant Manxwoman’

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on November 1, 2015 - 8:34pm

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At the annual Illiam Dhone commemoration I called for a greater emphasis to be placed by Manx nationalists on remembering those prominent in the political and cultural sides of the movement.

To this end later this month a talk will be given by Bob Carswell on the life and work of Colin Jerry (details from Mec Vannin).

Mannin: Government Urged To Follow Scots Example On Return Of Artefacts

Submitted by Douglas MacQueen on October 31, 2015 - 8:39pm

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The Celtic League has urged the Isle of Man government to make a further approach to the United Kingdom about returning ‘The Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles’ to the Island.

The Chronicles are currently held by the British Library and an attempt by the Isle of Man five years ago which was supported by a number of politicians and the local newspaper group proved abortive.

A Dark Halloween Visitor From Outer Space!

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on October 31, 2015 - 5:37pm

The Celtic festival Halloween is celebrated on the night of 31st October and 1st November every year and is associated with the Celtic feast of Kala-Goañv (Breton), Calan Gwaf (Cornish), Samhain (Irish), Sauin (Manx Gaelic), Samhuinn (Scottish Gaelic) and Calan Gaeaf (Welsh). In the Isle of Man it is the date of the celebration known as Hop tu Naa. Traditionally it is a time of year when the worlds of the living and the dead were seen to be at their closest.

The Most Significant Period In Manx History - Hang On Something’s Missing!

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Submitted by Alastair Kneale on October 31, 2015 - 4:22pm

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The Manx Museum and National Trust (aka Manx National Heritage) publicised the opening of a new ‘Kingdom of Man’ gallery at the House of Manannan in Peel.

However it’s not what is on display that’s significant it’s what is missing. The Museums blurb accompanying the launch says:

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