Celtic Recipes

Amelia Earhart: American aviation pioneer with a special connection to Wales and Ireland

Submitted by Mair Williams on February 1, 2020 - 2:47pm

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author. She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and was also a member of the National Woman's Party and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Her first flight across the Atlantic was undertaken with Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon and after departing from Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland, in a Fokker F.VIIb/3m on June 17, 1928, she landed at Pwll near Burry Port, South Wales, 20 hours and 40 minutes later.

For the past 90 years the people of this part of Wales have commemorated her achievement. So proud are they of this connection to the American aviator a rivalry has developed between the Carmarthenshire villages of Burry Port (Welsh: Porth Tywyn) and its neighbour Pwll, just two miles away. As both Welsh villages claim to be the place where Amelia Earhart touched down to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic.

Scottish Parliament vote in favour of holding further referendum on independence

Submitted by Douglas MacQueen on January 29, 2020 - 10:27pm

Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSP; Scottish Gaelic: Ball Pàrlamaid na h-Alba, BPA) have today backed a Government motion calling for the Scottish Parliament (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrlamaid na h-Alba) to have the power to hold another independence referendum. MSPs voted by 64 to 54 in favour of the Government's motion, with no abstentions that argued "a referendum should be held so that the people of Scotland can decide whether they wish it to become an independent country".

Shetland celebrates its Norse heritage at Up Helly Aa 2020

Submitted by Douglas MacQueen on January 28, 2020 - 2:24pm

Tonight, Tuesday 28th January the 2020 festival of Up Helly Aa will see the skies of Lerwick in Shetland lit up with burning torches. The event including a procession of about 1000 guizers celebrates Shetland's Norse heritage. There is a Guizer Jarl (Chief Guizer) who leads a Jarl Squad, which is one of the many Guizer squads participating in the event. Dressed in Viking clothing and marching through the town with battle axes and torches, they drag with them a ceremonial Viking longboat. Thousands of spectators will line the route.

Isle of Man: Clash Vooar Heading to Denmark

Submitted by Valerie Caine on January 27, 2020 - 11:43am

Local group Clash Vooar will soon be heading to Denmark to represent the Isle of Man in the thirteenth edition of Liet International Festival, amongst a line-up of twenty participants representing regional and minority languages.

Most members of the group, described as having a gypsy/jazz groove, reside in the west of the Island, with regular gigs at both the Centenary Centre and The Whitehouse in Peel, and were selected by an international jury from an extensive list of forty five potential entries - reflecting a growing interest in the Liet International Festival.

Maud Gonne and the 'Daughters of Ireland'

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Submitted by Bernard Moffatt on January 26, 2020 - 1:40pm

News from the Celtic League:

One hundred and twenty years ago in 1900 the Irish radical nationalist womens organisation Inghinidhe na hÉireann was founded by Maud Gonne

The Inghinidhe's objects were defined as follows:

The re-establishment of the complete independence of Ireland

To encourage the study of Gaelic of Irish literature, history, music and art, especially among the young, by the organising and teaching of classes for the above subjects.

To support and popularise Irish manufactures.

Sellafield: The Celtic Leagues Long History of Opposition

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Submitted by Bernard Moffatt on January 26, 2020 - 1:37pm

News from the Celtic League:

The late Dr Brian Stowell was a long time member of the Celtic League and a contributor to Carn it's journal almost from its inception in the early 1970s. Brian and his commitment to the Celtic movement is often seen as synonymous with the Celtic languages he taught both Irish and Manx and was pivotal to the formal inclusion of Manx language education in the teaching curriculum in Mann.

'The Isle of Man and the Manx Language Today' (Brian Stowell 1990)

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Submitted by Bernard Moffatt on January 26, 2020 - 1:34pm

News from the Celtic League:

I wrote a recent item at the end of last year ‘The Turn of the Year and Memories’ posted on our CL Mannin Facebook ages and on the main Celtic League website

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2607790599269685&id=80...

https://www.celticleague.net/…/the-turn-of-the-year-and-me…/

'Out of Africa' - The money that is via the Manx finance sector!

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Submitted by Bernard Moffatt on January 26, 2020 - 1:28pm

News from the Celtic League:

We reported back in August about Isabel dos Santos she’s a nice wealthy lady from Angola who had invested in property in London using Manx business connections.

Many Angolans struggle on subsistence earnings as the country tries to shake of the legacies of decades of colonial exploitation and Civil War,.

Ireland's swans decline but thankfully not 'The Children of Lir'

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Submitted by Bernard Moffatt on January 26, 2020 - 1:25pm

News from the Celtic League:

Report here in the Irish Times about the decline of Bewick Swans in Ireland the species now winter further north in Germany as temperatures are warmer:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/swan-census-part-of-european...

'PONCHO MAMGU'

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Submitted by Bernard Moffatt on January 26, 2020 - 1:22pm

Link here to a trailer and also the full Welsh documentary ‘Poncho Mamgu’. It's a drama documentary (with subtitles) about the life of Elen Davies first as a child in Patagonia and later as a young woman in Wales.

It tells the story of the hardship faced by the early Welsh settlers in the Chubut Valley area of Argentina. The Death of her mother and the friendship and sympathy shown to her by the indigenous Indian people of the area.

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