Kernow: ‘Nation or Country’ Responses

May 30, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Kernow Branch: replies being received following report submission ‘County, Duchy, Nation or Country?’ Following the submission of a lengthy and authoritative report prepared by Craig Weatherhill, Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh, archaeologist, historian and writer of long standing

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Ó Bradaigh Summer School: Focus On Contemporary Struggles

May 30, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Ruairí Ó Brádaigh Summer School takes place on June 6th in Roscommon. The theme of this, the second one, will be to place contemporary struggles in Ireland in the context of 1916 (see below). Ruairí Ó Brádaigh

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Dungavel: Home Office Respond on ‘Istanbul Protocol’ Query

May 30, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League has received a response from UK Home Office Immigration Enforcement following our query about the Dungavel immigration removal centre in Scotland. We wrote to the UK Border Agency in early May asking if medical staff

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Breton News Report

May 30, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE We are always keen to report on events in Brittany and reinforce the ties within the Celtic League to that country. In many ways the Bretons face the greatest challenges of all the Celtic people being dominated by

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Don’t Knock It! Free Speech Is A Great Thing

May 30, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE There has been a burgeoning of social media sites in Mann in recent years (even the CL Mannin Branch eventually entered the fray on Facebook and Twitter) and it has been no bad thing. While social media has

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Were We So Arrogant that We Thought Child Abuse Did Not Happen Here?

May 30, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE It has been revealed that there were a number of child abuse allegations involving the Isle of Man in a report released by the Methodist Church recently. Coincidentally, six years ago (May 2008) we wrote to former Chief

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Army and Security Services Dark Past Back to Haunt Them

May 28, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE ‘Of course the British Government has apologised but that apology is too late for many’ This will be a very brief post just to confirm to our critics the ‘bad news’ that the Celtic League has been proved

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Did ‘Smeargate’ Go Further? Watch This Interview

May 28, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Did ‘Smeargate’ go further than Alistair Carmichael and his aide? Well according to David Mundell, current Scottish Secretary, it did not. Mundell should be in the know as he worked in the Scottish Office with Carmichael at the

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Bercow: Don’t Clap Him Only Me!

May 28, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Scottish SNPs were given a dressing down by Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow for having the temerity to clap and applaud after the leader of the Scottish Group, Angus Roberstson MP, trounced an opponent in

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Armed Forces: Not All ‘Fun’ Then!

May 28, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Oh dear! We’ve been at it again: number-crunching to find out the real facts while the Manx media run ‘fun’ interviews and lucrative adverts as part of the Armed Forces propaganda war they’ve all ‘signed up’ to recently

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