Month: April 2016

Two stories about the revival of Gaelic one from the Economist today and another from the other side of the Atlantic about the fortunes of Gaelic in Nova Scotia. The Economist article opens with an innovative initiative to promote the language at Inverness

Let’s face it all the United Kingdom has been for years is ‘the bag-man’ for the United States on the International scene. As the US superseded the UKs Imperial role and started to extend its influence across the globe it was handy to

Bill Malarkey’s intervention over the absence of the option to place Manx as your nationality on the census form raises a number of issues. Bill is so angry he is going to raise it at the next meeting of Westminster Parish Council aka

The current shameful episode in relation to the failure of the Manx government to include the definition ‘Manx’ on the census form reminded me we have been here before. In the mid 1990s the Celtic League campaigned against the introduction of ‘British’ identity

In his WEE GINGER DUG blog, Paul Kavanagh takes a caustic look at the obsessive media coverage of the Queen’s birthday saying: “You may have noticed the wall to wall gushing sycophancy in lieu of news on the telly today. It’s hard to

News from Cymru: Our Dragon is red, Our land is green, We’re Welsh and proud, So we’ll bow to no Queen

News From The Celtic League: The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), began on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916. To mark the centenary a number of events are being held on 24th April 2016. The Citizen’s Commemoration is being held by the

There’s understandable celebration in Ireland at present of the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising and the stand that patriotic Celts took against the power of the British State. However this year also marks the 80th anniversary of an equally courageous stance taken