Breton Magazine Highlights Two Issues That The Celtic League Has Long Campaigned On

September 30, 2016

Our Breton branch colleague Joss Le Gall reports that two issues that the Celtic League has campaigned on for some time feature in the magazine ‘Bretons’ A history of the disaster that overtook the Motor Fishing Vessel Bugaled Breizh will be covered and

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‘Stop Arming Saudi’

‘Stop Arming Saudi’

September 24, 2016

The Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) is keeping to the pressure over the UK arms shipments to Saudi Arabia. In the last few days there have been further air raids by the Saudi Air Force on civilian areas schools and health care

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Alba: Boost For Gaelic Education

Alba: Boost For Gaelic Education

September 24, 2016

Thousands of schoolchildren could receive their first Gaelic language lessons thanks to a Scottish Government funding award. Feisean nan Gaidheal, the organisation which supports the development of community-based Gaelic arts tuition festivals, is to be given £33,000 by ministers. The funding will allow

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Tributes Paid To Breton Language Campaigner

September 14, 2016

The Breton site ‘Support the Reunification of Brittany’ has a tribute to an activist for the Breton language and campaigner for reunification of the historic Breton State who has died: “KENAVO MARTIAL MÉNARD – A last “Kenavo” to one of Brittany’s best linguists

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‘Unwelcome Landlord’ – A Brief History Of Manx Nationalism And Opposition To British Rule

September 14, 2016

News Drom Mannin Branch Celtic League: In the mid 1990s THE CELTIC HISTORY REVIEW produced a two part series on Manx Nationalism charting its development from the early 1900s until 1970. Original copies of the Celtic History Review are held in the Manx

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Food And Fashion – The Worlds Oceans Are Being Decimated

September 14, 2016

The earlier post which referred to the annual slaughter of pilot whales in the Faeroes Islands reminded me of the casual way in which society still exploits the marine environment either for food stocks or in the case of the seal slaughter in

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