Month: January 2020

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

Dramatic footage here of a Dolphin caught in a trawl in the Biscay area off the French coast and the efforts to try to dislodge it. The footage filmed by Sea Shepherd France who are monitoring the Biscay fishery where hundreds of Dolphins

Books I’m trying to divest myself of them – then Paul Moulton at MTTV pops up interviewing Steve Rodan (President of Tynwald) about a bursary for young people to attend the UN in Geneva and of I go – not to Geneva! On

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

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/…/swan-census-part-of-european-r… However the good news is Whooper swans which travel South from Iceland to winter in Ireland

News from Mannin Branch 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

I wrote some items recently about the late Dr Brian Stowell 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

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=805941286121301 https://www.celticleague.net/…/the-turn-of-the-year-and-me…/ The article was accompanied by a screenshot from CARN

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