Year: 2023

Two books about Irish revolutionaries women is too much to purchase on the one day even for me so I lean on my daughter (Angela) to put it in ‘Santa’s stocking’ for me – she obliges. Máire Comerford was described by journalist John

I must have been sleeping myself because two years ago I missed the publication of another book about Maud Gonne. Gonne the famous revolutionary, suffragete and actress who helped found the precursor of Cumman na mBann (Inghinidhe na hÉireann) is picked over yet

With the Chronicles in the news I thought I would recall the Celtic League campaign over the ownership of the Calf of Man and the great debt we owe to three men in particular all now deceased Ivor Kenna, Padraig O’Conchuir and Seamus

The Manx language festival Cooish is on in November I get a press release via Breesha Maddrell who says: “The Cooish is a fun and friendly festival which takes place annually, and is organised by the community for the community. This year’s festival

While the Manx government are fairly laid back – dismissive almost of seeking the return of ‘The Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles’ political figures in other Celtic countries are not so inactive Early this year the Irish Labour TD

Irish military, police and customs officers have seized a vast cargo of cocaine destined for Europe in a major operation in the Celtic Sea involving the Military, Police and Customs. The drugs on a Panamanian flagged vessel (MV Matthew) were due to be

The Chronicles of Man and the Isles are back in the news briefly courtesy of Manx Chief Minister Alf Cannan and John Wannenburgh MHK. They appear out of the mists of time periodically only to sink back into the oblivion of the vaults

Despite the fact the Chronicles of Mann were likely compiled in the Isle of Man, document the history of the Isle of Man in the crucial Norse period and were kept here for hundreds of years they are not ours says Chief Minister

A major air exercise concludes today in the United Kingdom. ‘Exercise Cobra Warrior’ has ranged over a two and a half week period since the 4th of September. In that time areas in Wales, Scotland and over the Irish Sea have borne the