Year: 2023

Just after 1am on 3rd December 1909 the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company’s vessel Ellan Vannin departed from Ramsey. The ship was under the command of Captain James Teare, a man with 18 years of experience with the company eventually reaching the

A surprising win in the Dutch General election for the far right Freedom Party of Geert Wilders. It’s a trend across Europe of the right making gains by peddling a populist message and trading on people’s fears – real or imagined. National parties

The Autumn/Winter issue of Carn (No 186) is with branches at present and being circulated to subscribers.. There are a number of in depth features in each of the National sections plus of course at least one article in each of the Celtic

It’s Armistice day! I remarked yesterday in a post that my father and his brothers fought in the war plus other family members on my mothers side all were ‘lucky’ and came home: https://www.facebook.com/…/a.80637947…/5520834594631923/ I think of the great poet Sassoon: “I knew

Interesting graphic here from the UK Office for National Statistics, It’s not a scientific measure of Cornish identity because there is no Cornish tick box on the census forms at present. However this is based on the number of people almost 100,000 who

Share here from Culture Vannin Facebook about a group of young Manx musicians attending a music festival in Portlaoise in the Irish Midlands. Bernard Moffatt https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=739715528187999&set=a.562833352542885 Bernard Moffatt Celtic League (4th November 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