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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

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