Cymru: Destruction of Capel Celyn One of the ‘Darkest’ Days in Welsh History

October 16, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Wales Minister, Alun Cairns has said the flooding of a Welsh Valley in Gwynedd to provide drinking water for Liverpool was “a shameful chapter in Welsh history”. The village Capel Celyn, one of the last Welsh only

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Manninee Dooie and the Manx Freedom League

September 8, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE In August 2015 I reproduced an article written some years ago for the Celtic History Review in it I referred to the fact that there had been Nationalist movements on the Island, albeit short lived, which predated Mec

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Canada: Name Change Query

August 31, 2010

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE CANADA: NAME CHANGE QUERY “A member of the Alba Branch has contacted the Canadian Embassy in London in an attempt to discover why a city named after its Scottish novelist has been changed in recent history. Iain Ramsay, who was

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