The Voice of Manx Youth At Hango Hill

January 4, 2016

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Delivering the Illiam Dhone Manx oration at Hango Hill, Isla Callister, symbolises an increasingly confident face of Manx Gaelic language and culture prepared to speak out over issues that the new generation of nationalist see as imperative. Her

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Who Gets To Regulate Themselves In This Day And Age?

December 24, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Now if there’s one thing about Manx Deemsters you can’t accuse them of being stuffy. When given good advice they’ll take it as we noted about five years ago (August 2011) when they introduced a grandly sounding ‘CODE

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‘Crowdfunder’ To Raise Kennish Memorial Funds

November 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE More detail on the Kennish memorial project. The memorial stone will be quarried and carved here (in Foxdale) and then crated and shipped over to Skelmersdale before an international carrier will pick it up and ship it via

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Plans For Kennish Memorial Gravestone In New York

November 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE This weekends commemoration for significant contributors to Manx political and cultural life made me recall a ‘day school event’ I went to some years ago at the old teachers centre in Lord Street, Douglas. The late, Freddie Cowle

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‘Home Where English Can Sound Like Arabic’

November 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE It’s amazing to think that just a few years after the last native speakers of the Manx language had been recorded there was still a Welsh speaking monoglot community existing in Wales. The Manx recordings were vital in

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These People Sicken Me!

November 15, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE You should never succumb to the politics on envy I thought as I surveyed the full page spread in the Manx Independent that just stopped short of showing you ‘the spread’ guests were tucking into. Yes! It was

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Social responsibility – Bloody Hypocrites!

November 10, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The first thing to check is that it’s not the 1st of April when you see an item on Manx Radio business news which opens: “Social responsibility will be high on the agenda at an international summit for

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Protecting Local Fish Stocks? I Don’t Think So!

November 6, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Isle of Man Minister for the Environment, Food and Agriculture, Richard Ronan MHK has said that protecting local fish stocks is a priority of the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture. His comments come after a vessel

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Man: Nominations Sought for Prestigious Award

November 6, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE A news release has come in from Culture Vannin advising that nominations are now being accepted for the Reih Bleeaney Vanannan (RBV) award. The full text of the release is set out below and there are also links

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‘A Militant Manx Woman’

November 6, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE At the annual Illiam Dhone commemoration I called for a greater emphasis to be placed by Manx nationalists on remembering those prominent in the political and cultural sides of the movement. To this end later this month a

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