Mair Williams's blog NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE There will be Easter Rising commemorations in North Wales. Following the rising in 1916 many of those detained by the British Army were imprisoned at Frongoch ...
Mair Williams - Aug 22 2015 - 12:18am - 0 comments
Douglas MacQueen's blog News from the Celtic League: Although the centenary commemorations of the Easter Rising in Dublin are now over the role of the Scots involved in the struggle to ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jan 16 2017 - 3:21pm - 0 comments
Eibhlin O'Neill's blog NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE DUBLIN AGM WILL MARK CENTENARY OF EASTER RISING The Irish branch of the Celtic League (An Conradh Ceilteach) will ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Feb 23 2016 - 11:03am - 0 comments
Mair Williams's blog Frongoch internment camp in north Wales was used to hold Irish Republican prisoners from the 1916 Rising. A series of events were held at Frongoch on Junes 10th - 11th 2016 to ...
Mair Williams - Jun 15 2016 - 4:27pm - 0 comments
Eibhlin O'Neill's blog News from the Celtic League The Celtic League held a ... 26th March 2016. This year marks the centenary of The Easter Rising. This uprising was a pivotal moment in the struggle for Irish independence which began on Easter Monday 1916 with the reading of the proclamation, Poblacht na h-Eireann by Pádraig ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Apr 4 2016 - 10:32am - 0 comments
Alastair Kneale's blog Easter is a Christian festival and holiday commemorating the resurrection of ... from Aramaic פסחא (Paskha). Historically, Aramaic was the language of the Arameans, a Semitic-speaking people of the region ...
Alastair Kneale - Apr 7 2020 - 5:15pm
Emmett McIntyre's blog Based on a blog posting of Septemebr 17, 2016: I ... Colonel Dorcha Lee A thought provoking and perhaps seminal article on the future of the Irish and Scottish nations is the subject ... Ireland in the years ahead: " It is clear that, in the event of the UK breaking apart, the Northern Irish unionists will need time and ...
Emmett McIntyre - Apr 4 2017 - 2:43am
Emmett McIntyre's blog In the first decades of the 1700s, Edward Lhwyd a brilliant Welsh linguist (who was also a botanist, geologist and antiquarian) came to understand the ... Edward Llwyd, in fostering the Pan Celtic movement through seminal work on the linkage of the modern Celtic languages. Written by ...
Emmett McIntyre - Mar 16 2020 - 4:23pm
... century, but arguably its greatest claim to fame is the seminal Battle of Clontarf in 1014. A bloody and vicious affair, the ... played by Vikings from the Isle of Man in the battle, which was said to have claimed thousands of lives, or the singular link to the death ...
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Valerie Caine's blog Currently teaching at Harvard University, internationally ... to present a sell out talk about his life and work. His seminal work The Isle of Man: A Book About the Manx, published in 1980, captured a view of Manx life which was soon to disappear, focusing on a rural community through the lens of a ...
Valerie Caine - Jul 24 2016 - 12:07pm - 0 comments