The roots of the Christmas traditions that we recognize today can be traced back to pre-Christian celebrations of the Winter solstice. The solstice is the twice yearly event when the sun ... Gaelic) Nollaig Shona Dhuit agus Bliain Nua Fe Mhaise (Irish Gaelic) Nedeleg Laouen na Bloavezh Mat (Breton) Nadolig Llawen ...
Alastair Kneale - Jan 14 2018 - 4:37pm - 0 comments
... blog The small Scottish Hebridean island of Sanday (Scottish Gaelic: Sandaigh) is to get its first road. When built it ... the island was thought to have been associated with the the Irish missionary Columba when he first sailed to Iona. At Keill two large ...
Douglas MacQueen - Nov 3 2017 - 2:13pm
... myths, legends, traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of the Isle of Man (Mannin) have been passed from generation to generation, ... (Manx: Mannin) and the Calf of Man (Manx: Yn Cholloo) in the Irish Sea. The Calf of Man is a 618-acre island, off the southwest coast of the ...
Alastair Kneale - Dec 19 2020 - 12:43pm
Emmett McIntyre's blog In February of last year Transceltic reported on the significance of action taken by Welsh ... (Welsh, Breton and Cornish) versus that of the Goidelic (Irish, Scottish and Manx). Given the breathtaking strides of the Welsh ...
Emmett McIntyre - Nov 17 2015 - 4:38pm - 0 comments
... League Mannin by Allen Moore draws attention to the blight of plastic pollution on the worlds oceans and the urgent need for a world ... but there is always more out there in our fairly shallow Irish Sea. While there is rubbish out in the sea and nothing to stop people ...
Alastair Kneale - Dec 10 2017 - 2:02pm
... News from Kernow Matters To Us: Some members of Kernow Matters To Us (KMTU) spent a very pleasant time in Tresillian ... moored there. The dispatches contained details of a sizeable Irish army due to sail in support of the Royalist cause. Gauging his audience ...
Mair Williams - May 8 2016 - 6:53am - 0 comments
... by the Celtic League over the environmental impact etc of look-out towers used by the British military in South Armagh, the campaign ... to move on. It’s hard for us just 45 miles from the Irish coast to realise what ‘The Troubles’ meant but for people just ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Feb 14 2016 - 12:45pm - 0 comments
... To Us: In its ongoing campaign to call the proposals of the Boundary Commission to account wherein a cross-border constituency ... the UK’s other Celtic people, the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish.” This landmark recognition came after many years of campaigning ...
Mair Williams - Sep 21 2016 - 12:06pm - 0 comments
Emmett McIntyre's blog The Ulster City of Derry (Doire) host's a massive Halloween party from 26 October through 3 ... feast of kala Goanv (Breton), Calan Gwaf (Cornish), Samhain (Irish), Sauin (Manx Gaelic), Samhuinn (Scottish Gaelic) and Calan Gaeaf ...
Emmett McIntyre - Oct 27 2018 - 11:12pm
... for our Nation and our team) - FaceBook Page of Welsh Football Fans For Independence Hundreds of football fans took to ... leave the EU that demands for Scottish independence and “Irish Unity” will lead to the breakup of the United Kingdom. “With Brexit ...
Emmett McIntyre - Apr 4 2019 - 8:27pm