A unique Manx recording from 1974 emerges from an attic in the Netherlands

‘The Mona Douglas Manx Ceili’ is a very important recording of Manx music and song which has just been released online thanks to a Dutch visitor to the Island 45 years ago. The recordings were made in the home of Mona Douglas, one of the most important figures in the revival of Manx culture in the 20th Century. Culture Vannin have released the audio recordings to mark the anniversary of Mona Douglas’ birth on 18 September...

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Irish language library opens in east Belfast

The facility in the Skainos Centre on the Newtownards Road contains about 2,000 books. It has been opened due to the increasing number of people learning Irish at the centre. The Lord Mayor of Belfast, Sinn Féin's John Finucane, along with UUP and Progressive Unionist Party politicians, attended the opening of the library on Monday. The...

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BBC Gaeilge Irish language summer radio schedule

From new presenters to new music and analysing the big issues of the day, BBC Gaeilge is offering a diverse collection of Irish language programmes on BBC Radio Ulster last summer. From new presenters to new music and analysing the big issues of the day, BBC Gaeilge is offering a diverse collection of Irish language programmes on BBC Radio Ulster this summer. Starting on Monday 1 July at 7pm on BBC Radio Ulster, Fearghal...

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Gorsedh Kernow Cornish Language Board Presentation Ceremony

The Cornish Language Board Presentation Ceremony was held on 14th. September 2019. “Awards are being given to entries that express the Celtic spirit of Cornwall and demonstrate a deep understanding of Cornish culture,” said Grand Bard of Cornwall Elizabeth Carne, Melennek, “and as I only became Grand Bard last autumn I am really looking...

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Half a thousand people protest the Frenchification of Breton place-names

The Frenchification of Breton place-names was denounced by almost 600 people. Dozens of academics, musicians and writers as well as the Breton cultural movement mobilised on September 14th at Terrug/ Telgruc. The French post sistematically refuses the addresses written in its original, Breton, form. ...

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76 personalities Call to stop the denounce Frenchification of Breton place-names

On September 14th, at noon, a picnic event is organized on the beach of Traez-Beleg in Telgruc. 76 artists, writers, academics and other personalities from the Breton cultural world called on Kemper this morning to stop the Frenchization of toponymy in Brittany. The Breton toponymy is increasingly ignored by city councils, which are often...

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25 news schools to teach Breton Language

Of the total 17 new open sites they are in primary and 8 in the second degree. Of the first, a total of seventeen are on the public network. This expansion of the offer more than in the past is the result of a gradual institutionalization of the opening procedures: - creation of the OPLB (Public Office for the Breton Language) in 2010, -...

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New Bible translation released for Scots Gaelic speakers

New Bible resources have been produced for Scotland's Gaelic-speaking community, including an updated translation of the New Testament. The translation project spanned 10 years and brought together representatives from the Church of Scotland, the Free Church of Scotland and the Roman Catholic Church. New audio versions of the four...

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