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Everything about modern Celts. | Tradition AND modernity. | Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Scottish & Welsh cultures (and more). 🖤🤍🖤🇮🇪🇮🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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But where in the world is Carmen Flamingo?! 😱🦩
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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🚨 FOLÚNTAS: Post mar Fhoclóirí Cúnta le Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge (Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann).
🗓️ Spriocdháta: 19 Samhain 2025
🔗 Tuilleadh eolais: www.ria.ie/about/career...
www.ria.ie
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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There is a very beautiful song of Tri Yann about what it means to be Breton. We think it applies to all Celtic nations: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-AXf....
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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It's called "branding identity"... 🙄
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Stay safe, #ModernCelts!
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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The Scottish Christmas Book Fair is coming! Come one come all to the New Town Church on 21 and 22 November!

#bookweekscotland
publishingscotland.bsky.social Publishing Scotland @publishingscotland.bsky.social · 1d
Scottish Christmas Book Fair
George Street, Edinburgh
Fri 21 & Sat 22 Nov

* The perfect occasion for Christmas gift shopping

* All your favourite genres for adults & children

* Chat with Scotland’s indie publishers & meet their authors

www.publishingscotland.org/event/scotti...
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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There’s a lot of focus on Richard Burton today, but did you know that the actor and author Alistair MacLean were once involved in a punch-up at the Dorchester? (The Scot won). And that the two men are buried in the same graveyard in Switzerland? www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...
Alistair MacLean: Meet the Gaelic-speaking Highlander whose Arctic heroics fuelled his books
Alistair MacLean never had any pretensions about his literary talent even though many of his books became international blockbusters. As he said: "I don’t
www.pressandjournal.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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💥 Krouet e vo kanaouenn ofisiel ar Redadeg 2026 gant...
🎤Plouz & Foen
🌿 Nolwenn Korbell
➡️ Emgav a-benn nebeut evit selaou ar grouidigezh dibar-mañ!
💥 La chanson officielle de la Redadeg 2026 sera signée par…
🎤 Plouz & Foën
🌿 Nolwenn Korbell
➡️ Rendez-vous bientôt pour écouter cette création unique !
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Porthcurno from the coast path on the Porthcurno, Porthgwarra and Gwennap Head walk in the iWalk Cornwall app 🥾🥾

#walk #Cornwall
Porthcurno path view
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Goronwy Owen – who only wrote poetry in the traditional strict metres – achieved an astounding mastery of those complex Welsh forms ✍️Jerry Hunter wp.me/p8Mk4U-18CL
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Wales needs a step change: a national mission to build homes and communities that allow people to live with dignity, security, and hope ✍️Simon Hobson
Build bold to transform Wales
Simon Hobson, Co-founder of New Wales Wales is facing a housing crisis that touches almost every community. Rents and mortgages keep rising faster than wages. Too many people are stuck in unsuitable,…
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November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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iwalkcornwall.co.uk
Nanquidno Beach on the Sennen Cove to Nanquidno #walk 👣 (https://iwkc.co.uk/w/228)
Nanquidno beach 2
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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John Blackwell, widely known by his bardic name, Alun, was one of the great poets of his age. His celebrated poems in the free metres proved enormously popular and influential to the Welsh lyrical tradition ✍️ Adam Pearce
Alun: Mold’s Other Famous Son
Adam Pearce, Editor, Llyfrau Melin Bapur Who is the most famous name in Welsh literature associated with the town of Yr Wyddgrug (Mold) in Flintshire? Undoubtedly Daniel Owen (1836-1896), the premier ...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Why did the Irish Constitution not recognise our third language?
Why did the Irish Constitution not recognise our third language?
You can’t go anywhere in Ireland – Gaeltacht or ‘Galltacht’ – without hearing it spoken
www.irishtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Prochain embarquement pour le spectacle « ENEZ » dimanche 7 décembre à 17 h au Palais des Congrès à Pontivy 🤩
Pour info : la soirée du 15/11 à La Passerelle à Cordemais est « full » depuis 3 semaines… Alors dépêchez-vous de prendre vos billets !
Billetterie : www.billetweb.fr/gwennyn-enez...
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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'Unrivalled' Cornish beach among the '11 very best beaches worldwide you need to see'

#Cornwall #Kernow

🔗: https://www.falmouthpacket.co...
'Unrivalled' Cornish beach among the '11 very best beaches worldwide you need to see'
A beach in Cornwall has been crowned among the '11 very best beaches worldwide you need to see' at least once.
www.falmouthpacket.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Cornwall Innovation welcomes new business development manager

#Cornwall #Kernow

🔗: https://www.falmouthpacket.co...
Cornwall Innovation welcomes new business development manager
Catherine Allinson has taken on the role to help drive growth and engagement across its network of centres in Pool, Tremough, and Truro.
www.falmouthpacket.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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iwalkcornwall.co.uk
Coastline near Nanquidno on the Porth Nanven to Nanquidno #walk 👣 (https://iwkc.co.uk/w/351)
Nanquidno coast
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for November 2025 is Maynooth, @mulibrary.bsky.social MS C110, containing an Irish translation of Arnaldus de Villanova’s Speculum medicinae completed in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork on 15 May 1414:

leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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nation.cymru
I for one don’t feel I live in a ‘border county’ with more shared heritage with someone in Shropshire or Herefordshire – indeed, in my vision of one Wales, my affinity lies with every county and person in Wales ✍️Stephen Price
Welsh Marches: A colonial term Wales should rethink embracing
Stephen Price In news this week, Powys County Council is helping to lead a major cross-border initiative to boost tourism across “the Marches”, as part of a new strategy aimed at revitalising the…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Yeah! 😍 We love the idea of Breton fishing nets preventing Ruscist drones from killing people on Ukrainian roads. Don't you, #ModernCelts? 🇺🇦😉 #breizh #madeebreizh #slavaukraini
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Old horsehair fishing nets from Brittany, once used to catch monkfish, are now shielding Ukraine’s frontlines from Russian drones. 280km of repurposed netting, sent by Kernic Solidarités, is being stretched across trenches and roads, forming traps that snare drones like flies in a web.
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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nation.cymru
Hot on the heels of the new Wales home kit going on sale, details of the Cymru away shirt have leaked online - and there's great news for fans of a particular adidas logo
Wales away kit details are leaked online
Hot on the heels of the new Wales home kit going on sale, details of the Cymru away shirt have leaked online – and there’s great new for fans of the adidas trefoil. According to leading football kits…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM