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This is a article with a string of different purposes. I use it to store links for subjects and also as a main editing space for big article projects. My major project is the celtic revival and celtic languages. I accumalate sources little projects regarding punk/metal music and British Politics.

=Celtic Sources= The information about the modern developmetns in celtic revival, current status and changes are spread randomly. From this page, pages about each language, to long pages about certain movements. Could some smaller pages be merged? Could this article be changed? (Useful: List of Celtic festivals; )

Early history, decline and rebellion (16th - early 18th century)
The inclusion of an English-language prayer book by Edward VI during The Reformation was met with fierce opposition in Cornwall, where English at this time was not the dominant language. In response, the “Prayerbook rebellion” was initiated and John Tregear translated 13 catholic homilies into Cornish in the mid-16th-century, albeit with linguistic gaps filled with English with the ambition of correcting. However, the “Prayerbook rebellion” was squelched with the death of three to four thousand West Country men, the language started its retreat to the south-west of the peninsula.

Antiquarian researches into the Gaelic and Brittonic cultures and histories of Britain and Ireland gathered pace from the late 17th century, with people like Owen Jones in Wales and Charles O'Conor in Ireland. The key surviving manuscript sources were gradually located, edited and translated, monuments identified and published, and other essential groundwork in recording stories, music and language done.

The Welsh antiquarian and author Iolo Morganwg fed the growing fascination in all things Brittonic by founding the Gorsedd, which (along with his writings) would in turn spark the Neo-druidism movement.

The Initial Celtic Revival (18th - 19th century)
During the early 1700s, after widespread decline of the language, only 500 Cornish speakers remained in the peninsular. It was originally theorised that when the last native speak of Cornish, Dorothy Pentreath died in 1777 the language had ceased in use. However evidence has suggested the language remained in use on a colloquial level by Cornish diaspora and farmers and fisherman in the region. In the mid-18th century after the decline of the languages due to political repression from the British state the culture was slowly being reviewed instead on the labelling of a unified concept of the Celt within artistic forms.

Interest in Scottish Gaelic culture greatly increased during the onset of the Romantic period in the late 18th century, with James Macpherson's Ossian achieving international fame, along with the novels of Sir Walter Scott and the poetry and song lyrics of the London-based Irishman Thomas Moore, Byron's friend and executor. Throughout Europe, the Romantic movement inspired a great revival of interest in folklore, folk tales, and folk music; even Beethoven was commissioned to produce a set of arrangements of Scottish folk-songs. As elsewhere, in what was then the United Kingdom of the whole archipelago, this encouraged and fed off a rise in nationalism, which was especially intense in Ireland.

In the mid-19th century the revival continued, with Sir Samuel Ferguson, the Young Ireland movement, and others popularising folk tales, dubious works of history, and other material in all the nations with a claim to be 'Celtic'. At the same time, archaeological and historical work was beginning to make progress in constructing a better understanding of regional history. Interest in ornamental 'Celtic' art developed, and 'Celtic' motifs began to be used in all sorts of contexts, including architecture, drawing on works like the Grammar of Ornament by (another) Owen Jones. Imitations of the ornate Insular penannular brooches of the 7–9th centuries were worn by Queen Victoria among others from the late 1840s, many produced in Dublin by West & Son and other makers.

In Scotland were John Francis Campbell's (1821-1885) works the bilingual Popular Tales of the West Highlands (4 vols., 1860–62) and The Celtic Dragon Myth, published posthumously in 1911. The formation of the Edinburgh Social Union in 1885, which included a number of significant figures in the Arts and Craft and Aesthetic movements, became part of an attempt to facilitate a 'Celtic' Revival in Scotland, similar to that taking place in contemporaneous Ireland, drawing on ancient myths and history to produce art in a modern idiom. Key figures were the philosopher, sociologist, town planner and writer Patrick Geddes (1854–1932), the architect and designer Robert Lorimer (1864–1929) and stained-glass artist Douglas Strachan (1875–1950). Geddes established an informal college of tenement flats for artists at Ramsay Garden on Castle Hill in Edinburgh in the 1890s. Among the figures involved with the movement were Anna Traquair (1852–1936), who was commissioned by the Union to paint murals in the Mortuary Chapel of the Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh (1885–86 and 1896–98) and also worked in metal, illumination, illustration, embroidery and book binding. The most significant exponent of the artistic revival in Scotland was Dundee-born John Duncan (1866–1945). Among his most influential works are his paintings of Celtic subjects Tristan and Iseult (1912) and St Bride (1913). Duncan also helped to make Dundee a major centre for the Celtic Revival movement along with artists such as Stewart Carmichael and the publisher Malcolm C MacLeod.

The Irish Literary Revival encouraged the creation of works written in the spirit of Irish culture, as distinct from English culture. This was, in part, due to the political need for an individual Irish identity. This difference was kept alive by invoking Ireland's historic past, its myths, legends and folklore. There was an attempt to re-vitalize the native rhythm and music of Irish Gaelic. Figures such as Lady Gregory, W. B. Yeats, George Russell, J .M. Synge and Seán O'Casey wrote many plays and articles about the political state of Ireland at the time. Gaelic revival and Irish nationalism frequently overlapped in places such as An Stad, a tobacconist on North Frederick Street owned by the writer Cathal McGarvey and frequented by literary figures such as James Joyce (although Joyce was thoroughly contemptuous of the movement, feeling it betrayed the realities of urban Ireland) and Yeats, along with leaders of the Nationalist movement such as Douglas Hyde, Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins. These were connected with another great symbol of the literary revival, The Abbey Theatre, which served as the stage for many new Irish writers and playwrights of the time.

In 1892, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy said, "'A group of young men, among the most generous and disinterested in our annals, were busy digging up the buried relics of our history, to enlighten the present by a knowledge of the past, setting up on their pedestals anew the overthrown statues of Irish worthies, assailing wrongs which under long impunity had become unquestioned and even venerable, and warming as with strong wine the heart of the people, by songs of valour and hope; and happily not standing isolated in their pious work, but encouraged and sustained by just such an army of students and sympathizers as I see here to-day'."

In 1896 the Argentine government, after 30 years of the Welsh colony in Argentina, imposed that schools in the Chubut area of Patagonia change the educational language from Welsh to Spanish. This additionally lead to a demonization of the language.

Interlace, (a.k.a. Entrelac) which is still seen as a "Celtic" form of decoration—somewhat ignoring its Germanic origins and equally prominent place in Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian medieval art—has remained a motif in many forms of popular design, especially in Celtic countries and above all Ireland, where it remains a national style signature. In recent decades, it had a re-revival in 1960s designs (for example, in the Biba logo) and has been used worldwide in tattoos and in various contexts and media in fantasy works with a quasi-Dark Ages setting. The Secret of Kells is an animated feature film of 2009 set during the creation of the Book of Kells which makes much use of Insular design.

In France, sublime descriptions of Celtic landscape were found in the works of Jacques Cambry. The Celtic Revival was strengthened by Napoleon's idea that the "French were a race of empire-building Celts," and became institutionalized by the foundation of the Académie Celtique in 1805, by Cambry and others.

Revival in the modern era (20th – 21st century)
An increased interest in the Cornish language, started by Henry Jenner and Robert Morton Nance in 1904, saw a revival of Cornish culture and language in Cornwall. This included the publishing of a handbook of the language. The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies was formed in 1924 to "maintain the Celtic spirit of Cornwall", followed by the Gorseth Kernow in 1928 and the formation of the Cornish political party Mebyon Kernow in 1951. This revival has spread across the Irish sea towards Northern England, with the attempted reconstructions of numerous types of bagpipe (such as the Lancashire Great-pipe) and an increased interest in the Northumbrian smallpipes. There are also attempts to reconstruct the Cumbric language, the ancient Brythonic language of Northern (particularly Northwestern) England, a remnant of the Brittonic kingdoms of Hen Ogledd.

The Celtic Revival has been an international movement. The Irish-American designer Thomas Augustus "Gus" O'Shaughnessy made a conscious choice to use Irish design roots as well as Art Nouveau influences in his artwork. Trained in stained glass and working in an Art Nouveau style, O'Shaughnessy designed a series of windows and interior stencils for Old Saint Patrick's Church in Chicago, a project begun in 1912 and completed in 1922. Louis Sullivan, a Chicago architect, incorporated dense Art Nouveau and 'Celtic'-inspired interlace in the ornament of his buildings. Sullivan's father was a traditional Irish musician and they both were step-dancers, which suggests that his creativity was not rooted only in his official education. In England, the Watts Mortuary Chapel (1896–98) in Surrey was a thoroughgoing attempt to decorate a Romanesque Revival chapel framework with lavish Celtic reliefs designed by Mary Fraser Tytler.

The "plastic style" of early 'Celtic' art was one of the elements feeding into Art Nouveau decorative style, very consciously so in the work of designers like the Manxman Archibald Knox, who did much work for Liberty & Co., especially for the Tudric and Cymric ranges of metalwork, respectively in pewter and silver or gold (production of these peaked from 1900-1905). Many of the most extravagant examples of the plastic style come from the modern Czech Lands and influenced the Czech Art Nouveau designer and artist Alphonse Mucha (Mucha, in turn, influenced the Irish-American O'Shaughnessy, who had attended a series of Mucha's lectures in Chicago).

Celebration of 100 years of Welsh culture in Chubut in 1965 saw a change in government policy in the Argentine government over the language's treatment, which has led to gradual revival.

Due to the revival of Irish in educational settings since the 1970s, the immersion of Irish in university degrees at institutions like Dublin City University and bilingual upbringing, there has been an increase in young Irish people speaking the language under the Republic of Ireland. It is said it is more common to hear it spoken in Irish cities. Additionally, there is a "mini" revived interest in United States of America and Australia in learning Irish. Language exchange programs between Ireland and The United States of America, such as the Fulbright Commission, have amplified their movement of Irish teachers to American schools and community organisations across the 21st century. With a third of learners doing it for heritage reasons. However criticism has been drawn on the Irish language policy because after 90 years of Irish language education the 2016 Irish census shows 70% of the country cannot or do not speak the language. In September 2014 language learning application Duolingo introduced an Irish learning course. After one year of being available it had gained 1 million learners. This was noted as a significant figure as it was seven times the number of recorded native Irish speakers at the time. After two years it had gone up to 2.3 million users, only a quarter of which lived in Ireland. Additionally in Northern Ireland, the incorporation of more Irish language support, particularly that in Belfast, has increased. Projects for developing the language in Belfast include programs to send young people to immerse in the language in County Donegal and Irish-language community centres.

The Irish language received full state support with the Official Languages Act of 2003 in Ireland. The Scottish government ratified the Gaelic Language Act in 2005, advocating councils with historic connection to the Gaelic language to publish reports on how to further incorporate the language. In 2007 the Celtic languages alongside several minority languages received working status within the European Union (EU). This change prompted two Galician MEPs that year to speak in the European Parliament in Brussels in Galician as a statement against the banning of Galician and other languages other than Spanish being spoken in Spanish Parliament. In 2010, Scotland's at the time education minister Michael Russell spoke at an EU hearing in Sottish Gaelic, the first in the union's history.

In 2008, the “Standard Written Form” of Cornish was made from a compromise of the two leading Cornish language forms. This was seen as the start towards the establishment of Cornish in an educational setting. There was believed to be 2,000 Cornish-language speakers in the region at this time. In 2017 a new seven day festival centred around Cornish language, history and culture, The Kernewek Festival, started in Penzance.

Galicia also started to experience a Celtic revival during the 20th century. Prominent Galician musicians include Carlos Núñez, Luar na Lubre and Susana Seivane. Neighboring northern Portugal is also undergoing a form of Celtic revival.

By 2017 it was record that over 20% of Welsh children were in Welsh-language immersion schools. The Welsh devolved government in 2016 announced they wished to increase the number of Welsh speakers to 1 million and the number of children in Welsh-language immersion schools to over 40% by 2050, this was a response to the notable drop in Welsh speakers between the 2001 census numbers of 582,000, to the 2011 level of 562,000. It is believed that 49% of Scottish Gaelic speakers in the 2010s are residing within Highlands, the Western isles and Glasgow City.

A dialect of Welsh, Patagonian Welsh, is currently established by 5,000 native speakers in the Chubut province of Argentina and in recent years has seen further support through bilingual teaching of Spanish and Welsh in the area As well as multilingual road signs in Welsh, Spanish, and Mapuche. The settlements of Trevelin, Esquel, Trelew, Gaiman and Puerto Madryn are where the language revival is concentrated to and in 2016 peaked at with having over 1,200 students in 2016. In 2015, the Welsh-speaking communities in both Wales and Chubut celebrated 150 of establishment of the Welsh colony, or Y Wladfa.

Scottish traditions were brought to Nova Scotia Canada with immigrants, and continue in Gaelic-speaking communities there, with Cape Breton Island in the province being the most concentrated area of traditional music and language preservation. In July 2017 a conference was held in The Gaelic College on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, with delegates from the three Gaelic languages (Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic) as well as government representatives and other interested parties from the Maritimes to develop a more refined Celtic preservation program.

Reasons for decline
Decline of the Celtic languages has been associated with various reasons. The lack of translated religious literature and liturgy at a time of religious playing a significant part in identity has been noted. On a political level, the Celtic languages had been repressed by the British state for centuries in favour of English- they were banned from use in schools. The languages and those that spoke them were stereotyped by the gentry during their decline; Cornish, for instance, was seen as being one of poverty. Under the reign of James I of England a language act required Highland lords to send sons to the Lowlands to learn English, downplaying the value of Gaelic amongst the upper classes.

Cultural grouping and homogeneity
In the modern day, the common view amongst anthropologists was that the name Celt wasn't a legitimate historical name as neither the tribes of Britain or Ireland identified with the name, nor did the Greek or Roman writers as they had never referred to the indigenous inhabitants of Britain or Ireland as such. Additionally, the unified notion of a Celtic culture has received criticism and debate, rather "many individual tribes with highly localised behaviours". The term was "externally imposed" during the 18th century. Scholars like Simon James argue the self-identification of Modern Celts is based on the social shift in emphasis from religion to ethnicity during the 18th century. But support is given to the notion of the modern Celt as they are seen as self-identifying and accepting of their differences and histories with each other. Celtic art as movement is seen to be as imposed in name and style as the identity itself.

Political motivation
Some have seen the revival of Celtic identity and culture as a threat to English hegemony within the British state. Additionally others have perceived Celtic revival in the modern era as part of an anti-British sentiment from civic nationalist parties across the UK. Other criticism has been focused more on the adoption of the political movement to promote Celtic culture in itself, spreading Celtic language to areas where it historically had never been spoken. An example is the use of Scottish Gaelic in parUlster Scotsts of Scotland for signs where the language had no historic use, and the Gaelic counterparts are in fact translations of the English. Eliot Wilson when writing for The Scotsman was cynical of its application as a vanity project of the Scottish National Party.

Across both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Irish nationalist political party Sinn Féin has been accused of utilising Irish as "an ideological weapon for nationalism". Brian MacLochlainn commented how Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party utilise Irish and Ulster Scots as devices of "political football". Professor and Writer John Wilson Foster notes how the language and politics of Sinn Féin has been intricately welded.

Effective language revival
In the 2016 census it was shown that 70% of Ireland do not or cannot speak in Irish, despite 90 years of compulsory language teaching. In the Republic of Ireland, Brian MacLochlainn writing for The Belfast Telegraph pointed out that "revision of the spelling has rendered at least two generations illiterate in the greater part of the literature written by native speakers before about 1969 [...] Presidents and Prime Ministers now attend Irish classes. Modern media and newspaper Irish is woeful, being mainly a calque on English."

In the 1990s a dramatic shift in the cultural attitudes towards Gaelic in Scotland began- where older generations didn't find Celtic languages as useful to learn the younger generation has shifted to see their cultural benefit. Funding of educational institutions that offer courses in language immersion and Celtic culture as a whole have increased in the 21st century and is seen as the most important effort by some to reviving and maintaining the language. Between 2012-2017 the number of Irish and Scottish Gaelic-language immersion schools in the United Kingdom have increased by 33%. The incorporation of immersion education institutions in Scotland has proved greatly successful in reviving the Gaelic. Cultural engagement and heritage has had a positive effect on the renewing interest in languages. Examples of this include the renewing of Scottish Gaelic in Nova Scotia, and the Welsh diaspora of Argentina, In which 50,000 people in the 2010s claim Welsh heritage.

The economic benefits have been highlighted in that the requirement of translators and teachers in education and government programs generates jobs.

Math Rock

 * https://www.thoughtco.com/top-math-rock-albums-94496
 * https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/changing-rules-rhythm-have-you-heard-math-rock-35676
 * http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/3205162-math-rock-family-tree--exploring-the-roots-of-foals

Abandoned By Bears

 * News
 * http://rockfreaks.net/news/20336
 * https://www.rocksound.tv/features/read/this-abandoned-by-bears-song-is-peak-easycore
 * http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/abandoned_by_bears_release_awesome_new_video_and_other_news_you_might_have
 * http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/swedish_easycore_act_abandoned_by_bears_new_track_is_a_party_exclusive
 * I Want You Back cover ,


 * If Nothing Goes Right Go Left review
 * http://www.killyourstereo.com/reviews/1024885/abandoned-by-bears-when-nothing-goes-right-go-left
 * https://killthemusic.net/blog/review-abandoned-by-bears-when-nothing-goes-right-go-left
 * http://rockfreaks.net/albums/6755


 * The Years Ahead Review
 * http://www.deadpress.co.uk/63441/album-abandoned-by-bears-the-years-ahead


 * Interviews/general info
 * http://www.allmusic.com/artist/abandoned-by-bears-mn0003498006/biography
 * https://apocalypticdemise.com/2017/03/21/interview-abandoned-by-bears/

Funeral For A Friend

 * Publication Tags
 * http://vulturehound.co.uk/tag/funeral-for-a-friend/


 * Stuff
 * http://www.mtv.com/news/1504448/funeral-for-a-friend-singer-beaten-by-hungarians-in-video/
 * http://birminghampromoters.com/2015/01/05/funeral-for-a-friend-to-play-the-institute-birmingham/
 * https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/tracks/track-reviews-15-21-october-2012
 * http://vulturehound.co.uk/2017/04/6-records-that-changed-our-lives-blood-youth/
 * Live Reviews: 2002, 2014, 2015, 2016 2016 (1)


 * Between Order and Model // Seven Ways to Scream Your Name
 * http://drownedinsound.com/releases/5624
 * http://drownedinsound.com/news/6570-funeral-for-a-friend--tour-ep-news


 * Casually Dressed
 * http://drownedinsound.com/releases/3457/reviews/8001
 * http://drownedinsound.com/releases/6128/reviews/8910-


 * Hours
 * http://drownedinsound.com/releases/6570/reviews/12205-


 * Tales Don't Tell Themselves
 * http://www.kerrang.com/features/albums-broke-bands-careers-nfg-discharge/


 * Memory and Humanity
 * http://drownedinsound.com/news/3577133-funeral-for-a-friend--headline-dates-confirmed-for-autumn-winter
 * https://www.allmusic.com/album/memory-humanity-mw0000800325
 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/funeral-for-a-friend/pages/memory_humanity.shtml
 * https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/funeral-for-a-friend-memory-and-humanity


 * Welcome Home Armageddon
 * http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16048/reviews/4142217


 * Chapter and Verse
 * http://drownedinsound.com/releases/18588/reviews/4148617


 * Break Up and Review
 * http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-02-12/the-12-best-funeral-for-a-friend-songs (Written by Matthew Davies-Kreye)
 * http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/funeral-for-a-friend-break-up/

Smaller Band Projects

 * Rolo Tomassi (GU review Indie review DORK interview)

=Politics=

2024 Locals

 * North East 2022 Outlines ( & ) Leamside train line re-opening
 * 2024 London mayor election
 * Feb'22 CressDick resignation & replacement

Momentum (organisation)

 * Journals: A

The People's Assembly Against Austerity

 * Journals: A, B

The World Transformed

 * Blegh

=Transport networks in the UK=

British Isles fixed sea link connections
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/underwater-tunnel-linking-wales-and-ireland-proposed-by-think-tank-9856556.html https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/tunnel-vision-a-plot-to-link-ireland-and-britain-ran-deep-1.2775567 http://www.scotsman.com/business/companies/could-a-bridge-or-tunnel-one-day-link-scotland-with-ireland-1-4130353

Glasgow

 * http://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/how-glasgows-subway-could-50-13925073
 * http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/15666655.ANALYSIS__End_of_the_line__Glasgow_Airport_may_still_get_its_surface_link/#comments-anchor

Bristol
MetroWest (Bristol) (Portishead Railway, Portishead, Somerset, Bath Spa railway station)
 * - Henbury loop closing
 * , - Cutting Portishead
 * expanding scope?

=References=