New World Celts

"We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished."
Eamon de Valera

" Think - what have I got for Ireland? Something which she has wanted these past 700 years! I tell you this -early this morning I signed my own death warrant. I though at the time how odd, how ridiculous -a bullet might just as well have done the job 5 years ago." - Michael Collins in a letter to John O'Kane after the Treaty.

G. K. Chesterton
"For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry
And all their songs are sad."

Jacksonville and Zephyrhills Games

Officers of the NWC at Closing and Opening Ceremonies at Z-hills, Fl Games

Relaxing after the Games are Chapters Brandon, Orlando, Dunedin, St Pete, I'ntl and Rovers of the NWC

Reminder to not forget Asturias!!!

To support all Celtic cultural non-political, non-religious, non-racist organizations that espouse the same high ideals as ours, regardless of whether they are Scot, Irish, Galician, Manx, Welsh, Breton, or Cornish.

Dear Mr Dunlap,

I have heard of the New World Celts for many years, and encountered several of your members in my travels over the las 16 years as a festival vendor and a storefront owner.

I was perusing the NWC website and noticed an omission? in the Mission Statement.

More to my point, on the north coast of Spain is the province of Asturias, the 8th Celtic Nation. Most people just lump it together with Galicia (kinda like clumping Wales together with Cornwall). 2 different mountain ranges, 2 different indigenous languages, but 2 different Celtic roots. Galicia benefited more from good PR during the "Celtic revival', and as a result Asturias wasn't included in the conventional delineation. I do however see the shield of Asturias on your list of Old World Celtic regions.

Asturias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

History

Asturias has been occupied by humans since the Lower Paleolithic era, and during the Upper Paleolithic was characterized by cave paintings in the eastern part of the area. In the Mesolithic period, a native culture developed, that of the Asturiense, and later, with the introduction of the Bronze Age, megaliths and tumuli were constructed. In the Iron Age, the territory came under the cultural influence of the Celts; the local Celtic peoples, known as the Astures, were composed of tribes such as the Luggones, the Pesicos, and others, who populated the entire area with castros (fortified hill-towns). Today the Astur Celtic influence persists in place names, such as those of rivers and mountains.

Site Officiel du Festival Interceltique de Lorient

Asturias

Autonomous principality in northwest of Spain, with an seaboard of 320 km between Galicia and the Cantabrian Cordillera, Asturias have a little more than a million inhabitants. Country of green mountains, it seems wrought from "almost mystical fury of the Cantabrian Sea and the magic serenity of its montages. His famous European peaks rising to 2600 meters
The home of pre-Roman Asturian classified "heritage of mankind (humanity)", Oviedo is the capital of the principality. It is being transformed after a long period of industrial mining. Gijon, with an open port, is the most inhabited city.
The Asturian, Roman language, is known by 60% and spoken by 30% of the population. For almost thirty-five years a strong movement was developed for appropiation the language. The Asturian has its place in media and some 30 000 people are studying.

A documentation centre of traditional music is now in place at the Museum of the People of Asturias.

Brenga Astur

I could paste some of their in-depth description of their home country, but instead:

Brenga Astur pipers Fernando Montes, myself, and Pindy Diaz at an Irish pub in Oviedo, Asturias

I don't presume to know too much about Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, Cornwall, and Brittany, but I did live in Dublin for 4 years. I don't know everything about Spain, but I do know some as I have family currently living in both Madrid and A Coruna, Galicia.

José Sáinz Nothnagel < my dad. I saw on your bio that you are "an avid history buff" and thought you might find this of interest.

Nobody in the US is really championing Asturias to counter the seemingly indelible mark the band 7 Nations has left on the American perception. I do appreciate, however, what you are doing to further the Celtic knowledge via NWC.

With respect,

Rick Sainz

Thanks, Rick!!!