"Iain MacGiolla-odhar" <ian@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> REPOST FOR OUR BROTHERS:
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> TWO CELTIC PEOPLES, TWO SISTER SOULS: BRITTANY AND WALES
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> alliance federaliste bretonne wrote:
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>> TWO CELTIC PEOPLES, TWO SISTER SOULS: BRITTANY AND WALES
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>> As Welsh rugbymen
id est, Poofdahs who cannot play Rugby League
are staying in Saint Nazaire, it's worth recalling the
>> links between the people of Wales and Brittany, their Celtic origins,
>> their history and their language once common.
>> Welsh, Breton and Cornic are the outputs of a language dating from the
>> beginning of the Middle Ages, a time when the Celtic sea was a link
>> between the coastal regions.
>> From the third to the sixth century, successive waves brought to
>> Armorique whole populations from Devon, Wales and Cornwall, who created
>> a great many “plou” in Brittany.
>> In Guérande country ( Bro Gwenrann ) 80% of the names of places have
>> Breton origins ( from the Breton language )
>> The kingdom and then the duchy of Brittany, just like the principality
>> of Wales, were independent up to the XVI th century when, conquered by
>> France or England, they endured the rivalries between those countries.
>> But, together with the cultural revivals and the interceltic
>> developments, links were renewed in the XIX th century with the
>> industrial revolution. And the coal from Cardiff brought the successful
>> development of the ironworks in Trignac. The French state, though,
>> through its protectionism, put an end to that traffic.
>> May we hope that the coming of our Welsh brothers and the events it
>> created will make it possible to foresee interceltic rugby
>> competitions, and why not contests betweeen a Brittany Rugby Team and
>> teams of other Celtic nations ?
>>
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>> Saint Nazaire has had a long rugby tradition. The “S****ting Nazairien “
>> was created in 1909 and the “Rugby Club Trignacais” in 1912. The links
>> with Wales developed along with the traffic between the ****ts of
Cardiff
>> and St Nazaire from 1870 to 1930. The iron works in Trignac (1879-1932)
>> worked with Welsh coal uniquely, and even had concessions in some Welsh
>> mines. On the ****t of St Nazaire, there were also 4 companies for the
>> conditioning of “Welsh coal “. Sup****ted by the CREDIB, the town of
>> Trignac will show in September an exhibition “ From Cardiff to Trignac
“
>> that will recall all this past history in common between the south of
>> Wales and the south of Brittany.
>>
>> CREDIB SANT-NAZER BREIZH BRITTANY LLYDAW
>>
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