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Celtic League Archive
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Celtic League Archive

  • GB 0210 CELTLG
  • Fonds
  • 1961-2000

Records of the Celtic League, including minutes of Annual General Meetings and branch meetings and other administrative and financial documents, correspondence, tracts, press releases, petitions, articles for Carn magazine, notes and press cuttings relating to the aims of the League, its policies, campaigns and administration, and also to general matters concerning Celtic countries and cultures, linguistic minorities, and political movements and ideas, as well as the compilation, publication and distribution of Carn magazine.

Celtic League

2002 Deposit

Papers relating to financial matters and other aspects of the administration of the Celtic League and of its Cornwall Branch, including correspondence, membership details, statements of accounts, circulars, leaflets and other printed material, together with additional political and educational material accumulated by Roy Green. They were accumulated by Roy Green as Treasurer of the Celtic League and as both Secretary and Treasurer of the Cornwall Branch (through which he acquired the papers of his successor as Treasurer, Peter Wills), and also in his capacity as a member of numerous Cornish cultural and political organisations and as a founding member and District Secretary of the Cornish branch of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Celtic League. Cornwall Branch.

Expenses

Invoices, bills, accounts, letters and notes concerning expenses claims submitted by the League's officers and branch delegates, notably the Treasurer, Roy Green, and the General Secretary, Bernard Moffatt.

Correspondence

Correspondence between Roy Green, retailers, and other members of the League, notably Merfyn Phillips, Secretary of the Wales Branch, concerning financial and other administrative matters, especially sales of Carn magazine, bank accounts, branch returns and the financial relationship between the branches and the League's central fund, together with related notes and a leaflet about the 1986 National Eisteddfod.

Correspondence concerning alleged far-Right infiltration

Correspondence between senior officers of the League relating to claims that members of the Cornwall Branch had connections with the National Front and the British National Party, the subsequent tensions between certain officials and branches of the League, the constitutional amendments which came about as a result, and other matters discussed at Annual General Meetings, together wiith copies of related press cuttings.

Accounts

Accounts kept by the Branch Treasurer, including reports and quarterly returns, with particular details concerning membership subscriptions and sales of merchandise, and also related notes and correspondence.

Pan-Celtic Committee papers

Papers relating to the work of the Pan-Celtic Committee of the Cornwall branch, which seeks to establish and maintain links with like-minded organisations and movements in all of the Celtic countries.

'Cornish and some other Celtic cultural movements'

Letters, agendas of meetings, notes, reports, postcards, circulars, newsletters, leaflets, forms, invoices, programmes, sheet music, song lyrics, statements, articles, press releases and press cuttings concerning numerous cultural movements, institutions, events and publications in Cornwall, including Cowethas an Yeth Kernewek, its journal An Gannas, Cowethas Flamank, Agan Tavas, Lowender Peran, Kelgh Keltek, Cowethas Ylow Kernewek, Dalleth, An Gresen Gernewek, Esethvos Kernow, Kesva an Tavas Kernewek, Keskerth Kernow, Kescusulyans Kernow, the Cornish Declaration Group, the Cornish Bureau for European Relations, and a Cornish language weekend, as well as cultural and political matters in Ireland, Brittany and Galicia including Breton prisoners, the Pan-Celtic festival, meetings of the Celtic Congress in Cornwall and Shetland,the Kerrier Celtic choir festival, the Lorient festival, Celtic films, and the Celtic languages, with particular reference to Roy Green's involvement in Cornish and Celtic culture and politics and his related contributions to journals and organisations including the Irish Democrat, Soviet Weekly, and the Murdoch House (Redruth) Workers' Educational Association and Labour History Group.

Central administration - correspondence and other papers

Correspondence, together with some tracts, petitions, press releases and cuttings, and administrative and financial documents, together with some minutes of Annual General Meetings and copies of minutes of branch meetings, 1962-1999. Correspondents include Clive Betts, Zonia Bowen, Noëlle Davies, Noel Dempsey, Per Denez, Peter Berresford Ellis, Gwynfor Evans, Julian Cayo Evans, Garret FitzGerald, Yann Fouere, Nick Griffin, Neven Henaff, Alan Heusaff, John Jenkins, John Legonna, Tomas Ó Canainn, Padraig Ó Snodaigh, Meic Stephens, Alan Stivell, Dafydd Elis Thomas, Dafydd Wigley and Jac L. Williams. The matters discussed include the aims of the League, its policies and campaigns, the Celtic countries and cultures, linguistic minorities, political movements and ideas, and the compilation, publication and distribution of Carn. There are also articles submitted for Carn, together with notes, as well as letters and petitions to governments and international bodies. In addition, there are copies, drafts and notes of letters written by Heusaff and Moffatt, and letters and other documents forwarded by branch secretaries relating to matters of particular concern.

1999 and 2001 Donations

Papers deriving mainly from the activities of Alan Heusaff as General Secretary and Secretary of the International branch, and also of Bernard Moffatt as Assistant General Secretary and General Secretary. They include: administrative and financial documents; correspondence, tracts and press releases relating to the aims of the League, its policies and campaigns, and also general matters concerning Celtic countries and cultures, linguistic minorities, and political movements and ideas; letters and petitions to governments and international bodies; correspondence relating to the compilation, publication and distribution of Carn, including articles for the magazine, with notes; copies, drafts and notes of letters written by Heusaff and Moffatt; press cuttings; letters and other documents forwarded by branch secretaries relating to matters of particular concern; minutes of Annual General Meetings; and some copies of minutes of branch meetings.

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