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, California-based print and electronic publication, serving Celtic communities and their descendants around the world. ''Celtic Family Magazine'' published special features and articles on art, history, culture, entertainment, and lifestyle. ''Celtic Family Magazine'' was produced by A Raven Above Press and was distributed throughout North America and select areas of the United Kingdom.
It was announced through social media that after four years of publication ''Celtic Family Magazine'' would be going on hiatus starting in 2017.
Featured Interviews
Interviews with notable Celts in various fields, and conducted by the editors of ''Celtic Family Magazine'' included:
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Bagad Kemper
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Barrule
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Johanna Basford
Johanna Basford (born 1983) is a Scottish illustrator. Her illustrations are hand-drawn, predominantly in black and white, with pencils and pens. Basford's works can be found in products such as colouring books, wallpaper, beer labels and even ...
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Chris Connelly
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Cathy Davey
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Diana Gabaldon
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Meinir Gwilym
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Shani Rhys James
Shani Rhys James MBE (born 1953)BBC Wales ArtShani Rhys James last updated 28 September 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2011. is a Welsh painter based in Llangadfan, Powys. She has been described as "arguably one of the most exciting and successful p ...
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Ruarri Joseph
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Ruth Keggin
Ruth Keggin is a Manx Gaelic singer-songwriter. She holds degrees from the University of York and the University of Cambridge.
Career
In 2011, as a member of ''Nish As Rish'', Keggin won in the Best Newcomers category at the 2011 Festival Interc ...
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Eimear McBride
Eimear McBride (born 16 April 1976) is an Irish novelist, whose debut novel, ''A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing'', won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize in 2013 and the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
Published works
McBride wrote ''A Girl Is ...
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Paddy Moloney
Paddy Moloney ( ga, Pádraig Ó Maoldomhnaigh; 1 August 1938 – 12 October 2021) was an Irish musician, composer, and record producer. He co-founded and led the Irish musical group the Chieftains, playing on all of their 44 albums. He was part ...
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Siobhan Owen
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Owen Sheers
Owen Sheers (born 20 September 1974) is a Welsh poet, author, playwright and television presenter. He was the first writer in residence to be appointed by any national rugby union team.
Early life
Owen Sheers was born in Suva, Fiji in 1974, and b ...
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Maggie Stiefvater
Margaret Stiefvater ( ; Hummel) is an American writer of young adult fiction, known mainly for her series of fantasy novels '' The Wolves of Mercy Falls'' and ''The Raven Cycle''. She currently lives in Virginia.
Life and career
Early life
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The Once
The Once is a folk trio based in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. The group features Geraldine Hollett on lead vocals and vocalist-instrumentalists Phil Churchill and Andrew Dale playing a variety of instruments. The group performs a mix of ori ...
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The Outside Track
The Outside Track is a Pan Celtic group that performs Scots, Irish and Cape Breton songs and stepdance. Members of the group include Ailie Robertson who has won a LiveIreland Music Award and was a BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician fi ...
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Jack Vettriano
Jack Vettriano (born Jack Hoggan, 17 November 1951) is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting ''The Singing Butler'' became a best-selling image in Britain.
Early life
Jack Vettriano was born and grew up in the industrial seaside town of Met ...
Featured Articles
Articles about notable Celts in history, and conducted by the editors of ''Celtic Family Magazine'' included:
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J.M. Barrie
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Laurence Binyon
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Bartholomew Roberts
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Roald Dahl
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Eddie Foy, Sr.
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Owain Glyndŵr
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Eirian Llwyd
Eirian Llwyd (1951 – 29 January 2014) was a Welsh artist and wife of former Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones.
Biography
Llwyd was born at Prion near Denbigh, Wales. After nursing in Liverpool between 1969-73 she worked as a midwife at St As ...
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Jim Morrison
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Redmond O'Hanlon
Redmond O'Hanlon, FRGS, FRSL (born 5 June 1947) is an English writer and scholar.
Life
O'Hanlon was born in 1947 in Dorset, England. He was educated at Marlborough College and then Oxford University. After taking his M.Phil. in nineteenth-c ...
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Grace O'Malley
Grace O'Malley ( – c. 1603), also known as Gráinne O'Malley ( ga, Gráinne Ní Mháille, ), was the head of the Ó Máille dynasty in the west of Ireland, and the daughter of Eóghan Dubhdara Ó Máille.
In Irish folklore she is commonly k ...
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John Petts
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Bram Stoker
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Dylan Thomas
Celtic Family Magazine Readers' Choice Awards
2015 Award Recipients
Notable contributors and their departments
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Lorin Morgan-Richards: Publisher and Editor-in-chief
* Kate Cowie Riley: Copy Editor and Lead Contributing Writer
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Sarah Hope: Arts Editor
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Nichola Hope: Arts Editor
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Valerie Stoneking: Beauty and Fashion Editor
* Maegan Langer: History and Mythology Editor
* Zoe Gladwin: Photographer
* Brian Pierce: Photographer and Contributor
* Betsy Baytos: Contributor
* Liisa Linklater: Contributor
* Cath Barton: Literature Editor (2013-2016)
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Amanda Shepherd: Dining Editor (2014-2015)
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Jason Shepherd: Cultural Editor (2013-2015)
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Peter Anthony Freeman
Peter Anthony Freeman is a Welsh author, politician and storyteller.
Career
Freeman was heavily involved with the Welsh community in Los Angeles where he was President of the Welsh League of Southern California, won the Los Angeles Eisteddfod H ...
: History and Mythology Editor (2013-2015)
* Dawn Morgan Fatheree: Contributor
See also
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List of literary magazines
Notes and references
External links
* {{Official facebook page, CelticFamilyMagazine
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2017 disestablishments in California
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