The project

The project aims to make Intercelticism visible all year round in Lorient through the creation of symbolic works.
The association aims to promote the cultures of the Celtic countries and Inter-Celtic relations in the Lorient region by all possible means, in conjunction with the various existing players and the town of Lorient. And this is to make it the essential center of inter-Celticism in Brittany and other Celtic countries.

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Paddy Moloney
Ireland

Paddy Moloney

The leader and founder of The Chieftains. Founded in 1962, the exceptionally long-lived band has released nearly 40 albums to worldwide acclaim.

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Scotland

Gordon Duncan

A musical genius, anticonformist – rock and roll in the end – enfant terrible and gifted on the pipes. Gordon broke all the taboos around his instrument. He profoundly changed its repertoire and the definition of what was possible for the instrument to do.

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Carlos Nuñez
Galicia

Carlos Núñez

Carlos Núñez is regarded the world over as an extraordinary musician, one of the most serious and brilliant of his generation, and a true ambassador for Galicia and Intercelticism throughout the world.

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Ireland

Paddy Moloney

The leader and founder of The Chieftains. Founded in 1962, the exceptionally long-lived band has released nearly 40 albums to worldwide acclaim.

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Scotland

Gordon Duncan

Anticonformist, sometimes crazy, – rock’n’roll in the end – enfant terrible and gifted of the pipe, Gordon Duncan has broken all the taboos around this instrument.

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Galicia

Carlos Nuñez

Carlos Núñez is regarded the world over as an extraordinary musician, one of the most serious and brilliant of his generation, and a true ambassador for Galicia and Intercelticism throughout the world.

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CREATION
of future statue

Lorient interceltic capital

Sculptors

Rennes

Annick Leroy


After a career as a computer scientist in the academic world, I began a second life in 2001 by embracing the profession of sculptor.

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La Gacilly

Anne Smith

Born in Britain, Anne Smith acquired her painter training at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in London. She settled in Brittany in 1988.

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Bernard Potel

Polig Monjarret

On August 3, 2008, a statue representing Polig Monjarret, founder of Kan ar Bobl and father of the Interceltic Festival, was inaugurated in the square that bears his name, in the presence of several hundred people, including many elected officials and cultural leaders.

The work was commissioned by the Association of Friends of Polig Monjarret and presented to the City of Lorient (officially handed over on August 4, 2009). It is signed by sculptor Bernard Potel and was cast by the Nivet workshops in Plérin, in the Côtes-d’Armor.
An emblematic figure of the Breton cultural revival in the 20th century, Polig Monjarret (1920–2003) collected more than 4,500 traditional Breton tunes and songs, published in the two volumes of Toniou Breizh Izel. He was also the co-founder of Bodadeg ar Sonerion, initiator of the Brittany-Ireland twinning projects, co-founder of the Lorient Interceltic Festival, Kan ar Bobl, and more.

On August 3, 2008, a statue representing Polig Monjarret, founder of Kan ar Bobl and father of the Interceltic Festival, was inaugurated in the square that bears his name, in the presence of several hundred people, including many elected officials and cultural leaders.

The work was commissioned by the Association of Friends of Polig Monjarret and presented to the City of Lorient (officially handed over on August 4, 2009). It is signed by sculptor Bernard Potel and was cast by the Nivet workshops in Plérin, in the Côtes-d’Armor.
An emblematic figure of the Breton cultural revival in the 20th century, Polig Monjarret (1920–2003) collected more than 4,500 traditional Breton tunes and songs, published in the two volumes of Toniou Breizh Izel. He was also the co-founder of Bodadeg ar Sonerion, initiator of the Brittany-Ireland twinning projects, co-founder of the Lorient Interceltic Festival, Kan ar Bobl, and more.

Lorient interceltic capital
Lorient interceltic capital

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