Cornish

  • Cornish gather in front of the Cornish Stone, ready for the ceremony

    Cornish gather at Australian Celtic Festival 2012

    The 20th Australian Celtic Festival may have honoured our cousins the Bretons, as well as Galicia and Asturia, as its 2012 theme  but the Cornish in Australia also gathered in Glen Innes  last week (3-6 May, 2012). Situated 915m (3,000 ft) above sea level in...
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    Back to Eaglehawk

    The Cornish in Victoria, Australia, got together last month for 3 days of Cornish heritage, friendship and fun! [16, 17, 18th March 2012] As part of the 41st Eaglehawk Dahlia and Arts Festival, it was back to Eaglehawk, a town within what is now the...
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    All lawful UK complaint procedures exhausted on moor ‘vandalism’

    The local action group Save Penwith Moors has reported that their campaign, begun in July 2008, has now exhausted all lawful UK complaint procedures – from all management levels within Natural England to the Parliamentary Ombudsman − without gaining any recognition or acceptance of their...
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    Cornish Britons won their future at the battle of Hehil?

    Cornish Britons won their future at the battle of Hehil - by Rob Simmons In the beginning of the eighth century, the old British Celtic kingdom of Dumnonia was in the midst of a titanic struggle against the expansionist Saxon kingdom of Wessex. Both kingdoms...
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    To ‘the three Rs’, add ‘I’ for identity

    Since 2006 school children in Cornwall have rightly been allowed to record themselves as ‘ethnically’ Cornish on the annual Schools Census (PLASC). Since then the number identifying as Cornish has risen from 24% to 41%. 2006: 24 percent 2007: 27 percent 2008: 30 percent 2009:...
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    Sun, surf, and saffron?

    - by Kevrenor - Sun – there was that in abundance! Surf - just nearby at your choice of ocean or bay-side location! Saffron - well, no saffron buns or cake for this year alas – but there was certainly saffron in the Cornish national...
  • Rick Rescorla's memoral in Penpol Terrace, Hayle

    RIP Rick Rescorla 1939 – 2001

    Cornish born hero Rick Rescorla, who saved almost 2,700 lives on September 11, 2001 only to lose his own, has been honoured by an Opera in the USA. The San Francisco Opera is producing “Heart of a Soldier,” based on Rescorla’s life. A memorial was...
  • Visiting Bard and 'Town Crier' Howard Curnow, with Albert Jenkin (Tommi O'Hagan talking with gent on right)

    Cry of Tin to Shake Rag Alley – ’twas Cornish Cousins!

    - ONE of the wonderful things about being of Cornish birth or ancestry is that (almost everywhere) in this wide world the sun never sets on a Pasty!  … Or more seriously, on people being proud of the strong (or even scanty) threads of Cornish...
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    Boscawen-Un, Cornish Bards, and the ‘Arwen’

     
  • Cornish Bards from across Australia, and from Cornwall and USA gather at Davies Square, Wallaroo, during the 2009 Kernewek Lowender

    Kernewek Lowender: World’s largest Cornish festival underway for 20th time

    With Padstow’s ‘Obby ‘Os and Helston Flora Day now out of the way, Cornish eyes now go down to the Yorke Peninsular in South Australia whwre the Kernewek Lowender (the world’s largest Cornish festival) is well ready to get underway today (10 May). The 20th...