Gonisogeth Kernewek

Dedicated to Cornish culture, language, landscape and rewilding!

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This is a blog for Cornwall and as such this blogs position that Cornwall never seceded land to the crown and therefore deserves a devolution to the Stannery at worst, and total autonomy at best.

It is also against exclusionary politics, gatekeeping of resources, right wing beliefs of nationalism and identity & supports the rights of BAME & Romani + traveller folks in the wider UK, transgender & nonbinary rights, queer liberation, workers rights & anarchy.

Join a union! Look after your fellow humans!

Pan-Celtic politics are important, worthy of discussion and worthy of serious consideration.

Cornish Culture is that of rebellion, folk heroes and mazed love and joy. This is a place to celebrate that, our gorgeous lands and the history of the region.

Tipping enabled on posts because this takes a lot of time/effort - especially for posts that require research & writing.

(Also Devon sucks)

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Breaking my hiatus to bring everyone’s attention to the fact that Cornwall is now attempting to be officially recognised as a nation within the United Kingdom.

Kernow has its own language, culture, history and identity. The language was forcibly removed by the English until the last monolingual speaker died in 1777–her name was Dolly Pentreath. It has existed as a kingdom before England had ever existed. Historically, Cornwall has been a place exploited for minerals and resources and labour. Currently, it still is. There are now ghost towns where once thriving fishing villages stood (Mousehole, Pentreath’s home, was one of these). Cornwall is now a playground for second home owners who drive up house and rent prices and drive out permanent residents and workers. Local businesses go out of business and struggle to stay afloat when the influx of tourists come who only purchase from supermarkets, putting nothing into the local economy. There is a long, long and often very gruesome and bloody history behind this—leaders of rebellions executed all the way into 1715.

If you are in the UK, and sign the petition to get this to a debate in Parliament.

Can you spare 60 seconds to sign

[cornishculture]

Pen Mor 'Oss Parade, Summer Solstice 2025, Aberfal, Kernow

[certainwoman]

Enys Men (2022), dir. Mark Jenkin

[s38s73r]

Sunrise, late afternoon, sunset

[folkfashion]

Cornish woman, United Kingdom, by One & All: The Many Faces of Cornwall

[fallbabylon]

Duloe Stone Circle- Kernow

[fallbabylon]

The Ragadaziow (forefathers) Guisers performing the trial of the Beast of Bodmin- a mock trial in the style of a mummers play dating back to 1549. The Bodmin Play (An Gwary Bosvenna) sees the beast captured and paraded in the streets- St Petroc’s Ossery Casket watching over the event.

The Beast of Bodmin is not just a recent cultural reference but refers to the local tradition of a dragon at Halgavor. Legend states that St. Petroc removed a splinter from the creature’s eye and thus tamed it. Historical records of Riding Day Revels refer to people being tricked into searching for and fighting the dragon. - Bodmin, Kernow

[ccohanlon]

Rusted or splintered hulks and cement-filled pontoons form makeshift breakwaters for Carbeile Wharf, a tidal boatyard and Mad Max-adjacent live-aboard community in Torpoint, Cornwall, 2023

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Ash Sarkar agus Nàimhdeas Neònach

Le Marcas Mac an Tuairneir

Featuring an English translation, an explanation of the current twitter storm around Ash Sarkar.

[mysharona1987]

Don’t know the details, but honey, if they didn’t like you before, this interview isn’t going to help.

[bubblegum-sullivan-13]

I have seen the second homers come into my lake community and ruin it and push people out and take control of the HOA and try to turn this place into Disney Celebration Village II and now with this air bnb crap where it's even easier to monetize these second homes it's gotten ten times worse. These locusts come in try ban certain colors of houses, and work vans, and at home businesses, and police peoples yards, and mandate any farm equipment must be barn/garage kept and out of sight from the road and this and that and this other thing. They get up at HOA meetings and read reviews of renters and try to pass ordinances to prevent whatever the air bnber complained about. Like no mowing your grass in your bathing suit and only being able to mow or run power equipment certain hours of the day and only on week days. And these air bnb assholes complain about everything like this was some resort and everybody that lives here is like there for their entertainment or convenience. Right now our HOA meetings are like some country about to devolve into civil war. We have factions and caucuses. If you air bnb I hate you as much as the people you rent from.

[wolverinesorcery]

Thought I recognised this kind of whingy self righteous rhetoric and sure enough, the woman in the article bought a second house in a cornish town and is mad that locals rightfully detest her for increasing the housing crisis.

The article has some really pathetic 'I got told to go back to London:(' whining in too. Lol. Lmao. Imagine having two! Two!! Houses and feeling like the victim. Naturally she thinks renting out her second home to tourists is helping St Mawes, what an absolute moron.

[cornishculture]

No matter how much international releases say Enys Men is a British horror, it's not. It's a Cornish folk horror film through and through, made by a proud Cornishman and featuring gorgeous parts of the Cornish landscape & Folklore.

[cornishculture]

Gool Peran Lowen!!!

[cornishculture]

Advocating for Kernow & it's independence, culture, etc, necessarily involves the recognititon that Kernow as part of England is false and an imperialist project. Without this recognition, any lip service paid to Kernow + it's people is meaningless.

[cyprussy]

Hag ow kewsel a-barth Kernow ha’y anserghogeth, gonisogeth, h.e. yth yw res porres merkya bos an hwedhel a Gernow dhe vos rann a Bow Sows fals, ha ragdres emperourogethel. Heb merkya henna nyns yw keskows yn kever Kernow ha’y fobel saw kows gwag ha distyr.

[meichenxi]

Speakers of non-English languages of the UK and Ireland wanted!!

Since it’s World Mother Language Day today (February the 21st), I’m thinking of doing a series of posts on the native non-English languages of the United Kingdom and Ireland, with some information and short interviews. 

For this, I am looking for both native speakers/signers and learners (with or without parentage/heritage of the language in question) of the following languages:

- Scottish Gaelic

- Irish

- Welsh

- Any sign language of the United Kingdom or Ireland (e.g. BSL)

- Any other minority language indigenous to the United Kingdom or Ireland. By this I mean primarily spoken only within the UK or Ireland as a minority, or spoken very little elsewhere. For example: Cornish, Manx, Shelta, or Anglo-Romani, not languages like Polish or Bengali that are minority within the UK but have a significant speaker base elsewhere. (I am aware that I am fishing for some of these *cough* Cornish *cough*…but you never know!)

- Any ‘dialect’ or variety that you speak that you feel is linguistically / culturally distinct from Standard English that you would like to inform more people about. For example: Shetlandic, Scots, Ulster Scots. 

I don’t have anything finalised yet, but if you would be wiling to speak to me about some text-based interviews for the sake of qualitative and informative tumblr posts, please send me a message!

(NB: if I have used any names of languages that are not preferred, tell me and I will change them. I don’t know a lot about the non-Celtic and non-Germanic languages here, which is part of my reason for wanting to make this series of posts in the first place.)

Please reblog so more people see this!

- meichenxi

[cornishculture]

Advocating for Kernow & it's independence, culture, etc, necessarily involves the recognititon that Kernow as part of England is false and an imperialist project. Without this recognition, any lip service paid to Kernow + it's people is meaningless.

[cornishculture]

A photo of the memorial after a vigil for Brianna Ghey in Falmouth. There's another in Redruth on Sunday 19th at 3pm in the town centre.

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/brianna-ghey-cornish-communities-hold-8158683