Celtic Recipes

Kernow - 1549 Commemoration Service at St Petroc's Church, Bodmin

Submitted by Kernow Matters to Us on August 16, 2021 - 12:03pm

Remembering the bloody events of 1549……

A packed St Petroc’s Church, Bodmin on Sunday 15th August, 2021 saw a service commemorating the bloody events of 1549 when thousands of Cornish people were killed or violently put to death by representatives of the English establishment whilst defending their Catholic religious practices, Cornish language and Celtic customs.

Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones - Welsh journalist who exposed Soviet famine of 1932–33.

Submitted by Mair Williams on August 15, 2021 - 8:31pm

The Soviet famine of 1932–33 killed millions of people in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union. Ukraine, Northern Caucasus, the Volga Region, Kazakhstan, the South Urals, and West Siberia were included in the areas heavily impacted by the famine. In the Ukraine it is known as the Holodomor and it has been estimated that over 3 million died, with some suggesting the deaths could stand at over 7 milion. In Kazakhstan it is thought over 600,000 (15% of all Kazakhs) died.

Language Activists Demand Action on Welsh Medium Education

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Submitted by Emmett McIntyre on August 11, 2021 - 4:10pm

 

Cymdeithas yr Iaith (CYI) , The Welsh Language Society,  have long  been calling for the abolition of the concept of “Welsh as a Second Language”, and have instead called for reforms to ensure that every pupil is given the opportunity through the education system to be educated in the medium of  Welsh. The CYI action plan includes:

Lady Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh and the 'Rout of Moy' that Saved Bonnie Prince Charlie

Submitted by Douglas MacQueen on August 11, 2021 - 10:51am

Lady Anne Mackintosh

The village of Moy (Scottish Gaelic: A' Mhòigh) is situated between the villages of Daviot and Tomatin, in the Highland region of Scotland. Moy Hall is near to the village and is the home of the chiefs of the Clan Mackintosh, a Highland Scottish clan. It was at Moy Hall that Jacobite supporter Lady Anne Farquharson-MacKintosh entertained Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie")  in 1746. She learned that English government forces were advancing to capture Prince Charlie and she arranged for an act of subterfuge to protect him from capture.

Lady MacKintosh arranged for Donald Fraser the blacksmith and four other retainers to watch the road from Inverness. During the night they saw hundreds of Hanoverian troops marching along the road. As the English government troops approached they set about deceiving the advancing army by firing their pistols, shouting the battle cries of the Clan MacDonald and Clan Cameron and banging their swords against rocks. They fooled the advancing soldiers into thinking they had entered a stronghold of the Jacobite Army. At which point the British Government forces hastily retreated. It was an event that has come to be remembered as the "Rout of Moy".

Circular - 1549 Service of Commemoration - 'Yes Kernow' at St Austell

Submitted by Kernow Matters to Us on August 9, 2021 - 3:48pm

1549 Commemoration

On behalf of Bodmin Old Cornwall Society, we bring you the following announcement:

BBC reports 'over tourism' in Cornwall - a crisis unfolding and we've warned about it all along

Submitted by Kernow Matters to Us on August 9, 2021 - 1:40pm

We have been warning and warning of this. Anyone with any degree of sense could see this approaching. Cornwall is being both over marketed and inappropriately marketed and the Butler Model looms ever larger (attached - model applied to touristic outcomes devised by Professor Richard Butler)

This sort of over tourism is destroying Cornwall, its natural environment and causing a second homes crisis which together with Air Bnbs is making local people homeless. It is quite simply unsustainable.

Blocking the bridge……'dreckly'

Submitted by Kernow Matters to Us on August 9, 2021 - 1:25pm

Blocking the bridge……

The routes in to Cornwall have been blocked several times down the years and perhaps surprisingly, in recent times.

A rally involving 500 Cornish people and their supporters occurred in 2010 at Saltash and in a sea of St Piran flags, Cornish people marched along the River Tamar showing their disdain for a proposed blurring of the ancient border between Cornwall and England.

Irish Ghost Story: The White Lady of Castleknock

Submitted by Eibhlin O'Neill on July 31, 2021 - 6:10pm

View of Castleknock Castle ruins 1791

The sites on which the remains of Ireland’s many medieval strongholds can be seen today, are often built on the location of former forts. In a number of cases the existence of these former fortresses are only remembered in local folklore. Many excavations have given substance to this local knowledge, when it is revealed that later castles are built on previous Iron and Bronze Age forts. This is perhaps not so surprising given they are located on naturally strategic points from which to control the surrounding land. So many sensible historians and archaeologists are wise to listen carefully to the verbal tradition of stories handed down from generation to generation. Because within these tales, embellished over the years, there is often more than a grain of truth.

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