GLASNEY MEMORIAL DAY - 12 NOON SATURDAY 23RD AUGUST, 2014
CORNISH REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY DURING THIS YEAR OF FORMAL RECOGNITION OF THE CORNISH PEOPLE
Cornish patriots will once again gather at the Glasney Memorial Monument at the base of Quay Hill, Penryn at its junction with Church Road/Falmouth Road, the B3292 which reads:
"HEMM A GOVHA AN KOLL A GOLLJI GLASNEDH HA’N MERNANS A VILYOW A WLASKARORYON GERNEWEK YN UNN DHEFENDYA AGA FYDH, YETH HA DEVOSOW KELTEK."
"This commemorates the loss of Glasney and the death of thousands of Cornish patriots in defence of their faith, language and Celtic customs."
The background by a noted Cornish historian:
"The Anglo-Cornish War of June-August 1549 and its sickening aftermath cost the lives of more than 5,000 Cornish people – approximately 10 per cent of the Duchy’s entire population.
Such a proportion labels this episode to be one of the worst acts of genocide in the history of the world.
No one had yet conquered and subjugated the Cornish: not the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons or the Normans.
In 1549, it finally happened, with Cornwall’s people being terrorized into an enforced English state religion, an English state language and enforced English overlordship. The Duchy’s rights of autonomy became ignored and trampled into the dust and have continued to be denied ever since, even though those rights remain intact at law to this day.
No longer were State documents to bear the previously common distinction: “Anglia et Cornubia”. Cornwall, up until then consistently shown as a separate nation, was no longer shown as such on maps. Even what had always been The British Sea became The English Channel overnight as the juggernaut of English nationalism and assimiliation rolled over the island’s truly indigenous people."
In 2007 the Bishop of Truro publicly expressed regret over the slaughter on behalf of the English Church which was violently imposed on Cornwall.
Join us as we remember the fallen Cornish on this day. The Banners of St Piran and of the Celtic League and other Cornish organisations will be borne.
Cornish flags and tartans welcomed.
CORNISH REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY DURING THIS YEAR OF FORMAL RECOGNITION OF THE CORNISH PEOPLE
Cornish patriots will once again gather at the Glasney Memorial Monument at the base of Quay Hill, Penryn at its junction with Church Road/Falmouth Road, the B3292 which reads:
"HEMM A GOVHA AN KOLL A GOLLJI GLASNEDH HA’N MERNANS A VILYOW A WLASKARORYON GERNEWEK YN UNN DHEFENDYA AGA FYDH, YETH HA DEVOSOW KELTEK."
"This commemorates the loss of Glasney and the death of thousands of Cornish patriots in defence of their faith, language and Celtic customs."
The background by a noted Cornish historian:
"The Anglo-Cornish War of June-August 1549 and its sickening aftermath cost the lives of more than 5,000 Cornish people – approximately 10 per cent of the Duchy’s entire population.
Such a proportion labels this episode to be one of the worst acts of genocide in the history of the world.
No one had yet conquered and subjugated the Cornish: not the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons or the Normans.
In 1549, it finally happened, with Cornwall’s people being terrorized into an enforced English state religion, an English state language and enforced English overlordship. The Duchy’s rights of autonomy became ignored and trampled into the dust and have continued to be denied ever since, even though those rights remain intact at law to this day.
No longer were State documents to bear the previously common distinction: “Anglia et Cornubia”. Cornwall, up until then consistently shown as a separate nation, was no longer shown as such on maps. Even what had always been The British Sea became The English Channel overnight as the juggernaut of English nationalism and assimiliation rolled over the island’s truly indigenous people."
In 2007 the Bishop of Truro publicly expressed regret over the slaughter on behalf of the English Church which was violently imposed on Cornwall.
Join us as we remember the fallen Cornish on this day. The Banners of St Piran and of the Celtic League and other Cornish organisations will be borne.
Cornish flags and tartans welcomed.