About John Angarrack
John angarrack is a cornish nationalist and also a self published author about cornwall and cornish affairs....
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About John Angarrack
John angarrack is a cornish nationalist and also a self published author about cornwall and cornish affairs. He campaigns for greater recognition of the cornish identity and cornish culture and language.
John Angarrack self published three books below about cornwall
Scat t’Larrups?
Resist and Survive.
Publisher: Independent Academic Press
Date of Publication: 2008
Pages: 330
Style: Hardback
ISBN: 0 9529313 54
Cover text: The year is 2007 and Government react to what appears to be a co-ordinated threat to national security. The Secretary of State sets normal affairs of Government aside to hold two days of crisis talks with her advisors and the future king is consulted. Dawn raids by dozens of armed police result in suspected terrorists being rounded up at gunpoint. Enemy flags, instruction manuals and documents in a foreign language are taken as evidence. High profile personalities are offered special protection and the press hint of a plot to blow up the QE2. The tension abates only after Government and judiciary conspire to intimidate the community into compliance.
A Tom Clancy thriller? No. The events described above really happened – in Cornwall. But what is the truth behind the sensationalism and why did Government take such extreme measures against Cornish people? John Angarrack’s follow-up book to Breaking the Chains and Our Future is History looks at what happened during this period and attempts to set events in their proper context.
OUR FUTURE IS HISTORY:
Identity Law and the Cornish Question.
Publisher: Independent Academic Press
Date of Publication: 2002
Pages: 342
Style: hardback
ISBN: 0 9529313 46
Cover text: John Angarrack’s latest investigations uncover a web of State-inspired deception intended to gerrymander a nations constitutional position, denude the status of her people and defraud them out of their social, cultural, economic and political rights. Alarmingly, what sounds like a work of fiction is actually a carefully researched, well argued, fully referenced work of fact. Based on the Author’s personal experiences, this follow up to Breaking the Chains is a must for all those who have at some time asked, but been unable to answer, the Cornish Question.
BREAKING THE CHAINS:
Propaganda, Censorship, Deception and the Manipulation of Public Opinion in Cornwall.
Publisher: Cornish Stannary Publications
Date of publication: 1999
Pages: 442
Style: soft-back
ISBN: 0 9529313 11Cover text: We all know that the conquest and later repressions of Cornwall involved the use of force. But how many realise ([in the new international climate of toleration of minorities and respect for small nations) that ongoing acts of latter day neo-colonialism by Westminster and Whitehall constitute a form of permanent and continuing State aggression? These covert activities need exposing simply because when a people become engaged in the struggle for a greater degree of self-determination they need to be able to justify why it is they offer resistance to the autocratic forces of centralised control. There is no doubt that, left to its own devices, Cornwall would find a more productive balance between centralisation and autonomy. However, dark forces work surreptitiously to stonewall such an event. This hard-hitting and often controversial book sets out to explain what the forces of centralisation have done in the past and, more importantly, reveals what is being done behind closed doors today.
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| Mark – With reference to the Cornish language you will find that the Bryothonic (British) tongue was spoken across most of Britain before the arrival of the Romans and survived with many Latinisations by them. It was the Saxons who used the word wealas (most likely meaning foreigners) to refer to any inhabitants who were not like them. From which is derived the name of Wales and the Wall of Cornwall. After Wessex’s victory at Deorham around 577 the Britons of the West Country were cut off from those of Wales and as such the languages evolved separately into Modern Welsh & Cornish. The bryothonic languages would have survived in pockets spoken throughout the West Country until being superseded by the Saxon tongue as Wessex expanded. Both what you call West Country Brythonic and Cornish are separate languages derived from a Common root. Like any language it continuously evolves and once speakers are cut of from each other the language will diverge into separate languages. The Cornish that was spoken in say the 10th Century would be very different to that of the 17th Century, which does lead to confusion in finding an accurate modern pronunciation as it is based on the interpretations of texts and manuscripts from different periods. I do not know of any surviving texts or manuscripts from any other Bryothonic tongue so as such would assume it would be very difficult to resurrect this language. Pete |
Tim ... yes, we should get together to publish some useful ammo. I'm sure the Executive Committee of the Cornish Constitutional Convention might welcome that sort of practical support. But we should check they haven't already published it (eg through their website) before reinventing that sort of wheel! As for the housing policies you've suggested, those sort of measures might make a lot of sense. They are partly the responsibility, currently, of District Councils, and would remain so under either the Government's proposals for a Regional Assembly (whatever its boundaries) or the Convention's more powerful Senedh Kernow. I like the idea of the Stannary Parliament altering the Duchy's land rights and priveliges, but I suspect it might also be necessary to change primary legislation in the UK Parliament, with or without devolution of power to a Senedh Kernow. Tell us more, Tim ... how would the Stannary process work? Adrian Watts, Flushing, Falmouth |
