PUBLISHER: The Cornish Language Board Two years later the Cornish Language Board published the third play in the same format as the second. UC £4.50 Edwin Norris’s edition of the original text may be accessed here.
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THE CORNISH ORDINALIA – 2nd PLAY: PASSIO CHRISTI
PUBLISHER: Agan Tavas With the permission of the Cornish Language Board, this is the second edition of the book in Unified Cornish with an English translation. Graham Sandercock did a great amount of work on the first edition and there is further editing in this edition by Ray Chubb. It has been kept in the […]
THE CORNISH ORDINALIA 1st PLAY: ORIGO MUNDI
PUBLISHER: Agan Tavas It has taken 17 years but at last the task of publishing all three parts of the Ordinalia in Unified Cornish has been completed. Fittingly, for the first play in the series, Origo Mundi has an excellent preface by Jane French who as Jane Bakere was the author of “The Cornish Ordinalia: […]
GWRYANS AN BYS
PUBLISHER: Dyllansow Truran Creation of the World is a Cornish Drama written by William Jordon (1611) but almost certainly transcribed from a much earlier manuscript. This version was put into the standard Unified spelling by Morton–Nance and A.S.D. Smith and edited by E.G. Retallack–Hooper. The Cornish has an English translation over leaf. UC 0907566367 £2.45 […]
THE NEW TESTAMENT
PUBLISHER: Spyrys a Gernow Translated into Cornish by Nicholas Williams MA, PhD, DipCeltStud. (Golvan). The first complete New Testament in Cornish. Comes complete with maps of the Holy Land and the journeys of St Paul. Nicholas Williams has made much use of scripture extracts from the historical Cornish texts which gives the book a fresh […]
AN BEYBEL SANS
PUBLISHER: Evertype Released in August 2011, this is the first time that the complete Bible has been published in Cornish. Translated into Cornish by Prof. Nicholas Williams MA, PhD, DipCeltStud (Golvan). Contains pages for family history and maps of the Holy Land. Because the translation is by one translator it is a very consistent one. […]
‘A Christmas Carol’
(UCR+English.) written and abridged by Charles Dickens, lots of illustrations by Arthur Rackham, translated by Ray Chubb. (soft cover, perfect binding, 9″x 6″ US Trade, 84 pages. £6.95)
‘Twas the Night before Christmas’
UC+KS+Eng.) written by Clement C. Moore, lots of illustrations by Arthur Rackham,translations by Eddie Climo and Nicholas Williams. (soft cover, perfect binding,A5, 40 pages. £4.95
ANETHOW ǼSOP ha WHETHLOW EREL gans E.F. YOUNG ha W.T. FIELD
PUBLISHER: Gwask an Orlewen This is book number 4 in the series of reading books by Gwask an Orlewen. As well as containing twenty five short stories and three playlets the book has a number of songs in Cornish at the back. As you might expect the reading becomes more advanced with each book in […]
DROLLYS A LYES BRO gans E.F. YOUNG ha W.T. FIELD
PUBLISHER: Gwask an Orlewen A further series of simple stories collected from all over the world and translated into Cornish. Number three in the series. Suitable for beginners as well as children. UC £7.95
PELLA WHETHLOW DAMA GOTH gans E.F. YOUNG ha W.T. FIELD
PUBLISHER: Gwask an Orlewen Further stories in the ‘Dama Goth’ style where language patterns are repeated in order to aid acquisition. UC £7.95
GWERSYOW DAMA GOTH gans E.F. YOUNG ha W.T. FIELD
PUBLISHER: Gwask an Orlewen A book of popular children’s nursery rhymes in Cornish with the English alongside. UC £5.95
TOWARDS AUTHENTIC CORNISH by Prof. Nicholas Williams
PUBLISHER: Evertype Prof. Williams’s response to the Cornish Language Board’s publication “Cornish For The Twenty-First Century”, (ISBN 0 907 064 71 X). 978 1 904808 09 1 £12.95
RENARD AN LOWARN gans E. Louise Smythe
PUBLISHER: Gwask an Orlewen A beautifully illustrated book of short stories translated into Cornish about a crafty fox. An ideal book for bedtime story reading, it contains a full glossary of the words used at the back. UC £7.95
WHEDHLOW DAMA GOTH gans E.F. YOUNG ha W.T. FIELD
PUBLISHER: Gwask an Orlewen The same book but using the Standard Written Form of Cornish with the traditional graph option. Useful for home teaching where children will be attending, when they are old enough, a school providing some Cornish teaching. SWF (t) £7.95
WHETHLOW DAMA GOTH gans E.F. YOUNG ha W.T. FIELD
PUBLISHER: Gwask an Orlewen A book of very simple children’s stories with some beautiful illustrations. Just like children’s basic reading books in English, ‘Whethlow Dama Goth’ repeats language patterns in order that they are absorbed by the child. As such the book would also be useful for beginners at an early learning stage. UC £7.95
LYVER LYWA gans Randolph Caldecott
PUBLISHER: Gwask an Orlewen An attractive colouring book with some simple Cornish verse and phrases with translations. Being a reprint of some 19th century books gives this book a unique charm of its own. UC £5.95
KENSA LYVER REDYA by Eddie Climo
PUBLISHER: Evertype A new well illustrated children’s book. Contains 9 short stories in very simple Cornish. KS 978-1-904808-24-4 £8.95
LYVER LYWANS gans Brian Young
PUBLISHER: Spyrys a Gernow A publishing first! The first book to be printed in more than one of the Celtic languages. This is a colouring book of creatures from Celtic mythology with a brief description in Welsh, Cornish and Breton. Brian Young’s Celtic artwork is superb and of a type not hither to seen. A […]
LYVER LYWA
PUBLISHER: Dalleth An inexpensive colouring book for children which helps them to learn a few Cornish words and phrases in a fun way. UC £0.70
CANOW HA WHETHLOW FLEGHES
PUBLISHER: Dalleth The tape which accompanies the above book. The B side has a number of readings of popular children’s stories in Cornish. UC £5.99
CANOW FLEGHES
PUBLISHER: Dalleth A book of delightful songs for children in Cornish. Words have been put to tunes from all over the Celtic world. UC £1.60
AN KY A GERDHES BYS DHE LOUNDRES trelyes gans Vanessa Beeman
PUBLISHER: Gwask Noonvares The popular children’s story about Brengy the dog who accompanied his owner Ann Trevenen Jenkin to London on the commemorative march for the 1497 uprising. Loads of colour photographs and some excellent drawing by Craig Weatherhill. UC 0 9524601-4-9 £7.50
WHETHEL AN TYLU SPRYGAN gans Mavis Timms ha Joanna Tucker
PUBLISHER: Spyrys a Gernow A fairy story for children of all ages! First printed by Cowethas an Yeth Kernewek, the third book in the series Classic Cornish Stories. The late Joanna Tucker’s drawings make this a charming little book to own. UC 0 9535975 5 5 £2.50
FORM AND CONTENT IN REVIVED CORNISH by various writers
PUBLISHER : Evertype A collection of writings by various language experts setting out the case for the Commission of Experts appointed by the Cornish Language Partnership as to why the commission should not recommend Common Cornish as the Standard Form for use in schools and public life. 978 1 904808 10 7 £12.50
EVERYDAY WORDS In Cornish
PUBLISHER: Agan Tavas Hardback One of the Usborne range of children’s books translated into Cornish. A very colourful book with about 500 words. Designed to help children and/or adults expand their Cornish in a fun way. UC 1 901409 08 2 £9.99
DROLLYS GYS-DONS translated by Eddie Climo
PUBLISHER: Gwask an Orlewen This book contains a number of versions of mummers or Christmas plays found in Cornwall nearly all with a Cornish translation. Not only this, but a number of Christmas and other folk songs again with Cornish translations. Without this book many of the plays would have remained unpublished in archives. It […]
TRYSTAN HAG YSOLT gans A.S.D. Smith ha David Watkins
PUBLISHER: Gwask an Orlewen A version in verse of the famous Trystan and Ysolt story. Based on the French prose of Prof. J. Bèdier this version is in Revived Middle Cornish at its very best. UC £11.95
DROLLA DOCTOUR DOLITTLE Gans Hugh Lofting trelyes gans Eddie Climo
PUBLISHER Gwask an Orlewen This well known children’s story now in Cornish! Well translated and amusing even for adults. KU £7.45
GOOTH HA GOWVREUS Gans Jane Austin trelyes gans Nicholas Williams, Penscrefor Cussulek Frances Bennett
PUBLISHER: Evertype ‘Pride and Prejudice’ in Cornish! Another triumph for Nicholas Williams. The original English is first class and so is the Cornish if you want to know what good repartee is in Cornish, read this book. KS 978-1-78201-093-7 £15.95