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... It's because of deep thinking like this that it irritates me when I see medieval Ireland being portrayed in simplistic terms, as though everyone was sitting around a fire telling stories about gods and heroes; as though the stories which emerged from medieval Ireland are folk tales without authors. These writers thought so carefully about words, and wrote with a consciousness of having meaning layered upon meaning, that to reduce it all to 'mythology' feels like an insult. The tendency to romanticize it seems disrespectful to writers who valued precise engagement with words and what they signify.
The sophisticated grammatical terminology attested in Old Irish shows how writers subjected their own language to the same rigorous analysis as Latin.

Elizabeth Boyle, 'Fierce Appetites'

we're so back 😎 i read bits of the john collis celts book in my first year and i've been meaning to read celtic from the west and the atlantic celts since then too. also the atlas looks cool i like maps :) no idea how long the university library will let me borrow books for over the summer though lol. i got a book on ulster nationalism and one on gorsedh kernow, but that was about all i could fit into my bag before it got too heavy for me 😔😔😔

there's been a number of articles on various news sites recently about cornish language revival and there's always comments like "i'm cornish and i don't care" "i live in cornwall and this isn't interesting to me" "i'm from cornwall and the cornish language is useless" etc etc. like christ it drives me insane. the absolute apathy. the disrespect/ignorance for your own language/culture/history. idk. they probably just haven't decolonised their way of thinking but still. insanely frustrating.

i know there's a lot of english people living in cornwall who've displaced the actual cornish population (which has happened with my own cornish family members), so maybe that's a factor in it?? i.e. english people living in cornwall who just see it as a "beautiful sunny holiday retreat", or just another part of england and english culture, or whatever. but regardless, if you've moved somewhere with a minority culture i think you should also want to take interest in it at least a little bit?? especially like if you're from the place that has oppressed that minority culture for 100s of years, i think you should at least learn a bit about that culture's history and the damage that's been done to it etc.

idk. very frustrating.

i want to start some kind of social media account or campaign or something to raise awareness of how inaccessible our university campus is. but like there's not even a disabled students society i could get help from. there's a neurodivergent one that i'm thinking of joining in september to see if there's any physically disabled people there who'd want to help me, bc i think undertaking such a project on my own would be difficult and there are other people with other disabilities whose viewpoints and experiences would be essential, not just my own. we do have a staff accessibility team but the way the university hierarchy or w/e works means they don't actually have that much power to do anything at all.

i want to make some sort of change bc tbh it fucking sucks here and i think the one other physically disabled person who was in one of my classes may have dropped out. it sucks, why are we expected to live like this with broken lifts, broken automatic doors, doors that have no automation, etc when the university just spent A Large Amount on a new gym, when they already have other gyms on campus. but apparently it's too much hassle to spend money to actually provide basic access to some of their students. like why am i going into all this debt to be here if i can't even get to some of my classes. 🧐

the university is actually quite good for support for neurodivergent students (in my experience at least), but what's the point in that if i can't access that help bc the university is so fucking physically inaccessible to me!!