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The Rising of the Moon

Lies sita re beu ran a’w bywnans... Londres... ha lies sita na vien vy ynno... Yerusalem, Rom, Berlin... mes ha my maw y’n Tiredh Ughel, Dulynn o an sita war an gorwel dhyn ni.
Radio Iwerdhonn o krevva es an Home Service fest a-venowgh. Y fedha ow poesa war an gewer yn gwiryonedh. Ha kefrys y hwelsyn ni an mirway marthys ma – The Rising of the Moon – yn mirji byghan esa yn Delyowboll.
Yth esa tri hwedhel ynno, onan war an mes o hwedhel pur Gernewek, marnas an blasow Gwydhelek, yn kever den yth o gwell ganso mones dhe’n prison es diharas dhe dhen a frappyas ev rag gelwel gowleveryas warnodho.
Yth o an nessa huni yn kever tus esa owth assaya gortos tren. Yth esa gorsav byghan genen dhe’n termyn ne, kyns es an Doktour Beeching. Yma kov dhymm a boenya di yn-unn waytya gweles an Six- Five Special. Ott o an dowlenn gynse yn kever ilow- tros yn Kortyb. Nyns esa pellwolok genen ni, mes yma kov dhym a weles an Six-Five Special gans Pete Murray yn-dan eneba yn chiow ow howetha, gans the Six-Five Special’s coming down the line, the Six-Five Special’s right on time, mes ny vedha’n Six-Five Special ow tones dhe Dhelyowboll. Na fors fatell vo, yth o an tressa huni selys war wari-mir gans an Ardhoedhes Gregory, mes re bia nowisys an termyn dhy dermyn an Bresel Rydhses. Yth esa eth pur, pur dewl yno genev vy. Y fedha ow korra browagh ynov.
Wosa kavoes an bladenn y’n eur ma, tro hy ogas hwegh deg bledhen a-wosa, y hwonn vy y’n eur ma dell o gwari-hwardh herwydh gis pur Wydhalek. Wosa henna yth esa hwans dhymm a vones di hag y fydhen vy ow koslowes worth Radyo Iwerdhon. Yth o da genev an hwedhlow yn kever bughwesyon yn Radio Iwerdhon. Res awosa my dhe glywes Gwydhalek pell kyns dell glywis vy Kernewek, yw tra goynt dh’y leverel. Henn yw, ha my ow trehedhes Iwerdhon yth esen vy ow synsi meur anodho dhe ran a’n Tiredh Ughel. Yma an rannyans ma yn Kernow. Kyn na yllir mones moy es pymp po hwegh milder a-dhiworth an mor, y fyth unn enep ow mires tro ha’n Kledh, ha’n enep arall ow mires tro ha’n Dyghow. Rag henna y fydh an gwynsow eno ow mones a-dhiworth an Arthros, mes war an tu arall, was arvor an Dyghow, y’th esa palmwydh tevys.
Yw henna lowr?


The Rising of the Moon

Many cities have been part of my life... London... and many cities where I have never been... Jerusalem, Rome, Berlin... But when I was a boy in North Cornwall, Dublin was the city on the horizon.
The Irish radio was stronger than the Home Service very often. It would depend on the weather in truth. And also we saw that wonderful film, The Rising of the Moon, in the little cinema that was in Delabole.
There were three stories in it, one in the countryside that was a very Cornish story, except for the Irish accents, about a man who preferred to go to prison than apologise to a man he struck for calling him a liar.
The second one was about people who were trying to wait for a train. There was a little station at the time, before Doctor Beeching. I remember running there hoping to see the Six-Five Special. That was the first programme about pop music on the BBC. We hadn’t got a television, but I remember seeing the Six-Five Special with Pete Murray presenting in my friend’s house, with the Six-Five Special’s coming down the line, the Six-Five Special’s right on time, but the Six-Five Special didn’t come to Delabole. Anyway, the third one was based on a play by Lady Gregory, but the period had been changed to the period of the War of Independence. There was a very, very dark atmosphere in it. It terrified me.
Now that I’ve got hold of the DVD, almost sixty years afterwards, I know now that it was a comedy, after a very Irish mode.
After that I wanted to go there, and I used to listen to the Irish radio. I liked the stories about cowboys on the Irish radio. I must admit that I heard Irish long before I heard Cornish, which is a very strange thing to say. That is, when I reached Ireland I was considering it as part of North Cornwall. There’s this division in Cornwall. Although one cannot go more than five or six miles from the sea, one face looks towards the North, and the other face looks towards the South. Therefore the winds there are from the Arctic, but on the other side there are palm trees growing.
Is that enough?