Abbreviation | Cornish Gorsedd |
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Formation | 1928 |
Founder | Henry Jenner |
Type | Cornish culture Celtic Revival |
Headquarters | Cornwall |
Website | gorsedhkernow.org.uk |
Gorsedh Kernow (Cornish Gorsedd) is a non-political Cornish organisation, based in Cornwall, United Kingdom, which exists to maintain the national Celtic spirit of Cornwall. It is based on the Welsh-based Gorsedd, which was founded by Iolo Morganwg in 1792.
Since 1995, they run the annual Holyer an Gof Publishers Awards "to promote books about Cornwall, set in Cornwall or in Cornish".[1]