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The people of Wales are fiercely proud of who they are, where they come from, and above all, their ability to remain a distinct people in the face of conquest. One such tribe in the south of Wales embodied this determination for the preservation of their people. The...
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BY LEWIS NUNN APR 21, 2019 CARMARTHENSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL This May, Wales Coast Path and Ramblers Cymru will come together to launch a new Wales Coast Path Walking Festival, which will cover the entire iconic coastline of South Wales over 16...
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Gwyneth Lewis applauds Sioned Davies’s stripped-down translation of the Mabinogion The Mabinogion translated by Sioned Davies 293pp, Oxford, £12.99 The Mabinogion (“story of youth”) is the collective name given to 11 medieval Welsh tales...
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10 places to explore Tolkien’s Wales The academic and writer JRR Tolkien (1892 – 1973) loved our language, describing Welsh as ‘…the senior language of the men of Britain.’ He gave Welsh-inspired names to many characters and places in The Lord of the...
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‘Cwtch’ has no literal English translation, but is an emotionally significant embrace and an intrinsically Welsh word that evokes a sense of home. By Kate Leaver for the BBC 25 June 2018 I’m a quarter Welsh. My darling grandmother grew up in the Rhondda Valley, a...
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