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Sunday, May 3, 2015

Cerrig firefighter solves 10-year-old mystery of Patagonian bones








A FIREFIGHTER from North Wales hit the headlines in Argentina when she helped bring a 10-year mystery to a close.
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Saturday, May 2, 2015

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Monday, December 29, 2014

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29th December
Patagonian settlers building a road to the Andes, near 'Afon y Mynach' in 1888. In the middle wearing a white coat stands Llwyd ap Iwan (son of Michael D Jones, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia), who was murdered on the 29th December, 1909, some say by Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid but more probably by members of their gang. He was shot dead in the co-operative store, of which he was supervisor, close to his home at Nant y Pysgod, about thirty miles from Esquel in the foothills of the Andes.
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Friday, December 26, 2014

On the Feast of Steven!!!!

Christmas Customs in Wales. Gwyl San Steffan (St. Stephens Day; Boxing Day - December 26th) The day after Christmas Day was celebrated in a way unique to Wales and included the tradition of "holly-beating" or "holming." Young men and boys would beat the unprotected arms of young females with holly branches until they bled. In some areas it was the legs that were beaten. In others, it was the custom for the last person to get out of bed in the morning to be beaten with sprigs of holly. These customs, which apparently to bring good luck during the coming year died out before the end of the 19th century (luckily for young girls and those who like a lie-in!)
The History of Wales
Christmas Customs in Wales.
Gwyl San Steffan (St. Stephens Day; Boxing Day - December 26th)
The day after Christmas Day was celebrated in a way unique to Wale...s and included the tradition of "holly-beating" or "holming." Young men and boys would beat the unprotected arms of young females with holly branches until they bled. In some areas it was the legs that were beaten. In others, it was the custom for the last person to get out of bed in the morning to be beaten with sprigs of holly. These customs, which apparently to bring good luck during the coming year died out before the end of the 19th century (luckily for young girls and those who like a lie-in!)
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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Welsh in Penn.

"Cambria in Pensylvania"
Born on this day 1760 in Llanbradach, near Caerphilly - Morgan John Rhys - radical evangelical Baptist minister who preached the principles of the French Revolution, against slavery and in favour of the reform of parliament. In 1794 he grew tired of the repression in Britain and emigrated to America where he changed his surname to Rhees and established the Welsh colony of Cambria in Pensylvania.
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Cambria, was the first real Welsh colony , in which the Welsh language, culture and religion was maintained in a community with a distinct Welsh identity. Here Rhys established his own religious denomination and a newspaper, The western sky.
The history of Welsh emigration to Pensylvania, had begun, when Charles II was restored to the English throne in 1660, he instigated a wave of religious intolerance which threatened the rights of several groups including Quakers and Baptists, to worship in the way that they chose. Significant numbers of people - in some cases, whole communities - began to leave Wales. The Court of Great Sessions in Bala, North Wales, threatened to burn Quakers, prompting the Welsh Quakers to acquire land from William Penn, which was known as The Welsh Tract (approximately 40,000 acres) in and around what is now Pennsylvania. The project envisioned as a kind of "Holy Experiment," involved an oral understanding with William Penn and the Society of Friends (a pact made in England before the Welsh sailed to the New World). However this agreement was never put into writing and later became a source of bitter controversy between Penn and the Welsh Quakers.
Then in 1683, Baptists from mid and west Wales also made the journey to Philadelphia, where they settled and acquired 30,000 acres of land on the banks of the Delaware River. But it was Morgan Rhys's Cambria that is considered to be the first real Welsh colony in which the Welsh language, culture and religion was maintained in a community with a distinct Welsh identity.
Many towns in the area are named after places in Wales, such as North Wales, Lower Merion, Upper Merion, Bala Cynwyd, Radnor and Haverford Township, others such as Tredyffrin and Uwchlan, have independent Welsh names.
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Thursday, November 27, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving: Did you know that 20% of those who came on  the Mayflower were of Welsh background?

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Monday, October 27, 2014

Happy 100th Birthday to one our most beloved writers, Dylan Thomas.

"Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not. And death shall have no dominion". Happy 100th Birthday to one our most beloved writers, Dylan Thomas.


South Wales Evening Post
"Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not. And death shall have no dominion".
Happy 100th Birthday to one our most beloved writers, Dylan Thomas.


27th October Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dylan Thomas. Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27 1914 at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive in Swansea. Dylan's father was an English Literature professor at the local grammar school and would often recite Shakespeare to Thomas before he could read. He loved the sounds of nursery rhymes, foreshadowing his love for the rhythmic ballads of Hopkins, Yeats, and Poe. Although both of his parents spoke fluent Welsh, Thomas and his older sister never learned the language, and Thomas wrote exclusively in English. Thomas was a neurotic, sickly child who shied away from school and preferred reading on his own. He read all of D. H. Lawrence's poetry, impressed by vivid descriptions of the natural world. Fascinated by language, he excelled in English and reading but neglected other subjects. He dropped out of school at sixteen to become a junior reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. By December of 1932, he left his job at the Post and decided to concentrate on his poetry full time. It was during this time, in his late teens, that Thomas wrote more than half of his collected poems. In 1934, when Thomas was twenty, he moved to London, won the Poet's Corner book prize, and published his first book, 18 Poems, to great acclaim. The book drew from a collection of poetry notebooks that Thomas had written years earlier, as would many of his most popular books. During this period of success, Thomas also began a habit of alcohol abuse. Unlike his contemporaries, T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, Thomas was not concerned with exhibiting themes of social and intellectual issues, and his writing, with its intense lyricism and highly charged emotion, has more in common with the Romantic tradition. Thomas describes his technique in a letter: "I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual & critical forces I possess—let it breed another, let that image contradict the first, make, of the third image bred out of the other two together, a fourth contradictory image, and let them all, within my imposed formal limits, conflict." Two years after the publication of 18 Poems, Thomas met the dancer Caitlin Macnamara at a pub in London. At the time, she was the mistress of painter Augustus John. Macnamara and Thomas engaged in an affair, and married in 1937. Despite the passionate love letters Thomas would write to her, the marriage was turbulent, with rumours of both having multiple affairs. In 1940, Thomas and his wife moved to London. He had served as an anti-aircraft gunner but was rejected for more active combat due to illness. To avoid the air raids, the couple left London in 1944. They eventually settled at Laugharne, in the Boat House where Thomas would write many of his later poems. In January 1950, at the age of thirty-five, Thomas visited America for the first time. His reading tours of the United States, which did much to popularize the poetry reading as a new medium for the art, are famous and notorious, for Thomas was the archetypal Romantic poet of the popular American imagination: he was flamboyantly theatrical, a heavy drinker, engaged in roaring disputes in public, and read his work aloud with tremendous depth of feeling and a singing Welsh lilt. Thomas toured America four times, with his last public engagement taking place at the City College of New York. A few days later, he collapsed in the Chelsea Hotel after a long drinking bout at the White Horse Tavern. On November 9, 1953, he died at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City at the age of 39. He had become a legendary figure, both for his work and the boisterousness of his life. He was buried in Laugharne, and almost 30 years later, a plaque to Dylan was unveiled in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey.
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