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A PUBLIC heritage event will be held at Canolfan Hermon this Saturday, July 3 - starting 10am. The Song of the Golden Road workshop is the third in a series of walking and talking workshops exploring the life worlds and landscapes of the Preselis. Martin Johnes, Professor of Modern History at Swansea University and author of a number of books on Welsh history including Wales: Englands Colony? which was turned into a BBC television series, will lead the workshop. Martin grew up in Hermon...

Darren Hughes with his Native Places work, which features a variety of artistic processes. AN ANGLESEY artist has used charcoal and oil paintings to portray the land and shape of the island where he grew up. Darren Hughes’s latest exhibition Native Places approaches the landscape with contemporary realism and honesty with mixed media drawings and drypoint etching prints that feature Bethesda, Pentraeth and the Irish Sea. “The starting point for the whole body of work was a reassessmen...

The Welsh mountain battle: Why Snowdon should switch to Yr Wyddfa

Comment Wales deserves more respect – its language is as old as the hills and an indelible part of its charm Grumbles about Welsh flight announcements have reignited divisions. But embracing the language is part of the wonder of a holiday here 15 April 2021 • 4:14pm Despite its unique language, many talk about Wales as if it were just an appendage to England Credit: Getty When you cross the Severn Bridge and see the fins of the Brecon Beacons raised in a wave of welcome, it’s a sign you h...

Jeudi, 18 Février, 2021 - 09:58 As a toddler, I’d sit on dad’s lap as we worked through my picture book, labelling various objects and characters until we reached gwrach (witch), at which point I’d been trained to declare, ‘Mam!’ My family has the freedom to communicate in not one but two languages – English and Welsh. But I was shocked to learn last week that Welsh is still listed as a ‘foreign language’ on the UK Government’s website. Especially since Welsh is one of Britai...

A FORMER newspaper reporter is poised to publish his debut novel based on a story he covered on his old north Pembrokeshire beat.

com-) + nghanu + cum with, together, and canō I sing From this etymology, we can derive the nearest literal English equivalent of cynghanedd to be "harmony," "concord," or "consonance," though an alternative translation of "chiming" is frequently used, due to the words pleasing resemblance to the word "rhyming." Rules A line containing cynghanedd will typically have seven syllables and either one or two caesura in it; a caesura is a place in the line where a new repetition or iteration of a...