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3 Reasons Ancient Woodland in Wales Is More Valuable Than Ever
Why is ancient woodland in Wales so rare and valuable? Forests with trees dating back to at least the year 1600 cover only about 2 – 2.5% of the United Kingdom....

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Powerful Ancient Welsh Symbols and Their Meanings
Ancient Welsh symbols trace back to the Celtic tribes of Wales, even before Welsh was spoken. They are closely tied to nature, spirits and deities, warriors and...

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MWY O STRAEON FFRAETH I DDYSGWYR GAN SIÔN TOMOS OWEN
Mae’r arlunydd, cyflwynydd, bardd ac awdur Siôn Tomos Owen yn cyhoeddi ail gyfrol o straeon am fyw yn y Rhondda’r wythnos hon. Mae Y Fawr a’r Fach 2: Mwy o...

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Welsh artists come together for limited vinyl release

Sain Records and independent music website Klust have collaborated to release a bespoke compilation album featuring...
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@ceri-shaw • 3 months ago

Animated comedy series set in Valleys coming to BBC this month

A new animated comedy series set in an Indian takeaway in Ebbw Vale is to to launch this month. Commissioned by BBC...
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Experts share their insights on a wide range of topics for the National Eisteddfod

Subjects include politics, medicine, history and journalism
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@ceri-shaw • 3 months ago

This Day in Welsh History - August 1st

1st August

1st-8th August. The National Eisteddfod of Wales, begins today in Meifod, near Welshpool. The Eisteddfod...

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Welsh Born Experimental Drone-Folk Duo 'Peiriant' New 'Can Idris' single Out Friday
BIOGRAPHY Peiriant are a duo of violin and electric guitar, who play with melody and tonality to create atmosphere and soundscape. Electronic...

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Welsh Born Experimental Drone-Folk Duo 'Peiriant' New 'Can Idris' single Out Friday
BIOGRAPHY Peiriant are a duo of violin and electric guitar, who play with melody and tonality to create atmosphere and soundscape. Electronic...

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Welsh Born Experimental Drone-Folk Duo 'Peiriant' New 'Can Idris' single Out Friday
BIOGRAPHY Peiriant are a duo of violin and electric guitar, who play with melody and tonality to create atmosphere and soundscape. Electronic...

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Welsh Born Experimental Drone-Folk Duo 'Peiriant' New 'Can Idris' single Out Friday
BIOGRAPHY Peiriant are a duo of violin and electric guitar, who play with melody and tonality to create atmosphere and soundscape. Electronic...

@ceri-shaw • 3 months ago

The stunning hotel in Wales ranked one of the best in Europe

A hotel in Wales has been ranked one of the finest in Europe. Palé Hall in Gwynedd was named on The 50 Best Hotels in...
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Watch: Trailer released for gothic horror Starve Acre starring Morfydd Clark

Stephen Price A powerful trailer for the highly anticipated adaptation of gothic horror novel, Starve Acre, starring...
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Ryan Reynolds posts pics of Paul Mullin as Welshpool

When one of the most keenly anticipated movies of the year, Deadpool & Wolverine was released on Friday, fans flocked...
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This Day in Welsh History - July 31st

31st July

On this day 1588, The Spanish Armada was spotted off the coast of England and beacon fires were lit across Wales and...

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Letter from Madison, Wisconsin

Huw Webber Madison perhaps is an unlikely place to teach and celebrate the Welsh language, but that’s exactly what...
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Powerful Ancient Welsh Symbols and Their Meanings

Jaime Conrad - @jaime-conrad
9 Aug 2024

Ancient Welsh symbols trace back to the Celtic tribes of Wales, even before Welsh was spoken. They are closely tied to nature, spirits and deities, warriors and fighting, and the Otherworld. Some symbols, like the red dragon, have become well-known parts of Welsh culture in modern times. Where do ancient Welsh symbols originate? Why are some of the traditional Welsh symbols we see today relatively new in comparison? Ancient symbols of Cyrmu come from the Celts who lived in Britain during the Iron Age. By 600 BC, they had established quite a presence on the island. They were pagans who...

MWY O STRAEON FFRAETH I DDYSGWYR GAN SIÔN TOMOS OWEN

Ceri Shaw - @ceri-shaw
1 Aug 2024

Mae’r arlunydd, cyflwynydd, bardd ac awdur Siôn Tomos Owen yn cyhoeddi ail gyfrol o straeon am fyw yn y Rhondda’r wythnos hon. Mae Y Fawr a’r Fach 2: Mwy o Straeon o’r Rhondda yn rhan o’r gyfres Amdani, ac mae llyfr Siôn yn addas ar gyfer dysgwyr lefel Sylfaen. Mae Siôn yn wyneb cyfarwydd i wylwyr S4C, diolch i Pobol y Rhondda , cyfres oedd yn mynd ar daith trwy Gwm Rhondda, ac roedd ei gyfrol gyntaf o straeon ffraeth am ei blentyndod a’i arddegau yn boblogaidd iawn. Meddai Siôn Tomos Owen: “Pan sgwennes i’r gyfrol gyntaf nôl yn 2018 ges i lawer o hwyl ond ges i...

Welsh Born Experimental Drone-Folk Duo 'Peiriant' New 'Can Idris' single Out Friday

Ceri Shaw - @ceri-shaw
1 Aug 2024

BIOGRAPHY Peiriant are a duo of violin and electric guitar, who play with melody and tonality to create atmosphere and soundscape. Electronic equipment, samples and found objects also add to their semi-improvised pieces, which are spun from grounded ideas. Rose and Dan Linn-Pearl draw from their foundation in folk and classical in addition to post-rock, minimalism and sound art to weave experimental music that is anchored in the Welsh landscape. They play with layers of drone and dissonance, contrasting with songs and pure tones to give a rich and sonorous auditory...

'The Boy From The Coach' By J.A.S. Rees: A Review

Ceri Shaw - @ceri-shaw
28 Jul 2024

The Boy From The Coach is a delight to read. If you have ever wondered how life is lived in the innumerable small pubs and Inns which dot the Welsh countryside this book is for you. The author,, J.A.S. ( Tony) Rees, was a frequent visitor to the pub in the late 40's and 50's when he stayed during the school summer holidays. The pub was owned and run by a relative of his mother, May Morgan, who greeted him every summer, "with a Craven A cigarette lodged at the center of her mouth" . The book provides an insight into many of the colorful aspects of rural village life in Wales at...

Skäl release their raucous debut single 'All of The People' on Friday the 30th of August on Snowdonia Records

Ceri Shaw - @ceri-shaw
27 Jul 2024

Skäl release their raucous debut single 'All of The People' on Friday the 30th of August on Snowdonia Records. ‘All Of The People’ is an urgent, infectious and exciting debut track from Skäl , that bursts out of the speakers on a wave of tremulous guitar hooks, grooving bass lines and quickfire drums, while Ev Kirwan's vocals hook you in with a swaggering confidence as the song spirals into a frenetic guitar anthem and a rollicking crescendo with fantastic carousel of guitar solos. It reminds one of the resplendent early sound of The Stone Roses, they call it a...

The True Fighting Spirit of the Ordovices Tribe

Jaime Conrad - @jaime-conrad
21 Jul 2024

During the Iron Age and Roman Era, the Ordovices tribe lived in what is now south Clwyd and south Gwynedd in North Wales. In addition to parts of Clwyd and Gwynedd, the Ordovices tribes’ territory extended into parts of Hereford, Worcester, and western Shropshire in what is now England. They were great warriors and nearly wiped out an entire Roman regiment. However, even these brave fighters wouldn’t escape Rome’s organized military force by the end. The Iron Age for Wales spans from 800 BC to 48 AD. During this time, Celtic tribal societies occupied the island of Britain. No king or...

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Round Barrows: Bronze Age Wales’ Treasures of the Beaker People

Jaime Conrad - @jaime-conrad
3 Jul 2024

Round barrows, Bronze Age burial sites called “cairns” in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, are ancient graves their creators covered with a mound of earth. There are two types of barrows: long and round. Why are round barrows, Bronze Age burial mounds, often referred to as “cairns” in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales—and is there any difference? The terms “barrow” and “cairn” are sometimes used interchangeably, but they can have different meanings. A barrow is a burial mound from ancient times. The word “barrow” comes from the Old English word “beorg.” Beorg originates from Germanic and is...

Crackshot

Ceri Shaw - @philip-evans
1 Jul 2024

Town Cryer Barry Short took his usual place in the Square of the little South Walian Hamlet of Merthyr Tydfil and ascended a wooden crate. Short by name and short by nature, at 5 foot 4 it was a strange choice of job given his diminutive stature but needs must when the devil calleth and with most of the men having been killed in the Napoleonic Wars there was not that many men to go around -Short or tall.But at least he was more difficult to hit with a musket ball. As he unrolled his parchment written by a quill on velum, Barry summoned up all his vocal strength to announce the...

Nerd World Man

Ceri Shaw - @philip-evans
1 Jul 2024

Poor little Brad Stick was a natural victim. He was only 11 years and had just started going up to the big wide World of the Comprehensive School. Now separated from his earliest friends since Primary School it was a huge culture shock coming from a cossetted little school that he had spent seven years known merely ‘as the Nerd in the corner’. His only friends were imaginary and he was more of a loner than alleged JFK Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald but in the little school he was tacitly accepted and tolerated by his first school peers. His emaciated frame, topped by Michael Gove...

Not Much C.O.P.

Ceri Shaw - @philip-evans
1 Jul 2024

It was December 13th 2023 and the delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference known as C.O.P 28 in Dubai the capital of the United Arab Emirates were just about to conclude matters, when the heavy golden double doors flew open and a size 10 Railtrack Boot appeared followed rapidly by a leg belonging to Welshman Morgan Chamber. “Now hold on everyone......sorry I am late but I am the Official delegate from the Green Party of Wales...and I want to say my piece!” Morgan Chamber, known locally as Mog the Smog, was never one to go or come quietly, as his Fifth Wife on...

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THE ‘DEFINITIVE’ BOOK ON TRYWERYN CHALLENGES ‘LEGENDS’ AND DEEPLY HELD OPINIONS ON THE DROWNING OF THE WELSH VALLEY

Ceri Shaw - @ceri-shaw
6 Jul 2023

BUY IT HERE 'Tryweryn: A New Dawn?' Whatever the complexities surrounding the flooding of Cwm Tryweryn, the construction of Llyn Celyn is widely regarded as a decisive event in Welsh history. The story resonates with Welsh people like no other, and at last, after twenty years of research, author Wyn Thomas has written a detailed study of the story published by Y Lolfa, and questions many widely held views. Two aspects of the Tryweryn story have attracted particular attention and comment in Wales: what is deemed to be Liverpool’s dubious justification for flooding Cwm...

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Attic Theatre Film Festival - An Interview With Glenn Ibbitson

Ceri Shaw - @ceri-shaw
24 Jun 2023

Attic Theatre International Film Festival 2023 Photos: 12 AmeriCymru: Hi Glenn and many thanks for agreeing to this interview. Care to introduce the Attic Film Festival for our readers? Glenn: The inaugural Attic Theatre International Film Festival is organised by the Attic Theatre, a group of artists, actors, writers, film-makers and technicians based in Newcastle Emlyn, West Wales, who are captivated by the medium of film. Our designated event team for ATIFF are; Carole King: an artist, bookbinder and printmaker -and the reluctant leading lady in...

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'Welsh Pioneers of the Skies, Elsa Spencer' by David Dell

AmeriCymru - @americymru
20 Nov 2015

MORE PHOTOS OF ELSA SPENCER HERE Many thanks to guest blogger David Dell for the article below about his aunt Elsa Spencer, "The Worlds' Premiere Parachutist" and for the superb pictures which are from plate photographs and have never been published before. You can buy David's latest book here:- Jack Swan: The Time Travel Disasters dgdfg Cardiff, August 1919. Elsa Spencer getting ready to ascend from Sophia Gardens. Ernest Thompson Willows had the title "The Father of British Airships" and Elsa Spencer, enjoyed the title "The Worlds'...

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Remember, Remember The 4th of November! - Welsh American Chartist John Rees in California

Ceri Shaw - @ceri-shaw
3 Nov 2008

On my return trip from the West Coast Eisteddfod in L.A. in 2011 I was able to break my journey in Hornbrook, CA and take some pictures of John Rees's grave and final resting place. Given that we know he was a stonemason in his youth, did he perhaps make it himself? Certainly it is one of the finest and best preserved monuments in the cemetary. John Rees ( aka Jack the Fifer ) is topical because today ( Nov 4th ) is the anniversary of the ill-fated Chartist march on Newport in which he played a leading role.. The debate as to whether violence can be a legitimate...

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