How it was remembered in Cardiff, Wales.
Take a walk down Cardiff’s virtual Irish memory lane...
Between 1996 and 2002 ten editions of this magazine linking Ireland and Wales were published in Cardiff.
All of the articles may be read here online.
An arts gallery in Fishguard is also home to Artswave, a pioneering initiative working to bring Wales and Ireland closer together.
Based in Dublin and founded by but not restricted to Welsh speakers living in Ireland,Draig Werdd,‘The Welsh Society in Ireland’ –, is actively building bridges beween our two nations.
An Ireland / Wales family history initiative...
LEXICELT: the new online Welsh / Irish, Irish / Welsh dictionary from Wales.
Leadership rivals in Northern Ireland as seen from Wales.
In a series of 124 articles Samuel H. Boyd, born in 1919 in Presbyterian
East Belfast in Northern Ireland and now living in Wales, describes the long‑lasting
and possibly still unfinished contest between Gerry Adams of Sinn Féin and Ian Paisley of
the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
His latest article,dated 12 June 2008, is entitled, Historical Chinks — And Strange Bedfellows
Ian Paisley’s “unmelodious and very discordant utterances may be muted, but the maladies he represented still linger on and
many moons will pass before they merge into silence and tolerance”.
Leathanaigh sa Ghaeilge / pages in Irish.
They thought they had no Irish but, for all that, they both knew many Irish words which they regularly used as part of their everyday English language. I believe that I have managed to record most of them here.
If you do not know Irish, try to make time to learn it, for, being the ancestral language of one of the most distinguished and distinctive nations of Europe it must surely be one of its most distinguished and distinctive languages as well.
Tudalennau yn y Gymraeg / pages in Welsh.
Wales is only a quarter of the size of the island of Ireland but, with almost three million people, it is much more
densely populated. Moreover, there are about half a million speakers of Welsh, and because of much more vigorous and
relevant government policies it is significantly more visible and useable than Ireland’s great but largely
marginalised national language.
The destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in early September 2005 horrified the world and the realisation that most of those left behind to fend for themselves were the poor and the powerless. To its great credit this realisation shamed and galvanised America.
Maybe it’s also time to listen to:
Hard times come again no more
Stephen Foster’s majestic anthem to ‘the sigh of the weary’, here sung unforgettably by a great American singer, Nanci Griffith.
Some pages on this site are in French, German, Spanish and Basque
This is a true story is about an incident which took place during a BA flight from Johannesburg to London.
Poems on this site in English and in other languages that help some everyday words bring us to the threshold of a wider reality.
All creatures great and small: includes poems from the wild heart of the world.
I wish I had not already read all of them so that I could again have the unrepeatable pleasure of the first reading of a book to treasure!
Christening, First Communion and Confirmation outfits, accessories and gifts in Canton, Cardiff, Wales.
Articles on Christmas past to get you into mental, emotional and spiritual shape for Christmas present, wherever, whatever and however that Christmas may turn out to be.
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