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Y Drych (established in 1851) was a weekly Welsh-language newspaper published by Mather Jones. It contained news and information, focusing on religious matters. [1] In 2003 it merged with Ninnau, another North American Welsh newspaper. [2]
Eirug Wyn was a Welsh satirical novelist who wrote in the Welsh language. He was born Eirug Price Wynne, in Llanbrynmair in Mid Wales, and educated at Brynrefail School and Trinity College, Carmarthen. He subsequently made his home in Y Groeslon in North Wales.
Gomer was the eldest son of Japheth, and father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah, according to the "Table of Nations" in the Hebrew Bible.
Claudia Rufina was a woman of British descent who lived in Rome c. 90 AD and was known to the poet Martial. Martial refers to her in Epigrams XI:53, describing her as "caeruleis [...] Britannis edita". He praises her for her beauty, education and fertility.
Penrhyn Bay is a small town on the northern coast of Wales, in Conwy county borough, within the parish or community of Llandudno, and part of the ecclesiastical parish of Llanrhos. It is a prosperous village, with a cluster of local shops, a pub, a parish church and a modern medical centre with doctors' surgery at the foot of the pass over the shoulder of the Little Orme from Llandudno Bay. Here there is a highschool called Ysgol y Creuddyn and a primary school called Ysgol Glanwydden. It is considered to be a residential suburb of Llandudno lying east of the Little Orme. It adjoins the resort of Rhos-on-Sea and covers a large part of the Creuddyn peninsula. The population of Penrhyn Ward at the 2011 census was 4,883.
Dr. Geraint Bowen was a Welsh language poet and academic.
Aled Haydn Jones is a Welsh radio executive, former presenter and former radio producer. In June 2020, he was appointed head of BBC Radio 1, succeeding Ben Cooper. From 2004 until 2012, he worked on The Chris Moyles Show. He was a presenter on The Surgery on BBC Radio 1 between 2009 until 2015. After a stint as an editor, Jones was appointed Head of Programmes in 2017.
Theophilus Evans was a Welsh clergyman and historian.
Dafydd Glyn Jones is a Welsh scholar and lexicographer, born in the village of Carmel, Gwynedd. He is a specialist in Middle Welsh prose, and his other interests include Welsh history, Robert Jones, Rhoslan, and the life and work of Emrys ap Iwan.
Aled Gruffydd Jones is a Welsh historian and academic. He was Librarian of the National Library of Wales between 2013 and 2015.
Robert Gwin was a Welsh Roman Catholic priest and author.
Medwin Hughes is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and of the University of Wales. He was previously principal of Trinity University College, Carmarthen and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter.
Yny lhyvyr hwnn was the first book to be printed in the Welsh language. It was written by Sir John Price of Brecon, a nobleman and secretary of the Council of Wales and the Marches. He was one of the most important Welsh manuscript collectors of his time, particularly after the dissolution of the monasteries. The publication's main objective was to correct the lack of material, and specifically, the lack of religious material, available in the Welsh language. As Yny lhyvyr hwnn was a Renaissance humanist venture with the aim to put into print the heritage of Welsh literature, Price also included an ABC section and the first Welsh printed alphabet. A record of English, European and Welsh saints was added, as well as a monthly forecast for agricultural purposes. The last section of the pamphlet is a comprehensive religious text, approximating contemporary primer prayer books but sans the canonical hours. These subjects dominated many early Welsh publications. Yny lhyvyr hwnn was printed in London by Edward Whitchurch in 1546.
William Williams (1739–1817) was a Welsh antiquarian, known also as a poet.
Trefor Richard Morgan was a Welsh nationalist activist. He was a businessman who set up an insurance company and also supported efforts around Welsh language schooling.
William Williams was a Welsh Congregational minister, poet and literary critic born at Bryn y Ffynnon, Denbigh. He was one of the leading figures in the Welsh Eisteddfod movement and did much to raise the standards of Welsh literature of his time.
David Lloyd Davies was a Welsh singer and poet. He began composing poetry at an early age, and a number of englynion style poems composed when he was 16 were published in 'Yr Amserau'. He is known to have competed and won prizes at a number of eisteddfodau, and to have won the chair at the Eisteddfod in Bethesda, Caernarfonshire in 1867. In the 1950s and 60s he conducted a number of choirs in the Llanfachreth, Llwyn Einion, Rhyd-y-main, and Towyn areas of Merioneth, and is known to have composed a few pieces of his own music around the same time.
Y Ford Gron (Scranton) was a 19th-century Welsh language periodical first produced in January 1867, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, by Thomas Walter Price and William Aubrey Powell. Its content, literary articles and reviews, and poetry and news from Wales, was aimed at the Welsh American population. The ability of Welsh migrants to America to maintain their language and culture are evident in this publication and others such as Y Drych and Yr Amserau.
Y Drych Cristianogawl is a Welsh publication from the Elizabethan era and the first book to have been printed in Wales.
"The Mirror" is a poem in the form of a cywydd by the 14th-century bard Dafydd ap Gwilym, widely seen as the greatest of the Welsh poets. The poem describes how Dafydd, languishing with lovesickness for an unnamed Gwynedd woman, is appalled by the wasted appearance of his face in the mirror. "The Mirror" can be grouped with several other of Dafydd's poems, possibly early ones, set in Gwynedd, or alternatively with the many poems in which he expresses his love for a woman he calls Morfudd. It has been called "perhaps Dafydd's greatest masterpiece in the genre of self-deprecation".