... and culture to escape the consequences of the rape of Wales by English industrialists during the early 1800's heyday of the industrial revolution. Industry was drawn to Wales in the pursuit of the iron, steel, slate and coal buried under ancient ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jan 18 2014 - 3:25pm - 0 comments
... Irish Peatlands , and important peatland areas in Wales and Brittany. ...
Alastair Kneale - Nov 17 2018 - 3:39pm
... brutal means in Alba (Scotland), Breizh (Brittany), Cymru (Wales), Éire (Ireland), Kernow (Cornwall) and Mannin (Isle of Man). ... Books 1847 - a British Government report on Education in Wales. The report was met with outrage in Wales because of the arrogant remarks ...
Alastair Kneale - Sep 21 2022 - 4:12pm
... happened. At the heart of the landmark “Welsh Language (Wales) Measure – 2011” is the provision that companies doing business in Wales must provide the same services in Welsh as they do in English. If this ...
Emmett McIntyre - Feb 13 2014 - 10:56pm - 0 comments
... tongue from the adverse effects of continued migration into Wales is reaching a boiling point and follows up on news reports earlier this ... Welsh speaking areas. This week the web site "This Is South Wales" has a report under the headline "Fears For Welsh Langauge - If More Land ...
Emmett McIntyre - Nov 2 2013 - 3:46pm - 0 comments
... a medium of instruction in primary and secondary schools in Wales. If this were to happen it would have huge consequences, not only for the ... the medium of Welsh…Even Carwyn Jones (First Minister of Wales) has said that second language Welsh is a failure. Of course change in ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jun 17 2015 - 3:24pm - 0 comments
... was couched in the usual reluctant BBC manner. North Wales’ Police and Crime Commissioner, Arfon Jones, was one of those who ... of the Welsh language is effective and beneficial to Wales is a perfectly legitimate subject of a debate. “We should have ...
Mair Williams - Aug 24 2017 - 12:39pm
... people speak Celtic languages here or in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and in Brittany shows there is a commonality that goes back ...
Alastair Kneale - Aug 8 2017 - 1:37pm
... League. They draw attention to the massive reaction across Wales to the vandalism of the stone wall with the words "Cofiwch Dryweryn" ... had the opposite impact, galvanising communities all over Wales: DEFACING TRYWERYN SLOGAN BACKFIRES Defacing a Welsh ...
Alastair Kneale - Apr 29 2019 - 2:20pm
... Owain Glyndŵr’s attack on Ruthin and other towns in north Wales Henry led an army into Wales and Glyndŵr’s lands were confiscated. Owain Glyndŵr and his forces ...
Mair Williams - Jan 7 2018 - 6:19pm