Ifor ap glyn biography of albert

  • Ifor ap Glyn will talk about the life, work and remarkable legacy of Hedd Wyn. Ifor ap Glyn.
  • Ifor ap Glyn, the National Poet of Wales, writes a new poem for Front Row to mark St David's Day, called Cymraeg Ambarel (Umbrella Welsh).
  • Today we take a look at “Intermezzo”, Ifor ap Glyn's poem celebrating 75 years of the Welsh National Opera.

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    S4C repeats documentary about American slavery and the Welsh

    Tomorrow night (Thursday 18 June) S4C is re-showing America Gaeth a'r Cymry (22.00 English subtitles) a documentary about the Welsh in amerika and their relationship with slavery, to coincide with the current events of the Black Lives Matter movement. 

    In the three-part series, Professor Jerry Hunter of the School of Welsh and Celtic Studies researches the history of the Welsh and slavery in the USA.

    The series tells the story of the involvement of Welsh-Americans (Welsh-speaking Americans, to be precise) with slavery, from its inception to the end of slavery in the USA in 1865.

    Thursday’s first episode begins with the early period, a period when some Welsh immigrants in America, such as the poet Goronwy Owen of Anglesey, owned slaves. Some Welsh people in the 18th century raised their voices against the immoral regime, people such as the poet Iolo Morganwg and the radical thinker Morgan John Rhys. 

    By the 1830s /

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    Hugh Jackman, National Poet of Wales Ifor ap Glyn, Richard Bean

    Hugh Jackman talks to Kirsty Lang about his final portrayal of the super-hero Wolverine in the film Logan.

    Ifor ap Glyn, the National Poet of Wales, writes a new poem for Front Row to mark St David's Day, called Cymraeg Ambarel (Umbrella Welsh).

    One Man, Two Guvors playwright Richard Bean on The Hypocrite, set in Hull during the English Civil War, which opens tonight at the Hull Truck Theatre.

    Katharine Quarmby reviews the film Trespass Against Us, which stars Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson as travellers in the West Country.

    Cymraeg Ambarel

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    Mae'n bwrw mor aml

    mewn byd drycinog,

    ond mae dy ffyn bob tro yn cloi'n

    gromen berffaith, uwch fy mhen;

    a than dy adain, caf hedfan yn unfraich,

    drwy ddychymyg yr hil.

    I rai, rwyt ti'n 'cau'n deg ag agor,

    ond o'th rolio'n dynn,

    mi roddi sbonc

    i'n cerddediad fel Cymry;

    ac mi'th godwn yn lluman main

    i dy

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    Introducing Video of the Week from Wales Arts Review. We’ll be showcasing some of the best new art in Wales with a new video shared every week. From music to skådespel and everything in between, videos will not be limited bygd medium.Today we take a look at “Intermezzo”, Ifor ap Glyn’s poem celebrating 75 years of the Welsh National Opera.

    To mark the 75 years since its first performance, the Welsh National musikdrama commissioned Intermezzo, a poem bygd Ifor ap Glyn, the National Poet for Wales. Read bygd a host of prominent Welsh voices in this special film, the poem chronicles the rik history of the WNO, from its humble beginnings at the end of the Second World War (‘From a house in Llandaf North, to a chapel in Crwys Road, aria bygd aria, peace was sung anew and then wandered the world over’) to its present-day ställning eller tillstånd as an opera company known the world over. 

    The poem also makes a nod to the impacts of Covid on the Welsh arts – and the prospect of a brighter future post-pandemic (‘B