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  • Bu tipyn o sôn yn y wasg yn ddiweddar am sgiliau ‘dawn dweud’ neu ‘medrau llafar’, neu ‘oracy’, i ddefnyddio’r gair Saesneg anhardd – y gallu i fynegi eich hun mewn ffordd rugl a gramadegol, ac i wrando ar yr…

  • How many Swansea people, when they stroll along the sea wall past the Observatory (the Tower of the Ecliptic) in the Maritime Quarter stop to look closely at the diminutive building that sits on its own on the other side…

  • If you’re in love with green – I mean chlorophyll-saturated green, the lightest and deepest greens that nature can offer – there are fewer better places to find it than north-west Carmarthenshire.  To wander through the fields and woods on…

  • What connects the histories and cultures of India and Wales?  As it turns out, a complex nexus of links that have intertwined for centuries and continue to do so today.   This is the theme of Tigers and dragons, a truly…

  • Cyhoeddodd y diweddar John Davies yn 2010 lyfr o’r enw Cymru: y 100 lle i’w gweld cyn marw, gyda lluniau gwych gan Marian Delyth.   Wrth i’r blynyddoedd wibio heibio, dwi’n dechrau becso am y bylchau personol sy’n bod o hyd…

  • This week we spent a few hours in Avebury in Wiltshire.  The modern village sits beside (and partly upon) the largest Neolithic stone circle in Britain.  It was my first visit since my parents took me to see it in…

  • A couple of weeks ago the campaign group Transport & Environment published a report explaining how the height of SUVs increases the risk of injury and death to pedestrians, especially children.  It seems that the bonnet height of these vehicles…

  • The Welsh Government’s just produced another document on culture.  This one has the snappy title Priorities for culture.  In case you’re interested, there are three priorities: ‘culture brings people together’, ‘celebrating Wales as a nation of culture’ and ‘culture is…

  • When the news came recently that Paul Durcan had died, I pulled from the shelf my copy of his sequence of poems, Crazy about women, published by the National Gallery of Ireland in 1991.  They’re all inspired by paintings in…

  • 1 Introduction Around the turn of the century, when I was working in the National Library of Wales, I came across a smallish painting, in oil on board, called ‘Pontypridd at night’.  It struck me at the time as a…

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