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It’s time for an update!

Mr. Gareth Jones, the Assembly member for Aberconwy wrote to the Assembly’s Heritage Minister, Mr. Alun Ffred Jones. I quote from his letter:

“.....credaf fod dyfodol yr Ysgwrn yn fater o’r fath bwysigrwydd cenedlaethol fel na ddylid dibynnu ar ffynonellau fel arian y Loteri i’w gynnal.....credaf fod cartrefi fel hyn yn bethau y dylai’r Adran Dreftadaeth, trwy Cadw, sicrhau eu dyfodol.

...mi fyddwn i’n dadlau fod hanes Cymry ifanc fel Hedd Wyn a aberthwyd mor ddido… Continue

Almost 300 of you have signed the on line petition urging the The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to grant £50,000 for the upkeep of Hedd Wyn’s home, Yr Ysgwrn at Trawsfynydd. A huge THANK YOU to you all.

So where are we now?

What started my typing finger twitching initially was this statement in the Daily Post:

Yr Ysgwrn – dyfodol du?
(Yr Ysgwrn – a black future?)
“Dywedodd Mr Williams, sy’n 80, ei fod wedi gofyn i Cadw – y corff sy’n edrych ar ol adeiladau hynafol… Continue

RHYFEL – War

Gwae fi fy myw mewn oes mor ddreng
A Duw ar drai ar orwel pell
O’I ol mae dyn, yn deyrn a gwreng
Yn codi ei awdurdod hell.

Pan deimlodd fyned ymaith Dduw
Cyfododd gledd I ladd ei frawd
Mae swn yr ymladd ar ein clyw
A’i gysgod ar fythynod tlawd.

Mae’r hen d… Continue

Petition link: HERE

Whilst at the National Eisteddfod a week or so ago I was told some disturbing news.

I don’t know if you’ve heard of a Private Ellis Humphrey Evans, 15th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers. He was a son of Yr Ysgwrn, a small farm on the side of a mountain by Trawsfynydd, Meirionydd.

His poem “Yr Arwr” (The Hero) won the chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod, Birkenhead.

The Archdru… Continue