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April 29
Good idea!
April 28
Kathleen O'Brien Blair added a blog post
Go here http://www.gfo.org/insider/insiderMay09.pdf Look for American Welsh Heritage. I'm going to send the editor a note with the direct link to the Eisteddfod page here and asking her to drop the last "d" "AMERICAN WELSH HERITAGE Celebration Com…
April 28
This group is established to promote and follow the career of Rhydian Roberts focusing on the US and Canada, but not limited to those two countries
April 21
Ha! I'm English, Scot, Welsh, I tell people I'm of mixed race and that's the box I always tick on forms. ;)
March 1
Wow, that's so cool about Columbia, I didn't know that. I love their stuff. :D
March 1
Hmmm, well, there is Beowulf - the latest Seamus Heaney translation is pretty good, but it's Anglo-Saxon, not Welsh. And there is Cúirt an Mhean Oíche, - The Midnight Court, by Brian Merriman - though it's in Old Irish, and about Aoibheal rather tha…
February 27
Direct link here:- http://www.myspace.com/fblair Diolch for posting Kathleen.
February 26

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I have Welsh ancestry as well as some Cousin Jack's in the family on the my mother's side. All my father's people are Gaels. Consequently I keep both the Brythonic Traditionalism and Gaelic Traditionalism of both sides of the family.

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Genealogical Forum of Oregon May newsletter lists Left Coast Eisteddfod

Go here http://www.gfo.org/insider/insiderMay09.pdf

Look for American Welsh Heritage. I'm going to send the editor a note with the direct link to the Eisteddfod page here and asking her to drop the last "d"

"AMERICAN WELSH HERITAGE
Celebration Coming to Portland
The Left Coast Eisteddfodd (sic) will be held in Portland, Oregon on August 22, 2009 at the McMenamins Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W. Burnside. An Eisteddfodd is a celebration of all things Welsh including an online talent competition. To v… Continue

Posted on April 28, 2009 at 12:38pm —

Kathleen O'Brien Blair

The SpousalBear is a sweet guy

My husband Frank is a true Renaissance Man. He's a Geek, Historian, Professional musician, Silversmith, and Woodworker. He's also the Enterprise Architect for Columbia Sportswear; that's what's not-so-euphemistically referred to as 'a day job'. Columbia is a great place for artists to work and they sponsor an art show once a year for their artist-employees to be able to show their work. Frank sold several bracelets and Absinthe spoons this year.

Anyway, we're both really into our cultural herit… Continue

Posted on February 26, 2009 at 11:10pm — 3 Comments

Kathleen O'Brien Blair

Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting 2009

California Celtic Colloquium #31

Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting

12-15 March 2009

370/371 Dwinelle Hall

University of California, Berkeley

THURSDAY

4:00-4:15 Welcome by Dean

Session 1:

4:30 Aled Jones, "Towards the Genre of Prophecy"

5:00 Tina Chance, "A Dream that was Rome: Reading Breuddwyd Maxen Wledig . .
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5:30 Antone Minard, "The Waterfowl Wife in Early Irish Literature"

6:00 Charles MacQuarrie, "The Nature of Manawydan"

6:30-6:45 BREAK

6:45 Dorothy… Continue

Posted on February 9, 2009 at 1:02am —

Kathleen O'Brien Blair

2001 Welsh census showed increase of Welsh speakers in Wales for first time in 100 years!

I wonder what's happened in the last 8 years? - Kathleen

From this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/2755217.stm

Results of the latest census show a significant increase in the numbers of people speaking Welsh.

Full census figures published on Thursday reveal that more than 20% of people in Wales now speak Welsh. Figures revealed that 20.5% - more than one in five - of the population are Welsh speakers. This compares with 18.5% of Welsh speakers in the 1991 census.

In addition… Continue

Posted on February 4, 2009 at 8:06pm — 7 Comments

Kathleen O'Brien Blair

Homeless veterans and cultural archetypes

So, I was thinking about this the last several days. I participated in a count of homeless people here in our county (Yamhill County, Oregon) and many among them are veterans.

The mythologies of the Gaelic and Brythonic cultures, are all commonly lumped into the catchphrase "Celtic." I wish they wouldn't do that, but, there it is. Semantic peculiarities and peccadilloes aside, these myths, and the archetypes they describe, are particularly apropos for homeless veterans.

The particular archetyp… Continue

Posted on February 4, 2009 at 8:00pm —

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At 10:41pm on February 4, 2009, Brian y Tarw Llwyd said…
I seem to have missed greeting you when you first came here, so please allow me to correct that unintentional oversight now: Hail and well met! Welcome to Americymru, soon to be your favorite website! Hopefully :-) Check out the various interest groups, and the videos and music... wonderful stuff. And there are a lot of nice people here too. Hope you like what you find! Blessings to you this day.
Brian y Tarw Llwyd
At 11:46pm on August 20, 2008, Ceri Shaw said…
Hi Kathleen..Portland Oregon here. Originally from Cardiff. Croeso i Americymru. Feel free to invite any friends that you think would be interested in joining. The network has many features which allow people with a shared love of Wales to communicate and share photos, videos, links, blogposts etc and we will be adding new features from time to time. Make yourself right at home. Once again...

Croeso!

Ceri Shaw
 
 

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