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A little in Welsh – promoting the language in our valley communities
GUTO DAVIES asks how Welsh language-speaking can be promoted in areas where English tends to prevail and Welsh speakers are lacking in confidence
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DIANE ABBOTT debunks claims made politicians drumming up support for an enhanced militarisation of the British economy
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The growing argument that welfare must be sacrificed for ‘security’ is built on nothing but myth, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Esmond Romilly horrified Britain’s Establishment by turning from privileged schoolboy to anti-fascist fighter, writes MAT COWARD
THE Hedley Gibbard Memorial Lecture, organised by Cymdeithas y Cyfieithwyr Cymru / The Association of Welsh Translators and Interpreters, at this year’s National Eisteddfod in Pontypridd, was delivered by local Communist Party member and trade unionist Guto Davies. The following is a translated precis of the lecture.
The title of my talk, “A Little In Welsh,” is in contrast to the powerful past slogan of the Welsh Language Society “Everything In Welsh — Popeth yn Gymraeg” and reflects the struggle to promote the language on its boundaries, in its no-man’s land where it is not at its strongest.
I have worked and lived in this community, which is mainly English-speaking, but which bears an affinity towards a language which has been lost to so many of the population.
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