To chair or not to chair?
Post categories: Eisteddfod
| 11:55 UK time, Friday, 6 August 2010
For the final time this week the state trumpet will be sounded to call the Gorsedd procession into the Pavilion. The Chair this offered this year for a poem or a series of poems in full strict metre on the subject of 'Gaining ground'.
Lets hope this year that someone will win after last year's disappointment where no one was awarded the chair. Watch the 2009 ceremony highlights below:
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This year's chair was donated by the University Glamorgan. Read more about it on one of my previous posts..
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Comment number 1.
At 6th Aug 2010, cleverelliejo wrote:I think the organisers of the Eisteddfod need to decide if it is a cultural event or a shameless promotion for S4C and Plaid Cymru.
It seems to have been hugely political feast.
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Comment number 2.
At 8th Aug 2010, giovanni wrote:I agree that the Eisteddfod has become a bit of a political football. Having recently looked up on the internet "Welsh literature" I suddenly found, as an English speaking Welshman, there is a very long history of excellent literature which is being lost due to the continual politicisation of Welsh history. Why doesn't the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ produce and educate all English speakers, English, Irish and Scots, about this wealth of Welsh literature? I think this will give Europe a much bigger picture of Wales rather than the political documentaries produced so far.
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