More Welsh Lives

Author : Meic Stephens
Publisher : Y Lolfa
ISBN 13 : 1784616354
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Welsh Lives written by Meic Stephens and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Meic Stephens' third collection of 41 obituaries, mostly from The Independent newspaper, recalling the lives of recently-deceased (2012-present) people who have made significant contributes to public life in Wales.

Author : Meic Stephens
Publisher : Y Lolfa
ISBN 13 : 1847716059
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welsh Lives - Gone but Not Forgotten written by Meic Stephens and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of obituaries of eminent Welsh people, first published in The Independent newspaper. Amongst those included are: Stuart Cable, Huw Ceredig, Hywel Teifi Edwards, Owen Edwards, Iris Gower, Ray Gravell, W. J. Gruffydd, J. Geraint Jenkins, Margaret John, T. Llew Jones, Philip Madoc, Eluned Phillips, Aeronwy Thomas, Orig Williams and Stewart Williams.

Author : Louise Welsh
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847673937
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cutting Room written by Louise Welsh and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Unputdownable' Sunday Times 'I was hooked from page one' Guardian When Rilke, a dissolute auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to discover more about the deceased owner who coveted them. Soon he finds himself sucked into an underworld of crime, depravity and secret desire, fighting for his life.

Author : Gilbert Hunter Doble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780708308707
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of the Welsh Saints written by Gilbert Hunter Doble and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeannette Augustus Marks
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gallant Little Wales: Sketches of its people, places and customs written by Jeannette Augustus Marks and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gallant Little Wales: Sketches of its people, places, and customs" by Jeannette Augustus Marks is a delightful exploration of Wales and its unique culture. Marks' keen observations and vivid descriptions paint a vivid portrait of the people, landscapes, and traditions of this enchanting country. This book is a must-read for those seeking to immerse themselves in the rich heritage and enduring charm of Wales, offering a delightful journey through its history, landscapes, and customs.

Author : Jane Cartwright
Publisher : University of Wales
ISBN 13 : 0708319998
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales written by Jane Cartwright and published by University of Wales. This book was released on 2008 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartwright sheds light on the religious women of medieval Wales. Drawing on a wide range of sources from saints' lives and native poetry to holy wells and visual evidence, she explores feminine sanctity, its meanings, manifestations and related iconography in a specifically Welsh context.

Author : Janet Davies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783160209
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Welsh Language written by Janet Davies and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existence of the Welsh-language can come as a surprise to those who assume that English is the foundation language of Britain. However, J. R. R. Tolkien described Welsh as the 'senior language of the men of Britain'. Visitors from outside Wales may be intrigued by the existence of Welsh and will want to find out how a language which has, for at least fifteen hundred years, been the closest neighbour of English, enjoys such vibrancy, bearing in mind that English has obliterated languages thousands of miles from the coasts of England. This book offers a broad historical survey of Welsh-language culture from sixth-century heroic poetry to television and pop culture in the early twenty-first century. The public status of the language is considered and the role of Welsh is compared with the roles of other of the non-state languages of Europe. This new edition of The Welsh Language offers a full assessment of the implications of the linguistic statistics produced by the 2011 Census. The volume contains maps and plans showing the demographic and geographic spread of Welsh over the ages, charts examining the links between words in Welsh and those in other Indo-European languages, and illustrations of key publications and figures in the history of the language. It concludes with brief guides to the pronunciation, the dialects and the grammar of Welsh.

Author : Jane Cartwright
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813221889
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Magdalene and Her Sister Martha written by Jane Cartwright and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Magdalene and Her Sister Martha: An Edition and Translation of the Medieval Welsh Lives provides scholarly editions and English translations of the medieval Welsh versions of the legends of Mary Magdalene and Martha. Described by Victor Saxer as medieval best sellers, these hagiographical tales, which described how Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha survived a perilous sea voyage from the holy land and evangelized Provence, were available in many different Latin and vernacular versions and circulated widely in the medieval West. The texts were translated or adapted into Middle Welsh some time before the mid-fourteenth century: the Middle Welsh Life of Mary Magdalene is extant in thirteen manuscripts and the Middle Welsh Life of Martha is preserved in eight of the same manuscripts. Jane Cartwright makes the Middle Welsh versions available to an international audience for the first time and provides a detailed study of the Welsh manuscripts that contain the texts, a comparison between the different manuscripts versions and a discussion of the wider hagiographical context of the texts in Wales. The volume includes transcriptions, editions and translations of the two Lives based on the oldest most complete extant versions found in the Red Book of Talgarth c. 1400, as well as an additional section of text describing Mary Magdalene s life before Christ s crucifixion from the fifteenth-century Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 27ii. The edition is accompanied by a comprehensive glossary which provides translations of all medieval Welsh words that occur in the texts, an analysis of the development and transmission of the legends, as well as a discussion of the relevance and popularity of these two female saints in late medieval Wales: medieval Welsh poetry, church dedications, and holy wells are also considered.

Author : Elaine Forde
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786836602
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Off-Grid in Wales written by Elaine Forde and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the first detailed ethnography of living off grid in an ecovillage. It is a useful detailed case study and readers can draw comparisons with other things they know about. It examines a relatively new and still innovative Welsh planning policy OPD (the policy) has even had some attention from the World Economic Forum. The book is detailed on the policy so potentially useful for policy makers.

Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Saints written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: