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[15] [16] [17] The 2019 Eisteddfod in Llanrwst returned to the traditional Maes. The 2020 Eisteddfod was postponed for 12 months because of the international COVID-19 pandemic. This was the first year no Eisteddfod had taken place since 1914, when the event was cancelled at short notice because of the outbreak of the Great War. [18]
2.3.2.5 Townsville. 2.4 South Australia. 2.5 Tasmania. 2.6 Victoria. 2.7 ... These are the results of the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge in Australia, since 1984. National ...
2023 – Nidus Architects and Rural Office, for their extension of a 17-century Welsh longhouse Pen-y-common near Hay-on-Wye [18] 2022 – Sonia Cunningham, for her research project, the Bee Monastry, and a design for a school at Llanidloes. [12] 2019 – Featherstone Young, London, for Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham [19]
The custom of chairing the bard is, however, much older than the modern eisteddfod ceremony, and is known to have taken place as early as 1176. [2] The chairing ceremony of the 1958 National Eisteddfod; the victorious poet was T. Llew Jones [3] The chair posthumously awarded to Taliesin o Eifion at the Wrexham Eisteddfod in 1876 [4]
In Welsh culture, an eisteddfod [a] is an institution and festival with several ranked competitions, including in poetry and music. [2]: xvi The term eisteddfod, which is formed from the Welsh morphemes: eistedd, meaning 'sit', and fod, meaning 'be', [3] means, according to Hywel Teifi Edwards, "sitting-together."
A new bardic crown is specially designed and made for each eisteddfod and is awarded to the winning entrant in the competition for the Pryddest, poetry written in free verse. [2] [3] According to Jan Morris, "When Welsh poets speak of Free Verse, they mean forms like the sonnet or the ode, which obey the same rules as English poesy.
Australia's James O'Connor runs during the second Bledisloe Rugby test between the All Blacks and the Wallabies at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020.
The Welsh motto of the International Eisteddfod, "Byd gwyn fydd byd a gano. Gwaraidd fydd ei gerddi fo", was composed by the poet T. Gwynn Jones in 1946, a few months after the eisteddfod was established. It has appeared on the Eisteddfod trophies, artwork and various artefacts of the eisteddfod for 75 years. [3]