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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 ...
The National Eisteddfod of Wales (Welsh: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru) is the largest of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales. Its eight days of competitions and performances are considered the largest music and poetry festival in Europe. [ 1 ]
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."
For service to the performing arts, particularly through the Cairns Choral Society and the North Queensland Eisteddfod Council Richard Quin O'Neill: For service to the community, particularly through the Murgon Local Ambulance Committee Alma Doris O'Rourke: For service to nursing, particularly aged care Joseph Thaddeus O'Sullivan, OBE
Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. With a population of 201,313 as of 2024, [1] it is the largest settlement in North ...
The National Eisteddfod crown was first awarded in 1867. [6] The crowning ceremony is presided over by the Archdruid, who invites one of the judges to read the adjudication and judges' comments before announcing the identity of the bard, using only the pen name that the winner has used when submitting the work. Up to this point, no one knows ...
He was involved with James Cook University as the honorary solicitor for the student union (1966–87), chairman of the student union council (1969–72) and a member of the university council (1970–73), and held other community roles as president of the Eisteddfod Council of North Queensland and a board member for the Townsville Hospitals ...
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]