enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Traditional Welsh costume - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Welsh_costume

    Welsh Fashions Taken on a Market Day in Wales (R. Griffiths, 1851) Although the traditional costume went out of common use by the middle of the 19th century it was still worn by some women at market and for special events. There were calls for Welsh costume to be revived and used at major national events, especially royal visits.

  3. Barn (Welsh magazine) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_(Welsh_magazine)

    Barn includes articles relating to politics, language, culture, art and sport from Wales, the UK and abroad from a Welsh perspective. The magazine has a prominent place in the history of the Welsh language and the Welsh nationalist movement in the second half of the 20th century, particularly under the editorship of Alwyn D. Rees.

  4. Cymanfa Ganu - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymanfa_Ganu

    A Welsh marketplace, offering Welsh products, artifacts, souvenirs, recordings, and books, is also available during the days of the festival. The Welsh North American Association is the main organizational body responsible for putting on the event.

  5. Culture of Wales - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Wales

    Welsh nationalism (Welsh: Cenedlaetholdeb Cymreig) emphasises the distinctiveness of Welsh language, culture, and history, and calls for more self-determination for Wales, which might include more devolved powers for the Senedd or full independence from the United Kingdom. While a sense of nationhood has existed within Wales for over 1500 years ...

  6. Celtic nations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_nations

    Additionally, 20% of schoolchildren in Wales attend Welsh medium schools, where they are taught entirely in the Welsh language. [14] In the Republic of Ireland , all school children study Irish as one of the three core subjects until the end of secondary school, and 7.4% of primary school education is through Irish medium education, which is ...

  7. Welsh hat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_hat

    The Welsh hat (Welsh: Het Gymreig) worn by women as part of Welsh national costume is a tall hat, similar to a top hat, or the capotain. It is still worn by Welsh folk-dance women, and schoolgirls, in Wales on St David's Day , but rarely on other occasions.

  8. Welsh people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_people

    Welsh remains the predominant language in many parts of Wales, particularly in North Wales and parts of West Wales, though English is the predominant language in South Wales. The Welsh language is also taught in schools in Wales; and, even in regions of Wales in which Welsh people predominantly speak English on a daily basis, the Welsh language ...

  9. National symbols of Wales - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_symbols_of_Wales

    The daffodil is the national flower of Wales, worn on St David's Day (1 March) in Wales. The daffodil may be known as Welsh: cenhinen Bedr (Saint Peter's leek). [24] The Sessile Oak, also called the Welsh Oak is the national tree of Wales. [25] The red kite is sometimes named as the national symbol of wildlife in Wales. [26]