TeamWales: Links
Dressel's pub | |
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This is a new web-site, created for the new management (Ben and Gia) at Dressel's, and replaces the original website which some ill-intentioned scoundrel hacked into a couple of years ago and posted unwarranted and disparaging remarks.
SDSoGSL on-line
SDSoGSL is also 'on-line' at this MySpace site. Check it out
Welsh Directory
A directory of sites with a Welsh flavour (that's "flavor" for those in the USA)
Photographs from Wales
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Dozens of great photographs categorized by area, theme, content with descriptions in English or Welsh - your choice.
Welsh Mystery Novels
Rhys Bowen, a UK-born author, has written (1997-2006) a delightful series of mystery novels set in the small North Wales town of Llanfair featuring the exploits of it's local 'bobby', constable Evan Evans (Evan-the-Law).
Those with a heritage involving rural Wales will easily find their minds transported to the crime-scenes that Ms. Bowen portrays. This could be a great way to relax, sitting in front of a warm fire, during the forthcoming winter nights.
All of her books are listed at the web-site and can be obtained through your local Public Library System.
Arizona Welsh!
A very good web-site by the group out there in the desert!
Hey, its DRY heat they have - not like our SWEATY one in St. Louis!
Give 'em a visit
Good videos of Wales
A DVD (for about $25 - w/o S&H) can be purchased, but there is some FREE excellent U-Tube film footage - including one (8 or 9 minutes) of life in Wales in the late 40s or 50s - maybe even pre-WWII - I'm not sure.
World Wide Welsh
Best described by the site itself:
"Welcome to ForumWales / Croeso i ForumWales
Living in Wales? Interested in Wales? Just want to talk about Wales? ForumWales will help you meet others just like you!
To join in, simply register FREE of charge and start communicating. Discussion in both English and Welsh is encouraged."
Contains 'blogs', photos, discussions, and audio of words / phrases in Welsh. Welsh people all over the world contribute here.
Give it a shot!
Welsh Folk Music
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A direct link to Frank Hennessy at BBC Wales' "Celtic Heart Beat" - live each Saturday and accessible during the following week. Contains a LOT of good music / songs of the Welsh / Celtic genre.
All about Wales
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There isn't much that this site has left out!
Famous people, places, foods, songs, etc. Simply click on the item that catches your fancy and learn plenty within the site or through its links. You're off - and surfing all around Wales once you wet your feet here.
Look around and smell the roses - or in the case of Wales, the daffodils, its national flower.
Who's who??
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In Wales, the frequent repetition of names in a small community often lead to the need for an 'attachment' of an occupation (or trait) to distinguish among people of identical or similar name.
For example, two fellows named John Evans may have been 'tagged' as 'Evans-the-Bread' (a Baker) and 'Evans-the-Death' (an undertaker).
It was also common (if not very imaginative) for men to carry their father's surname as their forename. For example: Evan Evans, Hugh Hughes, or Thomas Thomas; one very famous hymn-writer was William Williams (Pantycelyn).
In more ancient Welsh times, the appearance of "ap" in a name was comparable to the prefixes "Mac-" (or " Mc-"), "O'-", "Fitz-" and the suffixes "-son", "-sen", "-inho" to indicate that the person was 'the son of' another.
For example, someone called Huw ap Rhys was 'Huw, the son of Rhys'; or a William ap Harry was . . . well you get it!
However, as time passed, some contractions and anglicizations occurred such that the 'ap Rhys' became 'Price' (or 'Preece'), 'ap Harry' became 'Parry' and the duplicative 'Hugh ap Hughes' became 'Hugh Pugh'!
Anyway, no matter what the origin of their names, here are dozens upon dozens of famous Welsh people - explore and enjoy.
Owain Glyndwr was the last true Welsh-born Prince of Wales - way back in the 14th and 15th century!
Welsh Castles
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These castles reflect historic events in Wales more than 1,000 years before Columbus even thought of launching his boats!!
Wales - take a look!
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It speaks for itself - see the beauty of the scenery and the historic places in this land (this CAMBRIA, this CYMRU) of your ancestors.
Dylan Thomas
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If you are Welsh - you KNOW this guy!!
My dad threw snow-balls at him; I played cricket across the road from his house at Cwmdonkin Drive; my wife managed his wife's bank account!
He was a Swansea kid with the wit to dream of LLAREGGUB - the truly Welsh among us will recognize the wry humor of this ficticious name.
LlanfairPG!!
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Check this out!!
A genuine SMALL town with a BIG name!!
Wales - Land of Rugby
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If you are Welsh (or maybe even NOT Welsh, but have played or watched rugby), you'll know that Wales (as well as being the land of Song) is the Land of Rugby - and the TRUE Prince of Wales (at least in 1976-1978) was Gareth Edwards!
Welsh Newspaper
Subscription to this publication (Ninnau) can be bought for about $25 - or you can visit the website and download (free) a list of 'Welsh Events' across the USA for the entire year. Very useful if planning a summer trip to Ohio or Pennsylvania where there are places spilling over with Welsh folk!
Llywelyn's Pub(s)
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3 locations for your pub-crawling pleasure!
Original in the CWE - with patio out back,
One in Soulard,
A third in Webster.
Check 'em all out - but not in one 'crawl', please.
Genealogy and more
This site has some excellent materials - including what you may want to research your ancestry.
Welsh Love Spoons
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A bilingual presentation of many, many variations of these 'spoons' along with 'the meaning' of each feature of the spoons.
Welsh Jokes
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This site was brought to my attention by a humorist school acqaintance of mine (back in the mid-1950s) who used to delight in chanting (about and TO, his neighbor) - in somewhat Ogden Nash style:
"Old man Mr. Waldron has a head like cauldron!"
I'll NEVER forget that. Thanks, Christie!
Dewi the Dragon
This is a child's tale, written by my old school friend, Christie Davies, a professor-emeritus at the Sociology Department of the University of Reading, England.
The author is not only he of 'Mr Waldron' fame, but has penned many works analyzing the subject of 'humor'.
His 'bio' can be found at:
http://www.spirs.rdg.ac.uk/Sociology/sociobiogs/Davies.html