| Editorial 10th Anniversary Issue |
 Almost exactly ten years ago in September 1997 the first issue of Cambria appeared. A day later, with a wild sense of euphoria and hope, the ‘Yes or Wales’ campaign carried the day in the devolution referendum, and Wales won its own Assembly. We are proud to have grown in tandem with the new Wales.
Looking at our first issue again, I think it is one of the best we have produced. It has some glorious photographs and challenging, thought-provoking articles which are as pertinent today a...
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| Martin Tinney Gallery Exhibition |
Martin Tinney celebrates five years at St. Andrew's Crescent with an exhibition of important 20th Century and Contemporary Welsh Art from 21st September - 20th October. If you haven’t been to the Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff’s St Andrew’s Place then it is a visit all Welsh art lovers should certainly make. The envy of many other galleries, its polished floors and knocked-through, wide-open, brilliant-white space radiates light to provide a pristine setting for the art....
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| World Wide Welsh Award |
The international committee of Anrhydedd Cymry’r Cyfanfyd – The Worldwide Welsh Award decided unanimously that this year's award should go to author Jan Morris ‘for her exceptional and outstanding contribution to Welsh culture, heritage and letters.’
Dr Arturo Roberts, publisher of Ninnau, the North-American Welsh newspaper and international coordinator of the committee said “When we decide on the recipient of the award, we take into account the contribution that...
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| Byron Rogers wins |
Cambria’s BYRON ROGERS awarded 2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Part of the text of Byron Rogers’s acceptance speech at the Edinburgh Festival in August, after being awarded the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography with The Man Who Went into the West (Aurum), his acclaimed biography of R.S.Thomas. James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are Scotland's most prestigious - and the Britain’s oldest - literary awards. Previous winners include: Lytton Strachey, ...
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| A Welsh Pilgrim |
Every Sunday for almost seventeen years the late Mr Tim Lewis would drive me up from Brechfa to the mountainside church of Llanfihangel Rhos-y-corn.
It was a journey that tested the nerves, partly because the road was narrow and winding, but also because Tim was a consummate story-teller and whenever he remembered some particularly exciting or scandalous incident he would let go of the steering wheel and start waving his arms about. Somehow we never quite disappeared down a precipice or over the...
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| DAI-aspora |
It’s probably because I suffer from Selective Ethnocentric Dyslexia that for years I would read and write ‘Diaspora’ as ‘Daiaspora’, blissfully smiling like a pig in dung at the good grace of the Greeks to create a word using the Welsh diminutive of Dafydd to describe a world-wide age-old phenomenon.
I was incorrect of course, but at the same time possibly not wrong either. After all, isn’t every community’s Diaspora a special, unique and more wholesome ...
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| Llantarnam Abbey |
The village of Llantarnam, situated a few miles outside Newport in south-east Wales is in an area steeped in history.
Eight centuries ago, because of its tranquil location, it was the chosen site for one of the few Cistercian monasteries established in the country. The abbey was founded by a member of the Welsh nobility, Hywel ap Iorweth, Lord of Caerleon. In 1179, he declared: “Be it known to all the faithful of the Church of God that I, Hywel ap Ioweth, son of Owen, for the salvation of ...
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| Celtic Festival in Lorient |
A special report on the Festival Interceltique, Lorient, Brittany by Rhodri Pugh
The 37th Festival Interceltique of Lorient, this year attracted more than 800,000 visitors and 4,500 singers, musicians, jazz and rock groups, pipers and drummers, artists sculptors, dancers and writers - writes Rhodri Pugh.
The festival, from 3rd to the 12th August is the continent’s largest celebration of Celtic culture, where lovers of all things Celtic assemble from all over the world. In addition to repr...
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| Language Act |
Quite a few language enthusiasts will be feeling pretty sore when they see the government proposals for a new language Act due after the Assembly returns in September. To be presented and shepherded through Cardiff and Westminster until they become law by none other than Plaid group deputy leader Rhodri Glyn Thomas, the bill will fall a mile short of what Cymdeithas yr Iaith have been demanding.
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| Coalition Politics |
Two very-pleased political party leaders stood side by side on the steps of the Senedd in Cardiff Bay.
Both had achieved much of what they wanted. But how long will their smiles remain? For two years, is the probable answer from Rhodri Morgan. That is the probable period of time he intends to stay as First Minister. But for his new coalition partner Ieuan Wyn Jones, twelve hours may have been the correct answer.
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