The Chairing of the Bard (Welsh: Cadeirio'r Bardd) is one of the most important events in the Welsh eisteddfod tradition. The most famous chairing ceremony...
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Eisteddfod history was the award of the 1917 chair to the poet Ellis Humphrey Evans, bardic name Hedd Wyn, for the poem Yr Arwr (The Hero). The winner was announced...
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Archdruid (redirect from Archdruid of Wales)
including the Crowning of the Bard, the award of the Prose Medal [cy] and the Chairing of the Bard. Although Iolo Morganwg was the first to preside over the Gorsedd...
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The English term bard is a loan word from the Celtic languages: Gaulish: bardo- ('bard, poet'), Middle Irish: bard and Scottish Gaelic: bàrd ('bard,...
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the history of the Mòd that such an award had been granted to a Gaelic poet from the Scottish diaspora. Chairing of the Bard National Eisteddfod: the...
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Eisteddfod (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
the awarding of a chair is a very old tradition, the now-familiar ceremony of the chairing of the bard who has composed the best awdl dates from the eisteddfod...
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2022. "Pair of One Part Chairs". CCS Bard. Bard College. Archived from the original on 8 August 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022. "Two-Part Chairs, Obtuse Angle...
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Gorsedh Kernow (redirect from Bard of the Cornish Gorseth)
design and execute new regalia for the Grand Bard, the Deputy Grand Bard and the Secretary, and two headpieces for the Marshal's staves. Over time, and...
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Throne (redirect from The Throne)
Throne Chair at their coronation. (Note: St. Edward's Chair in Westminster Abbey is not generally considered to be a throne.) Chairing of the Bard in Wales...
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Hedd Wyn (category Chaired bards)
who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I. He was posthumously awarded the bard's chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod...
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Prifardd, literally The Chief Bard, is the Welsh title given to bards who have won either the chair or the crown in the National Eisteddfod of Wales. It is a...
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2018 Cardiff National Eisteddfod (section The Maes)
to be the largest music and poetry festival in Europe. The main competition events are the Crowning of the Bard and the Chairing of the Bard. The 2018...
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1917 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
At the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Birkenhead, the Chairing of the Bard ceremony ends with the chair draped in black, the winner, Hedd Wyn, having died...
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1961 in Wales (category Years of the 20th century in Wales)
Seasons. National Eisteddfod of Wales, held in Rhosllanerchrugog: Chairing of the Bard – Emrys Edwards Crowning of the Bard – L. Haydn Lewis Prose Medal...
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1894), known by the bardic name of Clwydfardd (Welsh for 'Bard of Clwyd'), was a Welsh poet and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales. David Griffith...
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Gorsedd Cymru (redirect from The Gorsedd of Bards)
Beirdd ("the Gorsedd of the bards") for short. At the Chairing Ceremony of 2019 National Eisteddfod, Archdruid Myrddin ap Dafydd announced that the society...
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of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The school is an "early college", designed for students to enroll immediately after completing the tenth...
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1917 in Wales (category Years of the 20th century in Wales)
towards the Battle of Passchendaele in which he will be killed a fortnight later. On September 6 at the ceremony of Chairing of the Bard at the Eisteddfod...
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The Bard of Bath is the winner of an annual competition to find Bath's best poet, singer or storyteller. The Bard uses the title to develop artistic projects...
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Joseph Bard (December 18, 1933 – February 11, 2024) was an American chemist. He was the Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair Professor and director of the Center...
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Albert Evans-Jones (category Chaired bards)
Cynan is also responsible for designing the modern ceremonies of the Crowning and the Chairing of the Bard in the Eisteddfod as they are now performed,...
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towards the Battle of Passchendaele in which he will be killed a fortnight later. On September 6 at the ceremony of Chairing of the Bard at the Eisteddfod...
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Ralph Austin Bard (July 29, 1884 – April 5, 1975) was a Chicago financier who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1941–1944, and as Under Secretary...
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September 1917 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1922 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
At the National Eisteddfod of Wales, held in Birkenhead, England, the Chairing of the Bard ceremony ended dramatically with the honorary chair being...
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Ellen M. Bard (January 11, 1949 – October 28, 2009) was an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives...
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Robert Burns (redirect from The Bard of Ayrshire)
Burns, the National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire, the Ploughman Poet, Scotland's favourite son, Robden of Solway Firth, and simply the Bard. O'Hagan, A: "The People's...
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Alexander Soros (category Bard College faculty)
member of the board of trustees at Bard. In 2014, Soros contributed an essay to the book God, Faith and Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children...
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JSTOR 3172001. Peyron, Michael (January 2000). "Amdyaz, the wandering bard of berber poetry". Études et Documents Berbères. 18 (1): 103–110. doi:10.3917/edb...
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and X-shaped steel legs Bardic chair, custom chair built every year for the winner of an Awdl poetry contest in Wales Barrel chair, has a high round back...
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Bård Ludvig Thorheim (born 15 October 1976) is a Norwegian politician, researcher and former diplomat from the Conservative Party. He has been a member...
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