Word: welshness
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...British Isles, existed side by side at the time of the Norman Conquest (1066). In 1169, Henry II forced Wales to acknowledge his suzerainty and Kdward I (1272-1307) completed the conquest of that kingdom. When Eleanor, his Queen, gave birth to a son in Carnarvon, a Welsh town, he was presented to the Welsh as a native prince "who could speak no English." Later he was styled "Prince of Wales," and the title has persisted. *The well-known "flight of the Earls," which took place in 1607, while James V was of Tyrone (Hugh O'Neill) and Tyrconnel...
...Some 88 years ago, in Martin's Ferry, Ohio, there arrived a boy whose Welsh father and Irish-German mother caused him to be called William Dean Howells. The boy played a little, went to school a bit, then learned to sit long hours on a high stool in a printer's shop setting type. When he could, he went home and sat alone "in a windowed nook under the stairs," tirelessly schooling himself in literature, languages, composition. He loved his family with a deep reserve; he guarded his thoughts; he pursued youth's ideal of beauty...
William Green, native and resident of Coshocton, Ohio, son of English and Welsh parents, a miner at 16, active in the miners' organization since that time (except for four years in the Ohio Senate), is ruddy, big-chested, broad-shouldered, medium in size. Moreover, he is only 51. He has six children, five of them girls...
...troop and the small procession passed out into the Mall beyond the Victorial Monument amid deafening cheers from a million uncovered heads and the flutterings of handkerchiefs from the hands of the heads that were covered. On either side soldiers of the five Guards Regiments (Coldstream, Grenadier, Irish, Scots, Welsh), standing rigidly with presented arms, lined the streets from the Palace, along the Mall to the Admiralty Arch, down Whitehall, to Westminster...
...Eisteddfod, which means a sitting, is The National bardic Congress of Wales. Its objects are to encourage bardism, music and Welsh literature, to preserve the language and customs of Wales and to cultivate Welsh patriotism among the people. ‡The Gorsedd (assembly) is an intrinsic part of the Eisteddfod; indeed, the latter grew from it. It is composed of the graduated bards, who alone have power of calling an Eisteddfod and conferring bardic degrees. It is also very ancient, dating from many centuries before the Christian Era. At the time of the Druids, the Gorsedd had considerable political importance...