DOCSLIB.ORG

Copy of the First Book to Be Printed in Wales Presented to Pope Benedict

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Copy of the First Book to Be Printed in Wales Presented to Pope Benedict DALEN 2010 (ENGLISH)_Layout 1 21/12/2010 12:01 Page 1 Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru The National Library of Wales Aberystwyth THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES DNEWSLETTER ALENSPRING 2011 ISSUE 13 Copy of the First Book to be Printed in Wales presented to Pope Benedict XVI A facsimile copy of Y Drych Cristianogawl, a Catholic text and the first book to be printed on Welsh soil, was presented to Pope Benedict XVI at Westminster Cathedral in London on Saturday 18 September 2010. The facsimile was produced by Julian Thomas, 18 September. Manager of the Conservation Treatment Unit Joseph Kelly has great respect for the at The National Library of Wales. Julian is Catholics who produced Y Drych NLW's Julian Thomas presenting 'Y Drych Cristianogawl' one of the leading bookbinders and Cristianogawl. to Joseph Kelly. facsimile makers in Britain and is regularly ‘I have a longstanding interest in Father selected to create an elegant bound copy of William Davies, the first Catholic publisher each of the six shortlisted Booker Prize The world’s first Chair of Digital Collections in Wales. I had always hoped that one day finalists. This facsimile was commissioned by I could raise awareness of Y Drych The National Library in Wrexham! Joseph Kelly, Chief Executive of the Universe Cristianogawl, and it is a great honour for Catholic Weekly. It was presented to the Who was Islwyn Roberts? me to be able to do that and to see the Pope by Bishop Edwin Regan of Wrexham as facsimile copy of that book presented to the Two NLW Collections Win UNESCO Status a gift from the people of Wales during a Pope.’ Meet the Staff Welsh-themed service at Mass in Westminster Cathedral on Saturday morning New look for Café Pen Dinas Charles & Patricia Aithie: Yemen Season’s Highlights Flickr Commons collection Archive films on the Big Screen Last season we were honoured to welcome One of the highlights of the season was an array of well-known faces to the Library. Hollywood actor Matthew Rhys’s visit to the The Proud Valley in Wrexham Firstly, the Labour politician and author Roy Library to promote his recent book about his Hattersley discussed his recently published journey across Patagonia called Patagonia – book about David Lloyd George, Lloyd Crossing the Plain. Date for the George – The Great Outsider. The renowned travel writers and authors Jan Morris and Owen Sheers gave a fascinating insight into Diary their work, and Dr Nick Barratt the well-known family historian talked about Friday 15 April 7.30 p.m. researching the history of your home. ‘How do we sort out this mess?’ Robert Peston, author and BBC Business Editor, discusses the current position of the British and global economies. Admission by ticket £10.00 www.llgc.org.uk 01970 632 800 632 01970 www.llgc.org.uk ISSN 1744-6759 DALEN 2010 (ENGLISH)_Layout 1 21/12/2010 12:01 Page 2 4 January - 2 April 2011 4 January - March 2012 4 January - 2 April 2011 4 January - 26 November 2011 16 April - 2 July 2011 Exhibitions Small World – Travel in Wales and Beyond Step by Step – Tracing your Ancestors at Patricia & Charles Aithie: Yemen Writers of Wales: Islwyn Ffowc Elis & John Welson & Jean-Claude Charbonel: A major exhibition on the history of travel The National Library of Wales An exhibition of striking photographs of Gillian Clarke Surrealism – the Celtic Eye Opening hours: Monday to Saturday and exploration in Wales and beyond An exhibition highlighting the rich family Yemen. An exhibition celebrating the life and work A major An exhibition of Celtic art by two 10.00 a.m. - 4.30 p.m. through images, journals, text and items history resources held at the Library. of Welsh authors Islwyn Ffowc Elis and leading surrealist artists from Wales and Admission is free. from the Library’s unique collections. Gillian Clarke. Brittany. Two NLW Collections Win UNESCO On the Trail of the Hitch-hiker – Penny Richards’s use of the National Library's Flickr Commons collection Who was Islwyn Roberts? Status How did you hear about good for shoes – nothing Cranogwen, she liked them m Two items from the National Library were the National Library’s complicated – shoes have even more. Her work f ha f Wrex among ten items and collections chosen by Flickr Commons collection? such a small space for involves teaching a UNESCO to be the first on a heritage list of t I heard about the Flickr collage elements that the “navigation” in a more s The National Film: The Proud Valley (1940) exceptional documents in the United 07/10/10 Odeon, Wrexham 7.30 p.m. image has to be fairly abstract sense of the word, The National Library in Wrexham! e Library of Wales Kingdom. The items concerned were a Commons uploads from simple and clear. I like when so the match was good h comes to Wrexham Presentation: What is the National Library of Wales? NLW because I've been Last Autumn, the National12/10/10 Ysgol Library Morgan Llwyd, Wrexhamleft its 7.00 p.m. rediscovered film about David Lloyd George, t October - December following the Commons an image can be flipped there. The paint on the the last Liberal to be Prime Minister (The t home in2010 AberystwythWhat's and in your decamped attic? Learn about our newto website horizontally, so the shoes shoes cracked a little, it project since it was e Wrexham – or, at leastand tell a us yoursmall story part of it did! Life Story of David Lloyd George), and the www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk launched. I get a feed for all have mirror images on usually does, but the image e 2/11/10 Llay Miners Welfare 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. Peniarth Manuscripts collection, which them; that makes more is still fine and the shoes As part of its remit to ensure that people of the latest uploads, so I M Open Night - NLW President, Dafydd Wigley hosts includes the famous Laws of Hywel Dda. visual sense on shoes than are very wearable. all backgrounds are anaware evening of talks of and the presentations Library’s always know what's new. Dafydd Tudur collections and the work11/11/10 Guildhallit does, 6.30 p.m.members of The Library’s collections were among ten I tag through many of the identical images. Opening of Exhibition - Old Photos of Wrexham What are your thoughts staff collaborated with11/11/10 local (until 10 people,December) Wrexham clubs Library winning items from all parts of the UK interesting collections, What is your job title? 8.00 p.m. which encompass almost one thousand Do you intend to use on organisations offering and societies in preparing an exciting especially if they involve Rights and Information Manager. timetable of events Familythat and were Local History held - Open Day in years of history in chronicling critically portraits of women, more photos from the their photographs free of 13/11/10 Yale College 10.00 a.m. - 3.00 p.m. collection? charge online? October and November. important periods and events in the because I study women's What part of your job do you enjoy 01970 632800 development of the United Kingdom. history (I'm a research I have used other photos The institutions involved in [email protected] Green, Librarian at The National A 1958 photo of a little-known hitch-hiker, most? www.llgc.org.uk/wrecsam10 Islwyn Roberts, saw him become the scholar affiliated with the from the NLW collection. For the Commons project have LibraryLlyfrgell of Genedlaethol Wales, Cymru said: ‘We are very proud to The winner was chosen by the UK Memory Rights and information matters are The National Library of Wales UCLA Center for the Study about eight months my generally been very Aberystwyth unlikely poster boy for the Library’s big of the World special committee, following a have gone to Wrexham this year – a town of Women). daily purse featured an welcoming of my remixes, relevant to many aspects of the Library’s winter exhibition about travel – Small nomination and review process which began that has played a significant role in Welsh image of Sarah Edith so I think I must be hitting work, and as such my job gives me the World. Following our request for in 2009. history. This year’s highlights includes the Why did you choose this Wynne, the opera singer, that right note most of the opportunity to work with people in all opening of the Old Photos of Wrexham information on the globe-trotting ‘We were immensely pleased to see the photo? wearing a plain taffeta time. parts of the building. So, it’s a great exhibition at the town’s Library.’ hitch-hiker from Llanbedr, Meirionethshire, chance to get to know other members of we received many responses. diversity and richness of the first I chose the Cranogwen gown. That's in my Flickr nominations for the register,’ said David portrait for many reasons. stream too. staff at the Library, and gain an • It would seem that Islwyn Roberts had Dawson, Chairman of the UK Memory of the Her story is very interesting understanding of how they contribute to partly lost his hearing during the World Committee. ‘Considering the wealth – a nineteenth-century Have you had much its work. Lorna Hughes appointed to the Second World War owing to a bomb of the UK’s documentary history, I am woman with experience as response to the shoes? What is your favourite item in the first Digital Collections Chair in explosion certain that these winners do no more than a sea captain, teaching Was your friend happy with the shoes? Library’s collection? the world • When travelling he carried a Red scratch the surface.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Vector the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association
    Vector The Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association The Music Issue No. 286 Autumn 2017 £4.00 Vector The Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association Features, Editorial Anna McFarlane ARTICLES and Letters: [email protected] Twitter: @mariettarosetta Torque Control Editorial by Anna McFarlane ...................... 3 Book Reviews: Susan Oke 18 Cromer Road, The Shared Futuristic Space of Welsh Barnet EN5 5HT [email protected] Music and Welsh-Language Science Production: Alex Bardy Fiction [email protected] by Miriam Jones ....................................... 4 British Science Fiction Association Ltd Saul Williams in Conversation with The BSFA was founded in 1958 and is a non-profitmaking Richard Howard organisation entirely staffed by unpaid volunteers. Registered in England. Limited by guarantee. by Richard Howard ................................. 10 BSFA Website www.bsfa.co.uk ‘Kaboom! Guess That Must Spell Doom!’: Company No. 921500 Dystopia and the Post-Apocalypse in Hip- Registered address: 61 Ivycroft Road, Warton, Hop Music Videos Tamworth, Staffordshire B79 0JJ by Lidia Kniaz ........................................ 15 President Stephen Baxter ‘Gotta Make Way for the Homo Superior’: Chair Donna Scott Finding Philip K. Dick in David Bowie’s [email protected] ‘Oh! You Pretty things!’ Treasurer Martin Potts by Tony Keen ....................................... 20 61 Ivy Croft Road, Warton, Nr. Tamworth B79 0JJ Speculative Fiction in Opera [email protected] by J. K. Rooke .......................................... 22 Membership Services Dave Lally (incl. changes of address) [email protected] Your BSFA Membership No. is shown on the address label of the envelope this magazine came in, please note RECURRENT it down NOW and use it in all BSFA communications re.
    [Show full text]
  • The Role of Urdd Gobaith Cymru Accepted for Publication In
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Loughborough University Institutional Repository Youth organisations and the reproduction of nationalism in Britain: the role of Urdd Gobaith Cymru Rhys Jones, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University Peter Merriman, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University Sarah Mills, Department of Geography, Loughborough University th Accepted for publication in Social & Cultural Geography on 28 September 2015 Introduction In this paper we examine the role played by youth organisations in shaping the national identities of young people in the UK. We argue that, in general, the role of youth organisations in shaping the individual and group identities of young people has been neglected. In particular, there has been a dearth of research on the key role played by youth organisations in shaping the cultural and political identities of youth in the various territories – or what are sometimes called the devolved nations – of the UK. This second area of neglect is particularly surprising, given the potential for youth organisations in these territories to reflect and help to promote national identities within them. Our aim in this paper is to begin to fill this gap by examining the role played by a key youth organisation in Wales – Urdd Gobaith Cymru (literally Wales’ Guild of Hope) – in reflecting and shaping Welsh national identities. In doing so, this paper makes two contributions to existing debates in social, cultural and political geography. First, in relation to scholarship on the cultural and political geographies of the nation, the paper highlights how youth organisations imagine, represent and reproduce the nation.
    [Show full text]
  • 3. Celtic Languages
    Freie Universität Berlin Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften Appropriating New Technology for Minority Language Revitalization: The Welsh Case DISSERTATION zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doktor der Philosophie (Dr. phil.) Vorgestellt von Mourad Ben Slimane Appropriating New Technology for Minority Language Revitalization Gutachter: 1. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Leitner 2. Prof. Dr. Carol W. Pfaff Disputation: Berlin, den 27.06.2008 2 Appropriating New Technology for Minority Language Revitalization Acknowledgments This dissertation would not have been written without the continuous support as well as great help of my dear Professor Gerhard Leitner. His expertise, understanding, and patience added considerably to my research experience. I would like to express my deep gratitude for him because it was his persistence and direction that encouraged me to complete my Ph.D. My special thanks goes out to Professor Carol W. Pfaff for giving me the opportunity to do a seminar on endangered languages at the John F. Kennedy Institute, which has been very useful for my thesis and professional experience. Thanks to Professor Peter Kunsmann, PD Dr.Volker Gast, and Dr. Florian Haas for kindly accepting to serve on my defense committee. I would also like to thank the Freie University of Berlin for the financial support that it provided me with to finish my research. The Welsh Language Board has also been very supportive in offering me recent literature on the development of Information Technology during my visit to Wales. Thanks to Grahame Davies from BBC Wales who provided me with many insights at different points in time with regard to Welsh new media and related matters.
    [Show full text]
  • Building New Business Strategies for the Music Industry in Wales
    Knowledge Exploitation Capacity Development Academic Expertise for Business Building New Business Strategies for the Music Industry in Wales Final report School of Music BANGOR UNIVERSITY This study is funded by an Academia for Business (A4B) grant, which is managed by the Welsh Assembly Government’s Department for Economy and Transport, and is financed by the Welsh Assembly Government and the European Union. 1 Table of Contents Executive Summary.......................................................................................................5 The following conclusions are drawn from this study......................................................5 The following recommendations are made in this study ................................................6 Preface ..............................................................................................................................8 Introduction ....................................................................................................................9 Part 1: Background and Context: The Infrastructure of the Welsh­Language Popular Music Industry from 1965–c.2000......................................................... 12 1.1 Overview...................................................................................................................................... 12 1.2 Record companies and sales .............................................................................................. 13 1.3 TV, radio and Welsh­language music journalism ....................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Table of Contents Introduction
    Table of Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 3 Part One: Resistant and Conservative Welsh Spaces .............................................................. 9 Chapter One: Mapping the ‘Real’: The Spatial Turn, and Psychogeography in Wales ........... 9 The Spatial Turn ....................................................................................................................... 10 Geocriticism and Critical Literary Geography .......................................................................... 16 Post-Devolution Thirdspace ..................................................................................................... 28 Literary Geography and Literary Tourism in Wales ................................................................. 35 Chapter Two: ‘Going native’: Jan Morris and Devolutionary Wales ..................................... 44 Patriotism, Nationalism, and a Brief Note on Patagonia ......................................................... 49 Jan Morris and Utopia .............................................................................................................. 58 The Utopian Impulse ................................................................................................................ 65 Welsh Writing: Political and Literary Utopias .......................................................................... 71 Machynlleth: Capital of Utopian Wales ..................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Adroddiad Blynyddol 1981
    ADRODDIAD BLYNYDDOL / ANNUAL REPORT 1980-81 PAUL SANDBY 1981001 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Mr Frank Aubrey Coombes, per Trant & Richards, Solicitors, Carmarthen. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1980-81 Disgrifiad / Description A pen and watercolour drawing of Edwinsford by Paul Sandby (Dept of Pictures and Maps PE432). MAXWELL FRASER BEQUEST & TREFIN ARCHDDERWYDD CYMRU BEQUEST 1981002 Ffynhonnell / Source The late Maxwell Fraser (Mrs Edgar Phillips), Slough, Berkshire. Blwyddyn / Year Adroddiad Blynyddol / Annual Report 1980-81 Disgrifiad / Description The manuscripts and papers of Maxwell Fraser (1902-80), authoress and travel writer, and of her husband, Edgar Phillips (`Trefin'; 1889-1962), together with an extensive collection of printed books, photographs, postcards, records and cassettes, postage stamps and first day covers. At the testator's request the archive is to be divided into two groups to be known as the 'Maxwell Fraser Bequest' and the `Trefin Archdderwydd Cymru Bequest'. The `Maxwell Fraser Bequest' contains a substantial corpus of correspondence, diaries, drafts and typescripts of books and articles, broadcast scripts, material connected with the testator's researches on Lord and Lady Llanover, a very large number of theatre programmes, a small group of letters and papers relating to the testator's parents and to her uncle, Lovat Fraser (1871-1926), the prominent journalist and author of India under Curzon and after (1911). The 'Trefin Archdderwydd Cymru Bequest' is a much smaller archive consisting of manuscripts, papers, letters, diaries, drafts and typescripts of poems, articles and other compositions including translations and broadcast scripts, and scrapbooks relating to the National Eisteddfod and the Gorsedd of Bards.
    [Show full text]
  • Disability in Industrial Britain
    Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin, and Steven Thompson - 9781526124326 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 10/05/2021 08:43:48AM via free access DISABILITY IN INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin, and Steven Thompson - 9781526124326 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 10/05/2021 08:43:48AM via free access Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin, and Steven Thompson - 9781526124326 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 10/05/2021 08:43:48AM via free access DISABILITY IN INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN A CULTURAL AND LITERARY HISTORY OF IMPAIRMENT IN THE COAL INDUSTRY, 1880–1948 Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin and Steven Thompson Manchester University Press Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin, and Steven Thompson - 9781526124326 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 10/05/2021 08:43:48AM via free access Copyright © Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin and Steven Thompson 2020 The rights of Kirsti Bohata, Alexandra Jones, Mike Mantin and Steven Thompson to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This electronic version has been made freely available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) licence, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust, which permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction provided the authors and Manchester University Press are fully cited and no modifications or adaptations are made. Details of the licence can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
    [Show full text]
  • Adam Pearce Bangor University
    English Translations of Daniel Owen 1888–2010: Nation, Canon and Welsh-English Cultural Relations Adam Pearce Bangor University A thesis submitted to Bangor University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 1 Summary In this thesis, I analyse four English translations of the novels of Victorian Welsh- language novelist Daniel Owen from a variety of postcolonial and Translation Studies perspectives. Drawing on recent theories in Translations Studies and Welsh cultural studies, I suggest that translations of Owen’s work have been undertaken as part of a variety of political and cultural agendas. These often interrelated agendas have included attempts to reinvent the idea of the Welsh nation, attempts to reinforce and/or rehabilitate the reputation of Daniel Owen as a canonical author in the Welsh-language literary canon, and attempts to either inspire the tradition of Welsh Writing in English, or to distance that practice from Welsh-English translation. In presenting these arguments, I suggest that the role of Welsh-English translation in Welsh cultural history over the late nineteenth to twenty-first centuries has been underappreciated, and that it has in fact been central to processes of cultural and national re-imagination in Wales over this period. 2 Contents Note to the reader 5 Acknowledgements 6 Declaration and Consent 8 Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Opening statements, research questions 12 1.2 Critical debates in Welsh-English translation 18 1.3 Translation and (post)colonial discourse in Wales 31 1.4 Translation and the Welsh-language
    [Show full text]
  • Substantive Complexity Effects
    2nd Lublin Celtic Colloquium Centres and Peripheries in Celtic Studies 21-22 September 2017 Lublin Book of Abstracts Department of Celtic Studies The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland 2 Organizing Committee Dr hab. Maria Bloch-Trojnar Dr Robert Looby Dr Mark Ó Fionnáin Dr Aleksander Bednarski The conference takes place under the honorary patronage of 3 Contents Keynote Speakers .................................................................... 5 Brian Ó Conchubhair ................................................................................................. 5 The Polish Origins of Irish-Language Modernist Fiction? Joseph Conrad & Pádraig Ó Conaire ..................................................................................................................... 5 Diarmuid Ó Sé ............................................................................................................. 7 Centre and Periphery in Irish dialects ......................................................................... 7 Oral Presentations ................................................................... 8 Sabine Asmus .............................................................................................................. 8 The early concept of the Celtic colour term ‘glas’ and its later development .............. 8 Aleksander Bednarski ................................................................................................. 9 Sanctuary of the Metaphysical: Art in Christopher Meredith’s Shifts ........................
    [Show full text]
  • Independent Wales?: the Impact of Devolution on Welsh Fiction in English
    Emma Schofield Independent Wales?: The Impact of Devolution on Welsh Fiction in English A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Cardiff University 2014 2/246 Contents Abstract 4 Acknowledgements 5 Introduction 6 Literature and Politics in National Identity 6 Imagined Communities 15 A History of Devolution in Wales 20 Why Now? 27 An Outline of the Thesis and Chosen Texts 30 Chapter I - ‘St David’s Day Defeat’: The rise of the individual and the impact of the 1979 referendum on Welsh fiction in English 36 A Time of Awakening: Social, Sexual and Political Awakening in Home to an Empty House (1973) and I Sent a Letter to My Love (1975) 45 Heightened Tensions: Approaching the 1979 Referendum 60 Facing the Referendum Results 72 Chapter II - ‘A permanently changing reality’: the process of redefinition in Anglophone Welsh writing 1980-1989 77 ‘The Welsh experience’: politics and journals in early 1980s Wales 85 Protest and Politics: Anglophone Welsh Writing and the 1984 Miners’ Strikes 97 Replacing Romance with Reality: The Growth of Independent Publishing in Wales 105 Chapter III - The Drive for Devolution: Anglophone Welsh writing 1990–1998 128 Short fiction and the resurgence of the short story in Wales 138 3/246 Approaching Devolution 1994 – 1997 156 Chapter IV – ‘Warning – Welsh Assembly!’: Post-devolution Welsh fiction in English 175 Bridging the Gap 181 Fragmented or Unified? Diversity in Post-Devolution Wales 203 Crossing the Linguistic Divide in Post-Devolution Anglophone 211 Welsh Writing Conclusion 225 A Decade of Devolution 225 Bibliography 239 4/246 Abstract This thesis traces the relation between Anglophone Welsh fiction and politics, in light of the campaign for, and introduction, of devolution.
    [Show full text]
  • Welsh Writing in English: an Interview? with Ned Thomas
    Welsh Writing in English: An Interview? with Ned Thomas DAVID LLOYD M ODERN WALES is enriched, and conflicted, by two litera• tures. Welsh literature, extending back to the sixth century A.D., was preeminent through the nineteenth century. But by the early decades of the twentieth century enough Welsh men and women were writing in English to give birth to a new literature. Complex and controversial issues accompanied this development, gener• ating a continuing debate over the nature of Anglo-Welsh writ• ing. These issues include the claim of some Welsh-language writers to represent the only authentic literature of Wales, the question of whether or not an extended literary tradition in English has existed in Wales, the absence (until recently) of a publishing apparatus for English-language writers, the rise of a Welsh nationalism committed to preserving the Welsh language, and the question of whether English-language literature in Wales can be distinguished from English literature proper. During 1990 and 1991 I conducted interviews with writers, editors, and publishers of Anglo-Welsh poetry and fiction to explore these and other issues relating to cultural and literary identity in Wales.1 This interview with critic, editor, and scholar Ned Thomas took place on June 30, 1990, at his home in Llandre, near Aberystwyth in Wales. Ned Thomas is the author of The Welsh Extremist, an influential political and literary study of con• temporary Wales. He is also, with Sara Eskine, a founding editor of Planet, an English-language Welsh literary and cultural maga• zine. He has taught in the English Department at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, since 1970; in 1991, he left Planet and his lectureship to become Director of the University of Wales Press.
    [Show full text]
  • Daniel Owen 1888-2010 : Nation, Canon and Welsh-English Cultural Relations
    Bangor University DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY English translations of Daniel Owen 1888-2010 : nation, canon and Welsh-English cultural relations Pearce, Adam Award date: 2015 Awarding institution: Bangor University Link to publication General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 30. Sep. 2021 English Translations of Daniel Owen 1888–2010: Nation, Canon and Welsh-English Cultural Relations Adam Pearce Bangor University A thesis submitted to Bangor University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 1 Summary In this thesis, I analyse four English translations of the novels of Victorian Welsh- language novelist Daniel Owen from a variety of postcolonial and Translation Studies perspectives. Drawing on recent theories in Translations Studies and Welsh cultural studies, I suggest that translations of Owen’s work have been undertaken as part of a variety of political and cultural agendas. These often interrelated agendas have included attempts to reinvent the idea of the Welsh nation, attempts to reinforce and/or rehabilitate the reputation of Daniel Owen as a canonical author in the Welsh-language literary canon, and attempts to either inspire the tradition of Welsh Writing in English, or to distance that practice from Welsh-English translation.
    [Show full text]