Month: September 2018

To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Leinster on 10th October 1918, the National Maritime Museum of Ireland in Dun Laoghaire will be hosting a concert of male voice choral music at 8pm on 8th October 2018, featuring the Dublin Welsh Male Voice Choir and Côr Meibion Goronwy from Anglesey.   This is one of a series of events in the area to commemorate the sinking of the ship.

Tickets cost €15 each and may be purchased online by going to the National Maritime Museum website at  https://www.mariner.ie/events/evening-presence-2-welsh-choirs-memory-rms-leinster.

I goffáu canmlwyddiant suddo’r RMS Leinster ar 10 Hydref 1918, bydd Amgueddfa Forwrol Genedlaethol Iwerddon yn Dun Laoghaire yn cynnal cyngerdd o gerddoriaeth côrau meibion am 8yh ar 8fed Hydref 2018, gyda’r Côr Meibion Cymry Dulyn a Chôr Meibion Goronwy o Ynys Môn. Dyma un o gyfres o ddigwyddiadau yn yr ardal i goffáu suddo’r llong.

Mae’r tocynnau yn costio € 15 yr un a gellir eu prynu ar-lein trwy fynd i wefan yr Amgueddfa Forwrol Genedlaethol ar https://www.mariner.ie/events/evening-presence-2-welsh-choirs-memory-rms-leinster.

Draig Werdd is pleased to be able to announce that following the success of the previous classes a further Welsh language class for people at the beginner’s level will be held in Dublin this autumn. The class will be taught by Richard Morgan and will take place in Gael Linn, 35 Dame Street, Dublin 2 on Tuesday evenings from 6.00pm to 7.30pm.

The course will use the Cwrs Mynediad book by the Welsh Joint Education Committee. It is advisable that prospective students have also tried the Duolingo Welsh English course that is available on-line and also on a smartphone app. The Duolingo course has now reached in excess of 1 million users. The course book to be used will be the Cwrs Mynediad (South Wales version), which is available on the internet via Amazon, Book Depository, GWales and other websites. The course will also include well-known poetry, hymns and short passages of text as appropriate.

The class begins on Tuesday the 11th of September and will run for 10 weeks. The cost of the course will be €80 for full-time students, €100 for Draig Werdd members and €120 for all others. Classes will be limited to a maximum of 8 participants.

If you are interested in attending the class please send an email with your details to welshclass@welshsociety.ie and Richard will get back in contact with you to give you the necessary details.