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Just a reminder that our Welsh class for beginners is starting next week. The class will be taught by Richard Morgan and will take place in Gael Linn, 35 Dame Street, Dublin 2 on Tuesday evenings from 6.30 to 8pm. The course begins on Tuesday 17th January 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.

Draig Werdd is pleased to be able to announce that a Welsh language class for beginners will once again be held in Dublin in 2017. The class will be taught by Richard Morgan and will take place in Gael Linn, 35 Dame Street, Dublin 2 on Tuesday evenings from 6.30 to 8pm. The course begins on Tuesday 17th January 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.

The Dublin Welsh Society was in existence in the 1960s – out of it was formed the Dublin Welsh choir, which is still in existence and has just celebrated its 50th anniversary (www.dublinwelsh.com).   The society was a successor to the old St. David’s Society and pre-cursor (by several decades) of Draig Werdd.    The minutes of the society meetings have now been collected into a single document and can be viewed online by going to http://www.welshsociety.ie/features.  More information about the society and images of membership cards for 1964-65 and 1965-66 are also available at this location.

Roedd  Cymdeithas Gymreig Dulyn yn bodoli yn y 1960au – allan ohoni ffurfiwyd côr Cymry Dulyn, sydd yn dal i fodoli ac sydd newydd wedi dathlu ei ben-blwydd yn 50 oed (www.dublinwelsh.com). Roedd y gymdeithas yn olynydd i’r hen Gymdeithas Dewi Sant a rhagflaenydd (drwy sawl degawd) i’r gymdeithas Draig Werdd. Mae cofnodion cyfarfodydd y gymdeithas bellach wedi cael eu casglu mewn un ddogfen ac i’w gweld ar-lein drwy fynd i http://www.welshsociety.ie/cymraeg/diddordebau. Mae rhagor o wybodaeth am y gymdeithas a lluniau o gardiau aelodaeth ar gyfer 1964-1965 a 1965-1966 ar gael hefyd yn y lleoliad hwn.

Draig Werdd recently met with Dublin City Council to discuss plans for erection of the plaque on the old Welsh chapel in Talbot Street, Dublin.  The council’s Commemorative Naming Committee has agreed to the erection of a plaque, as have the owners of the building, and the plaque has been created and is currently stored in the council’s offices.  However, due to the exterior condition of the building (see photo below), the council committee needs to agree an appropriate location for the plaque and to consider whether any preparation work needs to be done on this location.  No date has yet been set for the next meeting of the committee, but we will keep you informed of developments.

Mae Draig Werdd wedi cwrdd yn ddiweddar gyda Chyngor Dinas Dulyn i drafod cynlluniau ar gyfer codi’r plac ar yr hen gapel Cymraeg yn Talbot Street, Dulyn. Mae’r Pwyllgor Coffa ac Enwi’r Cyngor wedi cytuno i godi plac, yn ogystal â pherchnogion yr adeilad, ac mae’r plac wedi ei greu ac yn cael ei storio ar hyn o bryd yn swyddfeydd y cyngor. Fodd bynnag, oherwydd cyflwr allanol yr adeilad (gweler y llun uchod), mae angen i’r pwyllgor y cyngor i gytuno ar leoliad addas ar gyfer y plac ac i ystyried a oes angen gwneud unrhyw waith paratoi ar y lleoliad hwn. Nid oes dyddiad eto wedi’i wneud ar gyfer cyfarfod nesaf y pwyllgor, ond byddwn yn eich hysbysu am ddatblygiadau.

 

The Draig Werdd Annual General Meeting for 2016 took place in Dublin on 20th October.  The following committee was elected to serve for the coming year:

Richard Morgan (chairperson)
Anne Buttimore (secretary)
Geraint Waters (treasurer)
Gareth Llwyd Jones
Eifion Williams

Thanks and appreciation was expressed at the meeting to the outgoing chairperson, Robin Smith, who stepped down after over eight years in the position, and to the outgoing secretary Richard Bonney.   A report was given to the meeting on the status of the campaign to erect a plaque on the old Welsh chapel in Talbot Street and a discussion on this took place – a status update will be issued shortly to members.  The meeting was also informed of plans for our St. David’s Day celebrations in 2017 which have now been finalised – these will be publicised early in the new year.

Cynhaliwyd Cyfarfod Cyffredinol Blynyddol Draig Werdd ar gyfer 2016 yn Nulyn ar 20 Hydref. Etholwyd y pwyllgor dilynol i wasanaethu am y flwyddyn i ddod:

Richard Morgan (cadeirydd)
Anne Buttimore (ysgrifennydd)
Geraint Waters (trysorydd)
Gareth Llwyd Jones
Eifion Williams

Mynegwyd diolchgarwch a gwerthfawrogiad yn y cyfarfod i’r cadeirydd ymadawol, Robin Smith, a gadawodd ar ôl dros wyth mlynedd yn y swydd, ac i’r ysgrifennydd sy’n ymadael Richard Bonney. Rhoddwyd adroddiad i’r cyfarfod ar statws yr ymgyrch i godi plac ar yr hen gapel Cymraeg yn Talbot Street a chawsom drafodaeth amdano – bydd diweddariad statws yn cael ei gyhoeddi yn fuan i’r aelodau. Hysbyswyd y cyfarfod hefyd am ein cynlluniau ar gyfer dathliadau Dydd Gŵyl Dewi yn 2017 sydd erbyn hyn wedi eu cwblhau – bydd y rhain yn cael eu cyhoeddi yn gynnar yn y flwyddyn newydd.