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“Yma o hyd” by Dafydd Iwan and learning Welsh

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Yma o hyd with Welsh flag football as background

I write this in the week that the Welsh protest song Yma o hyd by Dafydd Iwan topped the iTunes chart in the United Kingdom off the back of his performance in the stadium before Wales beat Ukraine and qualified for the Fifa World Cup for the first time for sixty-four years. Iwan appears to be as surprised as any at this unexpected turn of events. The song was written in 1983 … [Read more...]

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