As administrator of the Diocese of Hereford, he was involved in fighting against the Welsh, suffering two defeats at the hands of raiders before securing a settlement with Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, a Welsh ruler.

The club suffered relegation from the Welsh Football League in 2001 and has since slipped down through the next two divisions into its current position, although the future is now looking brighter.

The initial Lions selection consisted of fourteen Irish players, thirteen Welsh, eight English and two Scots in the 37-man squad.

Musician Alan Stivell uses a similar dichotomy, between the Gaelic ( Irish / Scottish / Manx ) and the Brythonic ( Breton / Welsh / Cornish ) branches, which differentiate " mostly by the extended range ( sometimes more than two octaves ) of Irish and Scottish melodies and the closed range of Breton and Welsh melodies ( often reduced to a half-octave ), and by the frequent use of the pure pentatonic scale in Gaelic music.

The suite which includes a Scottish pipe band, Irish and Welsh harpists, Galician gaitas, Irish uilleann pipes, the bombardes of Brittany, two vocal soloists and a narrator is set against a background of a classical orchestra and a large choir.

The Dumnonii gave their name to the English county of Devon, and their name is represented in Britain's two extant Brythonic languages as Dewnans in Cornish and Dyfnaint in Welsh.

The EFA supplied ten members: two of the Scottish SNP, two of the Welsh Plaid Cymru ( PC ), two of the Flemish VU, one of the Basque PNV, one of Basque Solidarity ( EA ), one of the Andalusian PA, and one of the Galician Nationalist Bloc ( BNG ).

The rugby ground has two main entrances, the south entrance, and the Gwyn Nicholls Memorial Gates ( north entrance ), which was unveiled on 26 December 1949 in honour of the Welsh international rugby player Gwyn Nicholls.

The Club has produced two Welsh international bowlers ; Mr. C Standfast in 1937 and Mr. B Hawkins who represented Wales in the 1982 World Pairs and captained Wales in 1982 and 1984.

Typically, an English, Welsh or Scottish regiment would have two militia battalions ( the 3rd and 4th ) and Irish regiments three ( numbered 3rd-5th ).

He usually used the title " Proprietary Prince of Deheubarth " or " Prince of South Wales ", but two documents have been preserved in which he uses the title " Prince of Wales " or " Prince of the Welsh ".

Legislative power is vested in the two chambers of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the House of Commons and the House of Lords, as well as in the Scottish parliament and Welsh and Northern Ireland assemblies.

English uses W to represent and in two words ( namely ' cwm ' and ' crwth ', which both are derived directly from Welsh ), German, Polish and Kashubian use it for the voiced labiodental fricative ( with Polish and related Kashubian using Ł for ), and Dutch uses it for or.

* 38th ( Welsh ) Infantry Division, two units, one in each world war

There came two eaorlmen to Britain, Cerdic and Cynric his son, with five ships, to a place called Cerdicesora, on the same day they fought the Welsh ", but the historian F. M. Stenton gave evidence of doubled entries in the Chronicle, which suggests an early 6th century date for the arrival of the ancestor of the Wessex ruling kinship.

Early in his reign he conducted two campaigns against the " West Welsh ", first in 813 and then again at Gafulford in 825.

The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 which led to the creation of the English and Welsh national parks defined two purposes for national park authorities relating to conservation and enjoyment.

Eight English counties and three Welsh counties each received an additional representative and Yorkshire, which was represented by four MPs before the Act was given an extra two MPs ( so that each of its three ridings was represented by two MPs ).

Numan's new album Dead Son Rising was released on 16 September 2011 which had a full U. K tour split in two halves, 15 – 21 September and 7 – 11 December, Both parts were supported by Welsh soloist Jayce Lewis in an interview during the tour ; Gary praised the Welshman to being the best supporting act ever in his 30 years of touring, later documenting the tour in a Tour diary and publicly inviting Jayce to join him for an American tour in 2012.

The 18th century saw the beginnings of two changes that would greatly affect Wales, the Welsh Methodist revival, which led the country to turn increasingly nonconformist in religion, and the Industrial Revolution.

At the Bangor Eisteddfod of 1874 Hen Wlad fy Nhadau gained further popularity when it was sung by Robert Rees (" Eos Morlais "), one of the leading Welsh soloists of his day.

Since Imbolc is immediately followed ( on 2 February ) by Candlemas ( Irish Lá Fhéile Muire na gCoinneal " feast day of Mary of the Candles ", Welsh Gŵyl Fair y Canhwyllau ), Irish imbolc is sometimes rendered as " Candlemas " in English translation ; e. g. iar n-imbulc, ba garb a ngeilt translated as " after Candlemas, rough was their herding ".

Then, after four weeks, I came home one day and said, ‘ Muumm, I wanna go to Sarfend !’ For her that was the end because I had lost my lovely Welsh lilt.

They had held back earlier in the day when many of the English and Welsh archers had crossed, only to be recalled because de Warenne had overslept.

Despite the historical source material, Welsh has set the story in the familiar confines of present day Edinburgh, with Burke and Hare depicted as brothers who steal human organs to meet the demands of the global transplant market.

The chorus of the ( mostly Welsh ) song International Velvet declares " Every day when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh.

The p-Celtic Welsh language also translates the Latin " day of the sun " as dydd Sul.

The Celtic languages also name this day for Saturn: Irish an Satharn or dia Sathuirn, Scottish Gaelic Disathairne, Welsh dydd Sadwrn, Breton Sadorn or disadorn.

In Welsh ( Cymraeg ), the day is known as Calan Awst, originally a Latin term, the Calends of August in English.

There seems to be some continuity of Early Medieval Welsh tradition into the Late Middle Ages, with 14th century poets such as Dafydd ap Gwilym and Iolo Goch, and even to the present day with the Gorsedd of Bards.

This Macha is particularly associated with horses — it is perhaps significant that twin colts were born on the same day as Cúchulainn, and that one of his chariot-horses was called Liath Macha or " Macha's Grey "— and she is often compared with the Welsh mythological figure Rhiannon.

Since much if not all Welsh poetry was transmitted orally in Taliesin's day, it is possible that the original poems were first written down four centuries later using the contemporary spellings of that day.

In present day Welsh taranu and taran means ' to thunder ' and ' thunder ' ( taraniñ and taran in Breton ), and in present day Irish Tarann means ' thunder '.

One writer has suggested that the college may have adopted the arms in order to be associated with one of the leading Welsh families of the day.

The reaction of many of the prominent Welsh of the day and down the centuries were very similar — gratitude that the laws had been introduced and made Wales a peaceful and orderly country.

From his father he inherited the Rape of Bramber, in Sussex, and through his mother he inherited a large estate in the Welsh Marches area of modern day Monmouthshire.

Though lacking the pessimistic lyrical content of their contemporaries, Welsh heavy metal band Budgie would also produce heavy songs which were amongst the loudest of their day, stylistically influencing various doom metal acts.

St David's day was celebrated by Welsh diaspora from the late Middle Ages.

Indeed, the 17th century diarist Samuel Pepys noted how Welsh celebrations in London for St David's day would spark wider countercelebrations amongst their English neighbours: life-sized effigies of Welshmen were symbolically lynched, and by the 18th century the custom had arisen of confectioners producing ' Taffies ' – gingerbread figures baked in the shape of a Welshman riding a goat-on St David's Day.

Many Welsh people wear one or both of the national emblems of Wales on their lapel to celebrate St. David: the daffodil ( a generic Welsh symbol which is in season during March ) or the leek ( Saint David's personal symbol ) on this day.

* During the first week of August in Wales, the National Eisteddfod of Wales is held, in which many aspects of Welsh art and culture are celebrated.

In Chubut, the Welsh community is known for its teahouses, offering scones and torta galesa, which is rather like torta negra.

Abercarn is home to Abercarn Rugby Club which is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union.

Hirwaun moor, 4 miles to the north west of Aberdare, was according to tradition the scene of a battle at which Rhys ap Tewdwr, prince of Dyfed, was defeated by the allied forces of the Norman Robert Fitzhamon and Iestyn ap Gwrgant, the last Welsh prince of Glamorgan.

There were many chapels in the area, most of which from the non-conformist era of Welsh religion ; few of these are still used, and many have been converted or demolished.

The Aberdare Athletic Ground was the venue of the first rugby league international between Wales and the New Zealand All Golds on New Year's Day 1908, which was won by the Welsh 9-8.

In January 2012, the Welsh Government announced the repeal the Abergavenny Improvement Acts of 1854 to 1871 which obliged the holding of a livestock market within the boundaries of Abergavenny town ; that repeal being effective from 26 March 2012.

Several contemporary bands have Welsh language songs, such as Ceredwen, which fuses traditional instruments with trip-hop beats, the Super Furry Animals, Fernhill, and so on ( see the Music of Wales article for more Welsh and Welsh-language bands ).

Critics have explored the connection between the creation of Thomas ' mythological pasts into his works such as " The Orchards ", which Ann Elizabeth Mayer believes reflects the Welsh myths of the Mabinogion.

Instead he believes his work, especially his earlier more autobiographical poems, are rooted in a changing country which echoes the Welshness of the past and the Anglicisation of the new industrial nation: " rural and urban, chapel-going and profane, Welsh and English, Unforgiving and deeply compassionate.

The name Excalibur apparently derives from the Welsh Caledfwlch which combines the elements (" battle, hard "), and (" breach, gap, notch ").

The name was later used in Welsh adaptations of foreign material such as the Bruts, which were based on Geoffrey.

Most Celticists consider Geoffrey's Caliburnus to be derivative of a lost Old Welsh text in which bwlch had not yet been lenited to fwlch.

In the late 15th / early 16th century Middle Cornish play Beunans Ke, Arthur's sword is called Calesvol, which is etymologically an exact Middle Cornish cognate of the Welsh Caledfwlch.

The names used in the languages themselves ( Gaeilge / Gaolainn / Gaelic in Irish, Gaelg / Gailck in Manx, and Gàidhlig in Scottish Gaelic ) are derived from Old Irish Goídelc, which comes from Old Welsh Guoidel meaning " pirate, raider ".

The Methodist Revival of the 18th century created an explosion of hymn-writing in Welsh, which continued into the first half of the 19th century.

They spoke the now extinct British language, which evolved into the Breton, Cornish, and Welsh languages.

The Welsh word for honeymoon is mis mêl, which translates as " honey month ", and similarly the Ukrainian ( Медовий місяць ), Polish ( miesiąc miodowy ), Russian ( Медовый месяц ), Arabic ( شهر العسل shahr el ' assal ), Greek ( μήνας του μέλιτος ) and Hebrew ( ירח דבש yerach d ' vash ) versions.

Geoffrey provides prehistoric London with a rich array of legendary kings, such as King Lud ( see also Lludd, from Welsh Mythology ) who, he claims, renamed the town CaerLudein, from which London was derived, and was buried at Ludgate.

Classical Latin Arcturus would also have become Art ( h ) ur when borrowed into Welsh, and its brightness and position in the sky led people to regard it as the " guardian of the bear " ( which is the meaning of the name in Ancient Greek ) and the " leader " of the other stars in Boötes.

A similar first name is Old Irish Artúr, which is believed to be derived directly from an early Old Welsh or Cumbric Artur.