Eisteddfod

But, yeah, yeah.

Well, no, that was going to be my next question because I don't think they played the Eisteddfod after that until, you know, this year.

And, you know, they performed Mung for the first time because that hadn't been performed.

Yeah, they decided not to tour Mung.

they were the result of those very raids and conquests of which the roman historians of that age had so much to tell them when the scots or irish and picts descended upon the coast of britain he believed no gale ever set foot on british soil save from a vessel that had put out from ireland and that the gale arrived in ireland not via britain but from the continent probably from gaul the previous inhabitants were subjugated by the gales and made to speak the language of the conqueror on which it might be supposed that they left the impression of their own speech there is not a shadow of a doubt in regard to the derivation of the welsh bardic system from ireland no serious historian now dreams of claiming a pre patrician origin for the welsh their whole system was modelled on that of the irish and as we have said similarly with the music system which however was not developed for several hundred years later for long the eisteddfod was regarded as a purely welsh institution going back into the mists of antiquity recent research is conclusive as pointing to the face of tara as the real origin of the eisteddfod we have seen that the face of tara was celebrated triennially by the head kings of ireland even before the christian era and that the last great assembly held in tara's halls took place in a d five sixty welsh critical writers cannot assign an earlier date for an eisteddfod than the middle of the seventh century or eighty six fifty nearly a hundred years after the last face of tara these triennial assemblies were held variously at aberfraw at dinevor and at mathranael merionethshire St Brecon, an Irish chieftain, gave his name to Brecnachshire, and founded close on sixty oratories or churches in Wales.

His son, St. Knog, founded the parish of Mertherknog, whilst his daughter, St. Cana, or Cain Widdiff, gave her name to the parish of Cainsham, Somerset, and Slangovan, near Abergavenny.

Passing over two or three hundred years of debatable ground, the musical side of the Eisteddfodau was being gradually developed at the close of the ninth century, and we have tolerable evidence that it received considerable attention during the reign of Howell the Good.

nine fifteen to nine forty eight in ten sixty whilst the king and queen of north wales were in ireland as fugitives a son and heir griffith ap cynon was born to them who was fostered by dermot head king of ireland When Prince Griffith came to man's estate, he returned to Wales to claim his patrimony, then usurped by Treherne, and in 1080 he fought the decisive Battle of Carno, which placed him on the throne of North Wales.

King Griffith held an esteth fod at Caerwys in 1100, and as he had been particularly enamoured of the martial tones of the Irish war-pipes, he gave special prominence to pipe performances.