Qualla: Talgarreg https://qualla.com/talgarreg en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/talgarreg-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Talgarreg https://qualla.com/talgarreg Talgarreg: Introduction https://qualla.com/talgarreg/ Photo credit Man vyi, Public domain. Dewi Emrys won the Chair at the National Eisteddfod four times. Nobody else has ever done it, before or since. In 1941, in his sixtieth year, he moved to a small cottage called Y Bwthyn in the village of Talgarreg, to live with his daughter Dwynwen. He spent his last eleven years here, writing, judging, presiding over the slow drift of village life, and when he died in Aberystwyth in 1952 they brought him back across the hills and buried him in Capel Pisgah cemetery. Walk the lanes around Talgarreg and you are walking the parish of a remarkable cluster of Welsh-language poets, more of them than any village this size has any statistical right to claim.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/talgarreg-wp/gckb-talgarreg-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Talgarreg: A Village of Bards https://qualla.com/talgarreg/ Photo credit Breckenheimer, Public domain. Donald Evans, who was born here in 1940, won both the Chair and the Crown at the same National Eisteddfod twice - what Welsh poets call the double-double. Only three poets in history have done it, and one of them grew up walking these lanes. T. Llew Jones, the prolific writer and...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/talgarreg-wp/gckb-talgarreg-a-village-of-bards.mp3 0:06 2 full Talgarreg: The Welsh of Daily Life https://qualla.com/talgarreg/ Photo credit Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Talgarreg is still a Welsh-speaking village. That sentence sounds simple and is not. Across most of rural Wales the Welsh language has been ebbing for generations, eroded by in-migration, by the gravitational pull of English-language media, by economic patterns that draw young pe...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/talgarreg-wp/gckb-talgarreg-the-welsh-of-daily-life.mp3 0:06 3 full Talgarreg: The Memorial Hall and What Communities Build https://qualla.com/talgarreg/ Photo credit Cered, CC BY-SA 2.0. Neuadd Goffa Talgarreg, the Memorial Hall, opened on 11 July 1923. It was built in memory of the boys and men of the parish who did not come back from the First World War. A century later it is still the hub of village life: coffee mornings, plays, christening teas, the occasiona...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/talgarreg-wp/gckb-talgarreg-the-memorial-hall-and-what-communities-build.mp3 0:06 4 full Talgarreg: Eirwyn Pontshan and the Comic Tradition https://qualla.com/talgarreg/ Photo credit Ian Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0. If the poets give Talgarreg its solemn weight, Eirwyn Pontshan - born Gwilym Eirwyn Jones, in the village in 1922 - gave it the comedy. He was a carpenter by trade and an entertainer by inclination, a Welsh nationalist who travelled the country telling stories and singing in pubs...

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