The digital home of Welsh culture.
The digital home of Welsh culture.
Pererin Wyf / Is oilithreach mé / I am a pilgrim: sounding the way back through story and song is a participatory arts project seeking to connect with the Welsh and Irish diaspora with particular reference to Pembrokeshire and Wexford and a new cross-border pilgrimage connecting Ferns and St Davids.
The project takes its title and inspiration from an 18th century hymn by the prolific Welsh hymn writer William Williams Pantycelyn.
The song widely known in Wales and beyond through the Welsh diaspora will be familiar to a great many other people around the globe as it is mostly sung to the tune of Amazing Grace.
This project is inviting people wherever they are in the world to sing this song, a version of this song or any song which has the power to ‘call you back home’ and to pin that recording to an online map.
The project has been developed by artist Rowan O’Neill and is being co-facilitated by Wexford based, Irish artists Rachel Uí Fhaoláin from Ceol Mo Chroí and John Ó Faoláin from Traditional Archive Channel and West Wales based digital artist Jacob Whittaker. Coding by Alan Cameron Wills.
Pererin Wyf is part of the Ancient Connections project funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Co-operation Programme.
Film produced by / Cynhyrchwyd y ffilm gan Rowan O’Neill a Jacob Whittaker
Pererin Wyf has been commissioned by the Ancient Connections Project led by Pembrokeshire County Council with partners Wexford County Council, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority and Visit Wexford. It is funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Co-operation Programme.
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