Sharing ‘Valuable Treasures’: The Beginnings of the Welsh-language American Periodical Press
This is the second episode recorded in front of a live audience during the NAASWCH conference in Rio Grande, Ohio. We discuss the early history of the United States’ Welsh-language periodical press (and while noting the religious affiliations of some of these periodicals, Richard Wyn Jones manifests a surpring sectarianism!). We then go on to focus on the first Welsh-language American periodical to succeed, Y Cyfaill o’r Hen Wlad [‘The Friend from the Old Country’], looking at the content of some of this interesting journal’s early numbers. In one of these texts we find an interesting suggesting relationg to the essence of the Welsh language as a medium for tramsmitting culture and we see that another is an amazing American example of an old medieval Welsh tradition. And Richard Wyn Jones forces Jerry Hunter to explain his dealings with this specific academic field in more detail.
Presented by: Yr Athro Jerry Hunter a’r Athro Richard Wyn Jones
Produced by: Richard Martin ar gyfer Mimosa Cymru
Music: ‘Might Have Done’ gan The Molenes