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The first published date of this piece,also known as Captain Morgan's March, is 1784, when it appeared in Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards in London. It is sung to honour the winning Ba...

This has invariably been seen as a 'march to battle' song, whereas in fact it refers to the siege of Harlech Castle. King Edward IV of England ordered the Earl of Pembroke to lead a powerful army to d...

Snowdon has always been a powerful symbol in Wales: as early as 1230 Llewelyn the Great proclaimed himself Lord of Eryri (Snowdonia).

The bard, Hoel ap Einion, fell in love with the celebrated Myfanwy Vechan, who lived at Castel Dinas Bran, in the Vale of Llangollen around 1390. He died brokenhearted because she rejected him.

This song was sung by a comic Welsh character in the Drury Lane opera Liberty Hall in 1785 and was subsequently included in many volumes of songs by the same composer. This led to it gradually being t...

Tradition has always held that this song commemorates the great battle under Offa of Mercia and Caradoc. The real origin is unknown. It is the lament of a nation brokenhearted under a great disaster.

In 1778 two Irish ladies selected Llangollen as their future home and built Plas Newydd. They lived there for about fifty years, their powers of conversation and somewhat eccentric reputation drawing...

This poem is attributed to Heledd, daughter of Cyndrwyn, whose brothers were all killed during the troubles years following the building of King Offa's Dyke, between 757 and 796. Her lament is for her...

This song may refer to Prince Madoc, born in North Wales between 1134 and 1142. He was an explorer and possibly landed in America around 1170. He supposedly found a land 'affording health, aire, gold,...

The 'lady' is Gwenllian, daughter of Rhys ab Gruffydd, Prince of South Wales, and the first wife of Ednyfed Vychan, chief counsellor of Llewellyn ab Iorweth, Prince of North Wales. She was eminent amo...

This is the North Wales version of an old song of the Druids. 'Hob y deri danno' literally means 'The swine (or pig) under the oaks'.

This song is said to have been a favourite of Henry V (1387-1422) when he was the Prince of Wales, and used to be sung by the Prince and his companions at the Boar's Head Tavern, Cheapside.