{"title":"‘Two hands over two sands’: Capel Bethel, Dulyn: the Welsh chapel in Dublin","authors":"Dafydd G. Roberts","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2018.1503407","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT No sense of inter-Celtic harmony underpinned the Wales-wide campaign to set up a Welsh Methodist chapel on Talbot Street, Dublin, in 1838. Rather, it was the Welsh community’s determination to take on the Church of Rome, and to ensure that the Welsh diaspora in Dublin – many of them seamen serving on vessels making the short crossing to Holyhead – would be ministered to in their native language. Bethel chapel proved to be remarkably successful, with its use of Welsh attracting the interest of members of the Gaelic League in the early twentieth century. Bethel chapel continued to be used by its Welsh congregation until 1939. The building survives as a cyber café, used by the Chinese community, and is on Dublin City Council’s record of protected structures.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/04308778.2018.1503407","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2018.1503407","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"FOLKLORE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT No sense of inter-Celtic harmony underpinned the Wales-wide campaign to set up a Welsh Methodist chapel on Talbot Street, Dublin, in 1838. Rather, it was the Welsh community’s determination to take on the Church of Rome, and to ensure that the Welsh diaspora in Dublin – many of them seamen serving on vessels making the short crossing to Holyhead – would be ministered to in their native language. Bethel chapel proved to be remarkably successful, with its use of Welsh attracting the interest of members of the Gaelic League in the early twentieth century. Bethel chapel continued to be used by its Welsh congregation until 1939. The building survives as a cyber café, used by the Chinese community, and is on Dublin City Council’s record of protected structures.
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Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies is a journal devoted to the study of all aspects of traditional ways of life in Great Britain and Ireland. The journal publishes original, high quality, peer-reviewed research in the form of unsolicited articles, solicited papers (which are usually selected from those read at the Society"s annual conference) and of members" papers (which are usually short reports of work in progress). Work published in Folk Life may include, for example, papers dealing with the traditional ways of life of other countries and regions, which may be compared to or contrasted with those of Great Britain and Ireland.