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Abstract

The Eisteddfod is at the heart of the Welsh culture, although itself largely a Victorian re-invention of an older practice. I recall as a child competing in the Urdd (youth) Eisteddfod and last year I was fortunate enough to see my own daughters' choir win in the International Music Eisteddfod (the Welsh approach to music is rather like the ACM approach to computing: the rest of the world is ranked in a single lumpen).