Citations:eisteddfodau

Noun: plural form of eisteddfod

 * 1831: Peter Williams, Clerical legacy: or, A manual of sermons, pIX
 * Nor will the revival of Eisteddfodau ever bring it into vogue again: for the most one can expect from the Eisteddfodau is the publishing of some old MSS.
 * 1849: Oxford University Press, Notes and Queries, p336
 * Several eisteddfodau were held at Llanidloes under his auspices and he died there on 4th March, 1775/6.
 * 1863: George Smith & William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill Magazine: Vol. I, January to June, 1860, p484
 * Professor Jones, who for a Welshman seemed to be strangely truthful as to the merits and demerits of his countrymen, said that it was customary to deal in fulsome flattery at Eisteddfodau (which is the plural of Eisteddfod), and continued to discourse on the general question; his argument being, that if the Welsh people continued trusting to the speeches of bards in adoration of the deeds of their forefathers and the glories of their country, they would never rise from their present obscurity, and Englishmen would continue to fill the most important posts in their towns. What he advised was the utilization of the machinery in connection with Eisteddfodau.
 * 1876: Elisée Reclus et alii, The Earth and Its Inhabitants: The Universal Geography, p58
 * All men of education learn to think in English, and even at the eisteddfodau the language of the conquering Saxon struggles for preëminence with that of the vanquished Celt.
 * 1893: Eleazar Roberts, Owen Rees: A Story of Welsh Life and Thought, p295
 * At your Eisteddfodau, and I presume they have done more for the cultivation of poetry and music and general literature than anything else…
 * 1900: Sir Leslie Stephen & Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography, p465
 * In his youth he acquired a very thorough mastery of the strict metres of Welsh poetry, and from 1822 onwards won many of the chief prizes at eisteddfodau.
 * 1908: John Vyrnwy Morgan, Welsh Political and Educational Leaders in the Victorian Era, p246
 * There is sometimes a danger that institutions like these Eisteddfodau should divert the mind from the real serious and hard work of education.
 * 1912: Thomas Edward Ellis, Speeches and Addresses, p51
 * …whatever may be the laws which govern the tenure of houses or of land in Wales, we shall do, as I am glad to find the Committees of our Eisteddfodau do, our very utmost to impress upon the workmen…
 * 1939: National Library of Wales, Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: National Library of Wales Journal, p323
 * It was altogether the most successful of the Eisteddfodau under the secretaryship of Ap Caradoc…
 * 1946: Hugh Ellis Hughes, Eminent men of Denbighshire (their contribution to the story of Denbighshire and of Wales), p12
 * The old almanacs refer to the eisteddfodau which were occasionally held in some corner of Wales…
 * 1948: Charles William Wason, Annual Register, p95
 * …comparable in scale and duration with the pre-war Eisteddfodau; and in spite of greatly increased costs was financially successful beyond precedent.
 * 1956: JSTOR, The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular, p840
 * He advocated a system of grading Eisteddfodau, which would possibly obviate the constant appearances of the same winners at the smaller functions.
 * 1961: Alwyn David Rees, Life in a Welsh Countryside: A Social Study of Llanfihangel Yng Ngwynfa, p138
 * While this work was in progress prizes were won by competitors from Llanfihangel both at county eisteddfodau and at the National Youth Eisteddfod, and considerable pride was manifested recently when a native of the parish became an arweinydd at the National Eisteddfod.
 * 1961: David Williams, A short history of modern Wales: 1485 to the present day, p121
 * In the early years of the century the eisteddfodau were looked at askance by the religious denominations.
 * 1965: Arthur James Roderick, Wales Through the Ages, p163
 * And now we return to Goronwy Owen, because the standards adopted by the promoters of the Eisteddfodau were those standards of heroic poetry…
 * 1972: Trevor Fishlock, Wales & the Welsh, p1
 * …play football like princes, hew coal like heroes, live in thin valleys, fry a seaweed called laver bread with their breakfast bacon, pray in chapels, compete and dress up at eisteddfodau, speak an ancient language, write poetry, pluck harps, call daughters…
 * 1978: Gwyn Alfred Williams, The Merthyr Rising, p85
 * In the score or so eisteddfodau on record in the 1820s, however, they attracted a wider range of support…
 * 1983: J. N. Hook, Family Names: The Origins, Meanings, Mutations, and History of More Than 2,800 American Names, p80
 * Over a century ago the Eisteddfodau were brought to America.
 * 1983: Robert Griffiths, S.O. Davies — a Socialist Faith, p161
 * In his younger days he had often adjudicated at local and regional eisteddfodau, and at ‘penny readings’.
 * 1986: Anthony Burgess, But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and other writings, p73
 * Catalonia will be like Wales — eisteddfodau and signposts in the regional language.
 * 1988: Mair Elvet Thomas, Welsh Spirit of Gwent, p60
 * He did not take charge of a church but rather immersed himself in poetry, eisteddfodau and Welsh periodicals.
 * 1988: Roy Porter & Mikulás̆ Teich, Romanticism in National Context, p14
 * The first of the new eisteddfodau in 1789 were held in towns on the tourist route, Llangollen, Corwen and Bala.
 * 1989: David John Victor Jones, Rebecca’s Children: A Study of Rural Society, Crime, and Protest, p364
 * …other veterans of the Rebecca campaign presided benignly over these proceedings, as they did over a number of eisteddfodau.
 * 1990: Philip Leroy Kilbride, Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures, p103
 * It developed mainly in the nineteenth century but is connected by continuity to the eisteddfodau of medieval times.
 * 1992: Terence O. Ranger & Eric John Hobsbawm, The Invention of Tradition, p57
 * Two important eisteddfodau were held in the sixteenth century, both at Caerwys in Flintshire (1523 and 1567), but these were a sunset glow before nightfall, and efforts to recall past glory came to nothing when an eisteddfod was again planned in the 1590s.
 * 1995: Gerallt D Nash, Workmen’s Halls and Institutes: Oakdale Workmen’s Institute, p3
 * These buildings were used for concerts, eisteddfodau, political meetings, lectures, pigeon and poultry shows, dances, miners’ lodge meetings…
 * 1996: Matthew Cragoe, An Anglican Aristocracy: The Moral Economy of the Landed Estate in Carmarthenshire 1832–1895, p6
 * …as manifested through their interest in Welsh antiquarian issues and sponsorship of the regular eisteddfodau held in the county.
 * 1998: Felicia Hughes-Freeland, Ritual, Performance, Media, p149
 * Additional related features of this Welshness are those that are enshrined in the tradition of eisteddfodau and in particular in the National Eisteddfod…
 * 1998: David W. E. Willis, Syntactic Change in Welsh: A Study of the Loss of Verb-Second, p210
 * This literary activity provides the bulk of the personal letters included in the corpus — namely, letters relating to the eisteddfodau…
 * 1999: Simon Broughton et alii, World Music: The Rough Guide, p314
 * Despite this often-heard criticism, eisteddfodau have played a major role in keeping…
 * 1999: Gypsy Lore Society, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, p82
 * And his sons won many prizes in different eisteddfodau within the last forty years.
 * 2000: Nicholas R. Mann & Maya Magee Sutton, Druid Magic: The Practice of Celtic Wisdom, p198
 * Subsequent Eisteddfodau were events under the patronage of the rich who welcomed associations with the past as a means of elevating their prestige…
 * 2003: Clive Barker & Simon Trussler, New Theatre Quarterly 74: Volume 19, Part 2, p175
 * By the end of the nineteenth century there was a nationwide pyramid of eisteddfodau.
 * 2003: Daniel R. Woolf, The Social Circulation of the Past: English Historical Culture 1500–1730, p355
 * But with the possible exception of the eisteddfodau, which were a Welsh national rather than a genuinely local practice…
 * 2003: David Else, Britain, p791
 * Up to 15,000 performers qualify through a series of local and regional eisteddfodau.
 * 2005: W. L. Hubbard, The American History and Encyclopedia of Music Dictionary, p184
 * The modern Eisteddfodau are held annually and are designed to encourage native poetry, music, patriotism and the study of the Welsh language.