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The 'Dead Enigma': Hedd Wyn and Francis Ledwidge and the Welsh National Eisteddfod

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In September 1917, the Welsh National Eisteddfod was held at Birkenhead Park, on the Wirral, only the third time it had been held outside the Principality. A huge crowd, including the Prime Minister David Lloyd George himself a Welsh language speaker, had gathered to take part in this annual celebration of Welsh culture and language. The highligh…