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The Chairing of the Bard (Welsh: Cadeirio'r Bardd) is one of the most important events in the Welsh eisteddfod tradition. The most famous chairing ceremony...

Eisteddfod history was the award of the 1917 chair to the poet Ellis Humphrey Evans, bardic name Hedd Wyn, for the poem Yr Arwr (The Hero). The winner was announced...

the history of the Mòd that such an award had been granted to a Gaelic poet from the Scottish diaspora. Chairing of the Bard National Eisteddfod: the...

including the Crowning of the Bard, the award of the Prose Medal [cy] and the Chairing of the Bard. Although Iolo Morganwg was the first to preside over the Gorsedd...

The English term bard is a loan word from the Celtic languages: Gaulish: bardo- ('bard, poet'), Middle Irish: bard and Scottish Gaelic: bàrd ('bard,...

the awarding of a chair is a very old tradition, the now-familiar ceremony of the chairing of the bard who has composed the best awdl dates from the eisteddfod...

Prifardd, literally The Chief Bard, is the Welsh title given to bards who have won either the chair or the crown in the National Eisteddfod of Wales. It is a...

Throne Chair at their coronation. (Note: St. Edward's Chair in Westminster Abbey is not generally considered to be a throne.) Chairing of the Bard in Wales...

who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I. He was posthumously awarded the bard's chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod...

of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The school is an "early college", designed for students to enroll immediately after completing the tenth...

design and execute new regalia for the Grand Bard, the Deputy Grand Bard and the Secretary, and two headpieces for the Marshal's staves. Over time, and...

Ellen M. Bard (January 11, 1949 – October 28, 2009) was an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives...

Beirdd ("the Gorsedd of the bards") for short. At the Chairing Ceremony of 2019 National Eisteddfod, Archdruid Myrddin ap Dafydd announced that the society...

Cynan is also responsible for designing the modern ceremonies of the Crowning and the Chairing of the Bard in the Eisteddfod as they are now performed,...

Ralph Austin Bard (July 29, 1884 – April 5, 1975) was a Chicago financier who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1941–1944, and as Under Secretary...

of the Atlanta Hawks, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, and Atlanta Journal newspapers. Chambers also resides on the Board of Trustees of Bard College...

Joseph Bard (December 18, 1933 – February 11, 2024) was an American chemist. He was the Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair Professor and director of the Center...

to be the largest music and poetry festival in Europe. The main competition events are the Crowning of the Bard and the Chairing of the Bard. The 2018...

At the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Birkenhead, the Chairing of the Bard ceremony ends with the chair draped in black, the winner, Hedd Wyn, having died...

towards the Battle of Passchendaele in which he will be killed a fortnight later. On September 6 at the ceremony of Chairing of the Bard at the Eisteddfod...