Happy birthday to Ivor The Engine, the little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company, who first appeared on our screens today in 1959. Toot-toot!
#onthisday #otd #wales
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Art Historian | Arts Journalist | Cultural Adventurer. Author and PhD researcher in the Gothic and the uncanny in visual culture. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast. Made in Port Talbot. Happiest at Halloween.
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Star Wars is to be dubbed into Welsh for the first time as the classic film prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary next year.
Actor Matthew Rhys will voice Han Solo, with Rhys Ifans as Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Princess Leia.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2jpy0q7jvo
Celebrating July 4th at the Overlook Hotel's 1921 ball.
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#July4th #4thOfJuly
Welsh folklore tells us to take it easy on the Thursday before Easter... or else: ⚡
"Maundy Thursday was important for doing good deeds. If anybody performed unnecessary work on this day they would be in danger of being stricken by thunder & lightning."
Folklore of Wales, 1909
Happy International Bat Appreciation Day! 🦇
🎨"The Witch’s Sister on her Black Bat" (1921) by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
#InternationalBatAppreciationDay
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Oh, and Paul Robeson plays an important role in Welsh National Opera's excellent Blaze of Glory!, on now in Cardiff before touring England and then back to Swansea in May. My Western Mail review here: https://www.magzter.com/stories/newspaper/Western-Mail/GLORIOUS-OPERA-WEARS-ITS-WELSH-IDENTITY-ON-ITS-SLEEVE