The Welsh Diaspora
Feb. 15th, 2008 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
steepholm"Can you name a Welsh person who became famous without having to leave Wales to do it?" asked my son.
After some umming and aahing I wondered about Catherine Fisher, but she's not famous enough, apparently - at least yet. Dylan Thomas? But he did a lot of networking, and indeed living, in London and elsewhere, didn't he? Owain Glyndwr, perhaps? Oh darn - even he spent quite a bit of time in England, IIRC. Same with Giraldus Cambrensis. Then there are Taliesin, Gwydion, Pryderi, and all their chums from the Mabinogion. But I think being mythical probably disqualifies them.
Oh gosh, I feel there must be hundreds, but my mind's a blank!
After some umming and aahing I wondered about Catherine Fisher, but she's not famous enough, apparently - at least yet. Dylan Thomas? But he did a lot of networking, and indeed living, in London and elsewhere, didn't he? Owain Glyndwr, perhaps? Oh darn - even he spent quite a bit of time in England, IIRC. Same with Giraldus Cambrensis. Then there are Taliesin, Gwydion, Pryderi, and all their chums from the Mabinogion. But I think being mythical probably disqualifies them.
Oh gosh, I feel there must be hundreds, but my mind's a blank!