The Word
A Word With No English Twin
Hiraeth usually means an ache for a home you've left. No one tells you it can also be the ache for a home you're standing inside of for the first time.
Dyfed Thomas, co-founder
“Every man has two deaths: when he is buried in the ground, and the last time someone says his name.”
Ernest HemingwayWales has been quietly fighting that second death for a long time: in kitchens, on bar napkins, in every mangled place name. Hiraeth exists so it has to wait longer still. Not nostalgia. Continuity.