Tŷ Hiraeth
[tee heer-eyeth] · the house of hiraethNot a fan club, not a velvet rope. A house with the door open, and a room that is still being furnished.
Join Tŷ HiraethTŷ Hiraeth is for the Welsh at home, watching the world discover their country a little late. For the Welsh abroad, carrying a longing for home in a language most of their neighbours have never heard spoken. And for everyone in between, arriving by whatever door they found.
Welsh at Home
Living in Wales, watching your own culture get “discovered” by strangers, and wanting a hand in how that story gets told.
Welsh Abroad
Carrying a piece of Wales through an American life, a name people mispronounce, a coastline seen only in photographs.
Found Through DNA
You sent off a cheek swab expecting one answer and got a great-great-grandparent from Merthyr instead. Now what?
The Curious
You found us through Welcome to Wrexham, or the clip of Michael Sheen roaring the team on before kickoff. That’s a fine place to start. Come further in.
Two rooms, so far
A house is only what you put in it. Right now that means an essay or two, and a letter we’re still learning how to write.
Add a screenshot of the blog here once the layout is settled.
The Diaspora Dispatch
Essays on Welsh culture, language, and the people carrying both a long way from home. Written slowly, and kept, because the places we gather online forget by design.
Read the DispatchThe Newsletter
A monthly note home: what has been written here, and what is on wherever Welsh people gather in America. Choirs, dinners, festivals, the lot.
Leave an address and the first one will find you.
The door is open, the room is still filling
Tŷ Hiraeth is early. That’s said plainly rather than dressed up, because arriving early is the point: what it becomes is still open, and the people who turn up now are the ones who decide.
Bring a story, a question, a photograph of home, or nothing at all. Reading quietly for a while counts.
If you’re working to keep Welsh culture, language and identity alive for communities abroad, we’d like to build something together. Cultural programming, cross-promotion, storytelling: we’re open to the conversation.
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