This volume gives the story of the National Eisteddfod that visited Birkenhead in September 1917, when it was announced that the winning poet, a Welsh shepherd from Trawsfynydd, Private Ellis Humphrey Evans, known as Hedd Wyn, had died on Pilkem Ridge on 31 July. Friends of Birkenhead Park, schools in Wales and on Merseyside, poets, soldiers, politicians, celebrities and choirs all came together 100 years later to a unique Festival to celebrate this sad event.
This bilingual work will assist us to relive the two days of the Black Chair Festival. The organiser of the Festival, Dr D. Ben Rees, a founding member of the Merseyside Welsh heritage Society, is also the editor of this volume.
