Today, the National Eisteddfod announced that Esyllt Nest Roberts de Lewis from Y Wladfa, Patagonia is this year’s Wales and the World President
Originally from Pencanewydd, not far from this year’s Eisteddfod Maes, Esyllt went to Y Wladfa in 2004 to work as a teacher on the Welsh Language Scheme. She settled there after marrying Cristian and they have two sons, Mabon, and Idris - who love visiting the family in Wales.
Esyllt works as a Welsh teacher, harp teacher, translator, and editor. She won the Urdd Eisteddfod Crown and the Chair in Eisteddfod Y Wladfa Eisteddfod, and she enjoys training children to recite and write for eisteddfodau in Y Wladfa and supporting and nurturing the Welsh culture there.
She contributes about Y Wladfa’s history and traditions to publications in Wales. She was recently elected to the working committee of Cymdeithas Cymru-Ariannin which maintains relations between Wales and Argentina and is extremely grateful for the work of the association supporting the community.
She considers this invitation to be the Wales and the World President in her childhood home to be a great privilege.
She will be honoured in a ceremony at the beginning of the Eisteddfod’s Cymanfa Ganu, held in the Pafiliwn Mawr on Sunday evening, 6 August.
The Llŷn and Eifionydd National Eisteddfod is held in Boduan from 5-12 August. For more information go to www.eisteddfod.wales.