Y Drysorfa was a Calvinistic

Calvinism

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 Methodist

Methodism

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 publication produced in Wales

Wales

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 and written in the Welsh language

Welsh language

Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

. Although published intermittenly before 1930, it became a regular publication in 1931, when preacher John Parry became its editor.

Publication history

Y Drysorfa began as a quarterly publication, and two of its early editors included Thomas Jones

Thomas Jones of Denbigh

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 and Thomas Charles

Thomas Charles

Thomas Charles was a Welsh Nonconformist clergyman of considerable importance in the history of modern Wales.-Early life:...

, leading figures in the religious and educational development of Wales.

Y Drysorfa, under the editorship of John Parry, became a monthly periodical published by the Calvinistic Methodist Church of Wales

Presbyterian Church of Wales

The Presbyterian Church of Wales , also known as The Calvinistic Methodist Church , is a denomination of Protestant Christianity. It was born out of the Welsh Methodist revival and the preaching of Hywel Harris Howell Harris in the 18th century and seceded from the Church of England in 1811...

, originally dealing with the Methodist faith, and featured columns such as 'Hanesiaeth Cenhadol', a regular column containing letters from missionaries around the world. Y Drysorfa became a periodocal that would also publish poems and literary work from ministers, preachers and its general readership, and was the first publication to serialize Daniel Owen

Daniel Owen

Daniel Owen was a Welsh novelist, generally regarded as the foremost Welsh-language novelist of the 19th century.-Early life:...

's earliest work, including the novel Rhys Lewis

Rhys Lewis

Rhys Lewis is a novel by Daniel Owen, written in the Welsh language and first published in 1885. Its full title is Hunangofiant Rhys Lewis, Gweinidog Bethel...

.

On 26 August 1843, Sir Hugh Owen, wrote in the publication his 'Letter to the Welsh People', regarding the adoption of day schools, which resulted in the appointment of an agent of the British and Foreign Schools Society in North Wales.

The publication ran for over a hundred years, finally folding in 1968.