Why is our connection with Wales so weak?

Methodism was still tempered by the crown requirement that all methodist preachers had to train in Anglican seminaries and not preach or compete against the established church. That is why in so many towns the methodist hall was outside the civil parish boundary.

The south & west Welsh are fine people in my book, I've traveled extensively around the scenic south west coastal counties & always got on well with them, had a great time watching Hurling in Llanelli & Carmarthen pubs, they are fascinated by it & actually used to have their own version, I've seen the auld sticks in St Fagans museum outside Cardiff.

I'm of course biased as I have Welsh relatives & friends & Wexford / Waterford roots. My grandmother had an Irish name connected with a now suburb of Cardiff, there are of course many Welsh origin surnames in Ireland, particularly in the south east coast counties. Many people in Cardiff have some Irish blood & the inner Cardiff City accent is considered to be a variant of Munster English, it's different to the small towns & villages outside. As for Irish immigration there traditionally was a lot to Wales, perhaps not so apparent during the post war period.

As for the Welsh language, hearing it in Cardiff was rare during the 'mid '80's. Nowadays it is very common, travel up to the Valley towns & it is even more prominent, especially amongst the younger generation.

I know it's easy to be critical of folk, my auld Wexford uncle doesn't like the Dubs, Nordies & Scots plus Northern English, loves the rest of the English & the Welsh, I'd try & say I've met some decent people from those places LOL!

From the pov of future historians, as Andrew Roberts has pointed out, the US and Britain could be seen as one Anglo entity in two related parts, like the Western and Eastern Roman Empire.

I would say its more to do with them living in the sea and us living on land.

It’s little more than a county council talking shop.

But if people wanna con themselves that it’s a parliament….

Personally myself i think Wales is a great country with great people. Wales doesn't suffer from the same sectarian problems, that exist in Scotland and the north of Ireland either. As i say i love Wales, it really is an underrated country in my opinion.

O’Hanlon notes that just 10% of Ireland is under forest cover and, as we’ve stated in the past, it’s understood that just 1% of that is made-up of native Irish trees. If you’ve followed our work in the past you’ll know just how important native trees area to the surrounding environment.These incredibly low numbers are primarily due to human activity in the 18th and 19th centuries, and to a lesser extent also activities in the early 20th century.

You can blame them. A lot of the deforestation occurred when they were here. Remember that the people who owned the bland were mainly absentee landlords who wanted to make sure they could extract as much money as possible from the land. Forests don't generate money.

That's not to say that Irish governments haven't done their parts. They supported planting sitka and they destroyed our bogs. But it is possible to lay the blame for a lot at the feet of the british.

Because the overriding obsession with and barely disguised hatred of the English equates Welsh with English Lite as said half jokingly (or maybe not).

Ignorance, basically.

I know there is a dislike in Wales towards England but imo its not the sort of historic hatred that ourselves and Scotland would have towards them

Wales looks a beautiful country and they seem nice people, going to Cardiff next month cant wait for it. Pity i wont have time to see the Valleys

Out of all the Celtic nations, the Cornish and Britons are the less known ones, those Cornish lads took no **** id say