nickname the Welsh national anthem. A phonetic transliteration of the title and first-line of Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau (The Land of my Fathers), first published in 1860. There are a number of humorous variations of the continuing lyric but the first line is a constant; dating from the 1990s. Credited to the poet Nigel Jenkins, it may have been inspired by English politicians inability to learn the Welsh words UK: WALES, 1994