 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Hollywood romance masks gritty reality of life in old Wales; As Marc Evans' new film Dal: Yma/Nawr takes to the cinema screens,Ian Parri looks at how Wales has traditionally been depicted on celluloid.(News)
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Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
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March 8, 2004
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Byline: Ian Parri
BLACK-FACED miners spontaneously bursting out in song while on the way home from another joyful shift on the coalface,dim-witted shepherds playing their harps,and quaint country folk led by wily priests out to fox their English masters.
That is traditionally how Wales and the Welsh have been portrayed on the big screen,just as much as Ireland and the Irish once were before the Celtic Tiger's economic make over thankfully tore that stereotypi...