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On 21 December 2016, Valletta 2018 Chairman Jason Micallef, the Hon. Dr Godfrey Farrugia MP and photographer Patrick J. Fenech addressed the press during the launch of BDL Publications' new book THE MALTESE VILLAGE FESTA - A Traditional Yearly Ritual. The event was held at the Malta Chamber of Commerce in Valletta.
See the book here: bit.ly/MalteseVillageFesta
With ov...
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For the vast majority of us, Maltese folk-singing (Għana) is at best a closed book, a genre which we cannot understand. At worst,it is a monotonous wail practiced in backward villages in the past, and soon to disappear. In past centuries in Malta, Casha reflects, 'Ghana was an expression of the common people 'il-popolin'. It was the voice of the working classes and the peasant communitie...
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Great books at unbeatable prices!!
Venue: Villa Madama, Balzan (near San Anton Gardens)
Friday 29th April - Sunday 8th May from 10am - 9pm
A vast selection of children's books, adult fiction, melitensia, art books, cookery books, novels, reference, archaeology and much more!
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The Malta Map Society will be launching the book The Pre-Siege Maps of Malta Second Century AD – 1564 on Tuesday 3 May 2016 at the Casino Maltese, Republic Street, Valletta at 6.30p.m.
The book embraces all the pre-Siege separate maps of Malta, whether manuscript or printed, as well as the appearance of Malta on the maps of the Mediterranean drawn by Ptolemy in the second century...
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Għalkemm twelidt l-Isla, fi Strada S. Giuseppe, tgħammidt fil-knisja tal-Vitorja fejn ukoll għamilt il-Preċett u dħalt għall-ewwel darba fl-iskola primarja tal-Isla, issa għaddew 75 sena minn meta jien irqadt l-Isla għall-aħħar darba.
Infatti xħin sebaħ il-11 ta’ Ġunju, 1940, ommi qajmitni bilwieqfa fuq is-sodda, libbsitni malajr waqt li kien jinstema’ sparar ta’ kanun...
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'Dejjem hawn dawn, jieħdu t-te u l-pastizzi! Ara jgħidux li qed ibatu!’ qal bejnu u bejn ruħu s-Sur Benjamin, hu u ħiereġ mill-karozza pinna u tleqq bid-dawl tax-xemx fuqha li kien għadu kemm xtara xi ftit xhur ilu. ‘Naħseb ħaqqni karozza ġdida. Mhux il-ħin kollu naħdem jien, u nistinka? Ingawdi ftit jien għal darba, nista’! Mhux dejjem taraw x’ħa tivvintaw tal-ispejjeż in...
