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Bha Bagh Chardiff, neo Tiger Bay mar a b’fhearr a dh’aithnichear e, ainmeil.  Fìor thrang le às-mhalairt a’ghuail, bha e air leth tarraingeach dha seòladairean agus feadhainn eile a bha a’ sireadh obrach.   Sann an uairsin, san naoidheamh linn deug, a thòisich eachdraidh nan Somalianach sa bhaile.  Tha uidhir ann a-nis ‘s gur ann an Cardiff a tha a’choimhearsnachd as motha de Shomalianaich a rugadh ann am Breatainn.   Agus mar a tha Angela Nic’Illeathain ag aithris tha an ceangal ris an t-seann dùthaich fhathast gu math làidir.

Cardiff Bay, or Tiger Bay as it was known, was famous.  Once bustling with ships exporting coal, it attracted sailors and other workers from all over the world.  It was then, in the nineteenth century, that Somalis first came to the city.  The community has grown to the extent that Cardiff now has the largest British born Somali population in the UK.  And as Angela MacLean reports many still feel a very strong sense of connection with their homeland.