Fighting Poverty – Plaid’s Role over the Years
More 28/02/2023Valuable information has come to light about Plaid Cymru’s role in combating poverty in the nineteen thirties.
Papers transferred to the care of the Plaid Cymru History Society by Siôn ap Glyn show the extent of practical work done to help unemployed people and their families in underprivileged areas in the North and South. ‘Clybiau Cinio Difiau’ – Thursday Dinner Clubs – were set up by Plaid Cymru during the Great Depression which hit Wales especially hard nearly ninety years ago, by a small party that had been launched barely a decade before.
As pointed out by Saunders Lewis, Plaid Cymru’s President at the time, the aim was for people in employment to help those less fortunate by foregoing one meal a week and giving sixpence to provide food for the unemployed. Thursday was the day suggested to hold the dinner clubs, mainly because by Thursday many poor families would run out ...
Kitch – Lecture by M Wynn Thomas
More 12/08/2022“Kitchener Davies – from Tregaron to Trealaw “
Lecture by Athro M Wynn Thomas Thursday 4 August 2022 12.30pm Pabell y Cymdeithasau 2 in the Eisteddfod Genedlaethol. Chairman Dafydd Williams
James Kitchener Davies, brought up in the Tregaron area of Ceredigion, won renown as a poet and dramatist. He was also a leading figure in Plaid Cymru at a time when it was a small movement seeking a foothold in the valleys of the South. In this lecture, the author and academic Wynn Thomas presents a penetrating analysis of an ...
Pat Larsen 1926 – 2021
More 06/12/2021Tributes have been paid by family and friends to former Councillor on Gwynedd Council, Pat Larsen, who passed away at Gwynfa on 20 November 2021.
A former primary school teacher Mrs Larsen served as Mayor on the former Arfon District Council. She was a member of the former Gwynedd Council and was elected onto the newly formed Gwynedd Council in 1996. She was its first chairman in 1996-98.
Apart from a period when her children were small she had been a councillor for over 50 years. One Penisarwaun resident said many villagers could not remember a time when Mrs Larsen was not their councillor.Paying tribute in a message to the Larsen family on social media Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP Liz Saville Roberts said: “I am proud to have known Pat Larsen when she was a ...
Wil Roberts 1943 – 2022
More 17/11/2022Wil Roberts, or Wil Coed as he was universally known, was a well-known figure in Plaid Cymru who died in October 2022. He played an active role in all the party’s campaigns from the nineteen sixties and served as secretary of the Pwllheli branch. Former Plaid Cymru leader Dafydd Wigley delivered the eulogy in his funeral which we publish in full.
Translation of the Funeral Tribute by Dafydd Wigley
to the late Wil Roberts.Dear Friends,
I would give anything not to be here today; but nothing would have stopped me from accepting the invitation from Siw and the family, for me to pay this tribute, on behalf of Elinor and myself, to one who was such a friend to us all, in differing ways and at different stages of our lives. He was ...
Penri Jones 1943 – 2021
More 29/12/2021Penri Jones, Author of Jabas, Councillor and Welsh language activist has died at the age of 78 years.
A tribute by Liz Saville Roberts:
Penri is well known to generations of Welsh people as the author who created the character Jabas. But there was much more to Penri: Author of a number of novels, a Welsh language teacher and a highly regarded local politician.
I had the privilege of working with Penri when Coleg Meirion Dwyfor opened in 1993. He was amongst a number of teachers who chose to come to the new college to be able to provide Welsh language education of the highest standard.
As well as working as a lead teacher, he represented Llanbedrog Community on Gwynedd Council as a Plaid Cymru councillor where he held the education portfolio for many ...
Jill Evans, Member of the European Parliament
Jill Evans
MEP 1999 – 2020
Looking back over my career in the European Parliament, it’s hard to believe that it spanned over twenty years. In an article like this it is only possible to give readers a taste of the work of an MEP and try to demonstrate how valuable the European Union was to Wales.
When I first stood for Plaid in the European election in 1989, there was no hope of winning. By 1999 the electoral system had changed. Five MEPs were to be elected representing the whole of Wales on the basis of the percentage vote for each party nationally. With the highest ever vote for Plaid Cymru and with great excitement, Eurig Wyn and myself were elected as the party’s first MEPs. It was a milestone in Plaid’s history.
More 26/09/2021
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