Celebrating the birth of Plaid Cymru 100 years ago
More 03/07/2025Saturday, 21 June, 2025 a Rally was held in Pwllheli to celebrate 100 years since Plaid Cymru was formed.
Address by Kiera Marshall at the Pwllheli Rally 21 June 2025:-
It is truly an honour to be here today – to celebrate 100 years of Plaid Cymru. A century of standing up for Wales.
For our language,
For our communities,
and for our future.Our party was founded on two simple but powerful principles that remain at our core today.
The first: Wales should govern itself. Home rule or self-determination. The belief that decisions about Wales should be made in Wales, by the people of Wales. A belief that other parties still, after all this time, still struggle to understand.
The second principle is our language. Cymraeg. The right to live in our in language. ...Political Lives – Saunders Lewis
More 24/06/2025The Coppieters Foundation in cooperation with Fundació Josep Irla has published the fourth issue of Political Lives devoted to Saunders Lewis (1893–1985).
Link to order the issue > Linc
Lewis was a prominent Welsh politician, writer, academic, and activist whose life and work significantly shaped Welsh cultural and political identity.
Born in England to Welsh-speaking parents, Lewis grew up immersed in Welsh language and culture despite his surroundings.
After serving as a lieutenant in World War I, he pursued higher education, earning degrees in English and French, and later a Master’s focusing on English poetry’s influence on Welsh writers.
His early career as a lecturer at University College Swansea marked a productive period in his literary and political development, during which he ...
Tribute to Lord Dafydd Ellis Thomas 1946 – 2025
More 02/04/2025Tribute given in Welsh at the funeral of Lord Dafydd Ellis Thomas in Llandaff Cathedral on 14 March 2025 by Aled Eurig
We are here to celebrate the life of The Right Honourable Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas of Nant Conwy – born 18 October 1946, died 7 February 2025, known to most of us here, as ‘Dafydd El’.
He has been recognised as one of the most influential Welsh political figures of the past fifty years, a ‘founding father’ of the Senedd, a ‘political giant’.
He was born in Carmarthen, and brought up in Llanrwst in the Conwy valley. His father, WE Thomas, was a prominent Presbyterian minister and his mother Eirlys, a cultural leader in her community. In chapel and school concerts, Dafydd was a precocious child, and trained in public performance and debating skills from ...
Book Launch
More 27/06/2025“Dros Gymru’n Gwlad – Hanes Sefydlu Plaid Cymru”.
Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay. 17 July 2025 6.30pm – 9pm
Link For tickets > Linc
Come to hear Arwel Vittle and Gwen Gruffudd discussing their new book with Karl Davies in an event sponsored by Mabon ap Gwynfor MS and organised by Plaid Cymru History Society, with an opportunity to buy the book signed by them. There is no entrance fee but you must reserve a place beforehand through Eventbrite . Proceedings will be in Welsh and simultaneous translation will be available.
Remembering O.P. Huws 1943 – 2025
More 05/06/2025REMEMBERING O.P. HUWS
On behalf of the members of the Nantlle Valley Branch.
O.P. was an inspiration to us all; a leader by instinct and full of fun and mischief. He worked tirelessly on councils and in the community for the welfare of the people of the Valley, to promote work opportunities and to protect the Welsh language and our heritage. A man of the people who did the ‘small things’ but one who saw far. The Nebo and Dyffryn Nantlle area were fortunate to have such a lively character among us.
O.P. was never still. There was too much to do. One of his frequent sayings was, “If you want something done, ask a busy man.” And O.P. was a busy man.
His great hero was Wmffra Roberts, – County Councilor and Dafydd Wigley’s Agent in the ...
Tributes to Emrys Roberts 1931 – 2025
More 01/04/2025EMRYS ROBERTS 1931-2025
The uncompromising nationalist and radical who became the first Plaid Cymru council leader.
Dafydd Williams
I met Emrys Roberts for the first time in a meeting of Exeter University’s Debating Society. It was the early sixties, and I was a student of economics while Emrys had recently become Plaid Cymru’s General Secretary. We were treated to a lively and effective address by a speaker with loads of charisma – he was surely one the party’s best ever orators. It included Plaid’s views on international affairs and nuclear weapons.
But what sticks out in my memory is the skilful humour with which he dealt with loaded questions. One person insisted that the only reason he wanted self-government was to wage war. Not a bit of it, responded Emrys with his wry smile, Plaid’s master plan was to ...
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