From Cymru Fydd to Plaid Cymru – The Journey
12/08/2025PLAID CYMRU HISTORY SOCIETY
WREXHAM NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD – SOCIETIES TENT
12.30pm, THURSDAY 7 AUGUST 2025
Translation of Lecture by Ieuan Wyn Jones
‘From Cymru Fydd to Plaid Cymru – The Journey’
‘Tom Ellis was the greatest, truest patriot amongst the Members of Parliament during the “Cymru Fydd” period, at the end of the century. Unfortunately, he accepted a position in his English party, and died shortly afterwards, a year before the turn of that century. He remained a hero in the county though, in our area at least, and his old house was not far from Felin-y-Wig. A large picture of him stood above our fireside mantelpiece at home in the Foty Fawr, and beneath it his words: “Self-government is the inspiration and aim of a nation”. His stance on behalf of Wales remained in our area’s memory and was passed on to us children.’
Excerpt from ‘Tros Gymru’ (1970), p. 21, by J.E. ...
Plaid Cymru 1925 – 2025
18/07/2025
Celebrating the birth of Plaid Cymru 100 years ago
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. ...A timeline of the history of Plaid Cymru 1925-2025
12/08/2025The National Library of Wales holds Plaid Cymru’s substantial archive, which, along with a large number of the party’s publications are available for researchers to study. To mark the centenary of the founding of the party as Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru in 1925 a selection of Plaid Cymru’s manifestos, publications and items from the archive has been digitised in order to create a timeline showing the main highlights of the party’s history.
Link > Archive
Launch of new book ‘Dros Gymru’n Gwlad’
18/07/2025“Dros Gymru’n Gwlad – Hanes Sefydlu Plaid Cymru”.
On 17 July 2025 the authors Arwel Vittle and Gwen Gruffudd came to the Pierhead Building to discuss with Karl Davies their new book about the establishment of the National Party of Wales. The event was sponsored by Mabon ap Gwynfor AS and organised by Plaid Cymru History Society.
Here is an opportunity to listen to this very interesting discussion about the start of Plaid Cymru in the period leading up to 1925.
Thank you to Senedd Cymru for providing the record.
Political Lives – Saunders Lewis
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 ...
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