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CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION PLAID CYMRU 1924 – 2024

7pm Friday, 12th January 2024

Belle Vue Community Centre, Albert Crescent, Penarth, CF64 1BY

Entrance fee: £10 (concessions available)

Host:  Heledd Fychan,  Senedd Member (South Wales Central)

And in conversation:

Leanne Wood, Plaid Cymru Leader 2012-18

Richard Wyn Jones, Director, Welsh Governance Centre

Come and celebrate the centenary of this historic meeting: 

In January 1924, four Welsh nationalists met at 9 Bedwas Place, Penarth, and recorded their decision to create “Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru”: the National Party of Wales. A year later this led to the public launch of the new party at the 1925 National Eisteddfod in Pwllheli. Those present at the meeting in Bedwas Place were Ambrose Bebb, Griffith John Williams, Elizabeth Williams and Saunders Lewis, the great poet  and playwright and future leader of the party, who subsequently lived in Penarth from 1952 until his death in 1985.

Heledd will invite Leanne and Richard to discuss the past 100 years of Plaid Cymru’s existence and also look into the future, before opening up the event to questions and comments from the audience.

Tea/coffee and some Welsh savouries will be available for no charge.

For more information, please contact Cllr. Chris Franks at: familyfranks@btinternet.com

Plaid Cymru will celebrate the life of the late Professor Phil Williams, the party’s candidate in the Caerffili by-election fifty years ago with a special meeting in the Cardiff National Eisteddfod (at 11:45am, Thursday, 9 August 2018).

The meeting, organised by the Plaid Cymru History Society, will take place in the Eisteddfod’s Societies 3 room in the Senedd, Cardiff Bay.

“Phil Williams inspired a whole generation to realise what Wales could achieve – if we win the right as a nation to govern our own lives,” said the Plaid History chairman and former party general secretary Dafydd Williams.

Former Ceredigion MP and Assembly Member Cynog Dafis and Dafydd Williams will be leading discussion of Phil Williams’ contribution to Wales.

Translation facilities from Welsh to English will be available.

 

Members of Plaid Cymru History Society are invited to the conference launch of the newly published novel ‘Ten Million Stars Are Burning’ in Plaid Cymru’s Spring Conference in the Pavilion, Llangollen at 4:45pm Friday 23 March 2018.

The book is the first of a trilogy by the well-known writer and commentator John Osmond. It traces the big changes in Wales between the two devolution referenda of 1979 and 1997, through the eyes of two fictional characters – and a host of real-life players! John will be in conversation with the Chair of the Society, Dafydd Williams.

 

Join us this year on Saturday 14 September 2013.

Gather at car park of Ysgol Tregib, Llandeilo, SA19 6TB at 4.00pm.

Proceed to memorial. Brief Presentation.

Then at 7.00pm.

Evening of entertainment with ‘Jac y Do’ and buffet at the Mountain Gate, Rhydaman.

Only £15 with all profit to Gwynfor Memorial Fund.

Pre booking needed for evening.

sethomas@sirgar.gov.uk

01269 842151

A special edition of the Welsh Nation was published in 1975

Link > Welsh Nation 1975

The Plaid Cymru History Society is keen to hear the voices of the women of Plaid Cymru. Do you have any stories, photos or archive you’d like to share with us? Get in touch! We’re now on Facebook under ‘Hanes Plaid Cymru History’ or you can email me direct on history@hanesplaidcymru.org

Plaid Cymru History Society is collecting old Plaid publications. During and after J.E.Jones’ period as Secretary the leaders of Plaid Cymru were very active setting out their position and vision for the furture of Wales.

The publications that have recently been put on the Society’s website include ‘Wales as an Economic Entity’ and ‘TV in Wales’ by Gwynfor Evans and  ‘Self-Government’ by Phil Williams.

Also on the website there are a number of leaflets from the 1960s including the 1966 By-election and Vic Davies’ By-election in the Rhondda.

10th September – Saturday: 4.30pm

Venue Cymru, Llandudno

 

J.E. JONES

‘Pensaer Plaid Cymru’ – ‘Plaid Cymru Architect’

gan by

Dafydd Williams

J E Jones took up the position of General Secretary Plaid Cymru in 1930, five years after the formation of the party. He was to remain at his post for thirty years, a period that witnessed the burning of the bombing school at Penyberth and the campaigns to defend the Epynt Mountain and  Cwm Tryweryn .

In this presentation, another former General Secretary will look at the unique career  of the man who became known as the architect of Plaid Cymru.