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