Gwynfor v Margaret

I've just enjoyed listening to Rob Gittins' radio drama on iPlayer, and would like to recommend it to everyone else.

Click to play or download the mp3.

     

One moral man standing up for something important enough to give his life for
... and winning!

Ysgol Sant Gwynfor

The Vale of Glamorgan Council has refused to allow the new Welsh-medium starter school in Barry to name itself after Gwynfor Evans. Apparently this is considered "too political".

Gwynfor Evans new school name in Barry 'too political' – BBC, 25 May 2011

There has obviously been some misunderstanding. As anyone in Plaid Cymru will tell you, Gwynfor wasn't a politician ... he was a saint.

Two other WM primaries—Ysgol Sant Curig and Ysgol Sant Baruc—are named after local saints, so it is hard to see why the new school shouldn't follow this tradition and be called Ysgol Sant Gwynfor.

Gwynfor

To celebrate what would be Gwynfor Evans' birthday, here is a recording of him speaking immediately after he was elected in the Carmarthen by election in July 1966. This was the first time Plaid Cymru had won a seat at Westminster.

There are versions in English and Welsh.
 

     

     

Stirring stuff. A reminder of how just how far behind as a nation we were before, and an inspiration to keep going until we take our own place as an independent nation in the UN and Europe ... a responsible member of the great community of nations in the world.

Thanks to Hedd Gwynfor for putting together the videos.