Sunday Review: Putting Wales First: the Political Thought of Plaid Cymru, Volume 1 Richard Wyn Jones, 2024 (trans. Tom Ellis with Lowri Edwards and Richard Wyn Jones)

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Sunday Review: Putting Wales First: the Political Thought of Plaid Cymru, Volume 1 Richard Wyn Jones, 2024 (trans. Tom Ellis with Lowri Edwards and Richard Wyn Jones)

Putting Wales First: the Political Thought of Plaid Cymru by Richard Wyn Jones  Desmond Clifford In my counter factual narrative, Wales’ nationalist party was founded in the 1890s in Merthyr, or perhaps Llanelli, by trade unionists, teachers and industrial workers. In reality Plaid Cymru was founded in Pwllheli in 1925 by academics and ministers of religion. Its themes were the Welsh language and an otherworldly essence of ‘Welshness’, a form of…