1975 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1975 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Charles
- Princess of Wales – vacant
- Secretary of State for Wales – John Morris
- Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
- Brinli (outgoing)
- R. Bryn Williams (incoming)
Events
- 20 March - Opening of the Cleddau Bridge at Milford Haven.[1]
- 14 April - Actor/singer Michael Flanders dies suddenly of an intracranial berry aneurysm while on holiday in Betws-y-Coed.
- May - A leak from the Esso Tenby tanker off the coast of Pembrokeshire kills an estimated 1,300 seabirds.
- 28 July - 8 people are injured when a train derails between Sarnau and St Clears.
- 19 November - The Wales national football team qualifies for the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 1976, beating Austria 1-0 in Wrexham.
- date unknown - The Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust is established.
Arts and literature
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Criccieth)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Gerallt Lloyd Owen
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Elwyn Roberts
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld
New books
English language
- Gwynfor Evans - National Future for Wales
- Jeremy Hooker - Soliloquies of a Chalk Giant
- Emyr Humphries - Flesh and Blood
- Joseph Jenkins - Diary of a Welsh Swagman (posthumous)[2]
- Richard Llewellyn - Green, Green, My Valley Now
- Moelwyn Merchant - Breaking the Code
- Prys Morgan - Iolo Morganwg
- Leslie Norris - Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies
- Bernice Rubens - I Sent a Letter to My Love
- Peter Tinniswood - Except You're a Bird
- Rhydwen Williams - The Angry Vineyard
Welsh language
- Aneirin Talfan Davies - Diannerch Erchwyn a Cherddi Eraill[3]
- J. Eirian Davies - Cân Galed
- T. Glynne Davies - Marged
- Richard Cyril Hughes - Catrin o Ferain[4]
- T. Llew Jones - Tân ar y Comin[5]
- Marged Pritchard - Gwylanod ar y Mynydd[6]
- Eurys Rowlands (ed.) - Lewys Môn
- Gwyn Thomas - Y Pethau Diwethaf a Phethau Eraill[7]
- John G. Williams - Maes Mihangel
New drama
- W. S. Jones - Y Toblarôn
- Saunders Lewis - Dwy Briodas Ann[8]
Music
- Max Boyce - We All Had Doctors' Papers[9]
- Edward H. Dafis - Ffordd Newydd Eingl-Americanaidd Grêt o Fyw[10]
- Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet[11]
- Andy Fairweather-Low - La Booga Rooga, album featuring the top ten hit single "Wide Eyed and Legless"[12]
Film
- Rachel Roberts appears in Picnic at Hanging Rock.
- Ken Loach's Days of Hope is partly set in Wales.
Welsh-language films
- None
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
- The Siberry Report recommends a new Welsh-language fourth channel broadcasting 25 hours a week of Welsh-language programmes, with BBC and HTV each responsible for 50% of the output.[13]
English-language television
- Grand Slam, starring Hugh Griffith and Windsor Davies
- How Green Was My Valley adapted for television by Elaine Morgan, starring Stanley Baker, Sian Phillips, Mike Gwilym, Nerys Hughes and Gareth Thomas.
- Angharad Rees stars in Poldark.
Sport
- Boxing – Pat Thomas wins the British Welterweight title.
- Darts – Wales win the Home International Series.
- Football – The Wales national football team qualifies for the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 1976.
- Snooker – Ray Reardon wins his fourth World Championship title.[14]
Births
- 12 March - Richard Harrington, actor[15]
- 21 March - Mark Williams, snooker player
- 5 April - John Hartson, footballer
- 22 May - Kelly Morgan, badminton player
- 18 June - Jem, singer
- 1 July - Hayley Tullett, athlete
- 24 July - Dafydd James, rugby player
- 4 September - Kai Owen, actor
- 26 September - Dai Thomas, footballer
- 19 October - Jamie Donaldson, golfer
- 28 October - Adrian Durston, rugby player
- 5 November - Lisa Scott-Lee, singer
- 25 November - Paul Mealor, composer
- date unknown
- Euros Childs, songwriter
- Cynan Jones, novelist
Deaths
- 14 February - Arthur Probert, politician, 67[16]
- 23 February - Ossie Male, rugby player, 81
- 3 March - T. H. Parry-Williams, poet, 87[17]
- 15 March - Edward James, cricketer, 78
- 6 April - Tom Morgan, cricketer, 81
- 23 April - Pete Ham, musician, leader of the group Badfinger (suicide), 27[18]
- 24 April - Stephen Halden Beattie, recipient of the Victoria Cross, 67[19]
- 21 May - A. H. Dodd, historian, 83[20]
- 7 June - Jack Smith, footballer, 63
- 7 August - Jim Griffiths, politician, 84[21]
- 27 August - Noel Morgan, cricketer, 69
- 4 September - Walley Barnes, footballer and broadcaster, 55
- 5 October - Will Davies, rugby player, 69
- 6 November - Norman Riches, cricketer
- 10 November - Emrys Davies, cricketer, 71
- 18 December - R. Ifor Parry, minister, teacher and philanthropist, 67[22]
- date unknown
- Robert Herring, poet and critic, 72[23]
- Alun Jeremiah Jones (Alun Cilie), poet[24]
- Huw Lloyd Edwards, dramatist
See also
References
- ^ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1994). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons official report. H.M. Stationery Office. ISBN 978-0-10-681251-6.
- ^ Joseph Jenkins; William Evans (1977). Diary of a Welsh Swagman, 1869-1894. Sun Books. ISBN 978-0-7251-0246-3.
- ^ Llên Cymru. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. 2004. p. 115.
- ^ The New Beacon. Royal National Institute for the Blind. 1985. p. 219.
- ^ Daniel Hahn; Michael Morpurgo (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford University Press. pp. 314–. ISBN 978-0-19-969514-0.
- ^ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 494.
- ^ Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman; Gwilym Rees Hughes; Dafydd Johnston (1998). A Guide to Welsh Literature: c. 1900-1996. University of Wales Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-7083-1424-1.
- ^ Ioan M. Williams (1 January 1991). A Straitened Stage: A Study of the Theatre of J. Saunders Lewis. Seren Books. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-85411-043-5.
- ^ Lawrence Goldman (7 March 2013). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008. OUP Oxford. p. 616. ISBN 978-0-19-967154-0.
- ^ Sarah Hill (5 July 2017). 'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music. Taylor & Francis. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-351-57345-0.
- ^ Mike Clifford (1986). The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock. Harmony Books. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-517-56264-2.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: L". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 1, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- ^ David Maxwell Barlow; Tom O'Malley; Philip Mitchell (2005). The media in Wales: voices of a small nation. University of Wales Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-7083-1840-9.
- ^ "Profile: Ray Reardon". Eurosport. 2 March 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ^ "Dal Ati". Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ Labour Party (Great Britain) (1974). Report of the Annual Conference. Labour Representation Committee.
- ^ Evans, Ellis. "Williams, Sir Thomas Herbert Parry- (1887–1975)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2007-07-25.
- ^ Joseph Murrells (1978). The Book of Golden Discs. Barrie and Jenkins. ISBN 978-0-214-20480-7.
- ^ Who was who. A. & C. Black. 1971.
- ^ Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. W. Pickering. 1976. p. 137.
- ^ Labour Party (Great Britain) (1974). Report of the Annual Conference. Labour Representation Committee.
- ^ Ioan Wyn Gruffydd. "Parry, Robert Ivor (1908-1975), minister (Cong.) and school teacher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ James Donald; Anne Friedberg; Laura Marcus (1 January 1998). Close Up: Cinema And Modernism. A&C Black. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-304-33516-9.
- ^ Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.