Saunders Lewis
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Saunders Lewis was a Welsh politician, poet, dramatist, Medievalist, and literary critic.
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Saunders Lewis while an officer in the British Army, 3 February 1916
A plaque was inaugurated to mark the 75th anniversary of Plaid Cymru's founding meeting in 2000 on the building where the meeting took place in Pwllheli
Memorial to the Tân yn Llŷn protest in Penyberth. Saunders Lewis is the figure depicted on the right of the monument.
Pupils of Ysgol y Gader in Dolgellau perform Saunders Lewis' Amlyn ac Amig drama, 18 December 1973
Cwmni Theatr Cymru's production of Saunders Lewis' Cymru Fydd drama at Bala Eisteddfod, 1 August 1967Writers from United Kingdom 6
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Saunders Lewis was a Welsh politician, poet, dramatist, Medievalist, and literary critic. Born into a Welsh-speaking ministerial family in Greater Liverpool, Lewis rediscovered the importance of both his heritage language and cultural roots while serving as a junior officer in the British Army during the trenches of the First World War. As a vocal supporter of Welsh nationalism, Lewis believed, however, that heritage language revival, cultural nationalism, the dramatic arts, and culture needed to precede Welsh devolution or political independence. If the excessive Anglophilia and colonial mentality traditionally known as Dic Siôn Dafydd was never challenged or defeated, Lewis predicted in 1918, "the Welsh Parliament would [only] be an enlarged County Council."
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