The Welsh Extremist

The Welsh Extremist PDF Author: Ned Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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This book is about the pressures on the Welsh language community, the response to those pressures, and the record of what is happening to us as it can be found in the best modern Welsh literature.

The Welsh Extremist

The Welsh Extremist PDF Author: Ned Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Book Description
This book is about the pressures on the Welsh language community, the response to those pressures, and the record of what is happening to us as it can be found in the best modern Welsh literature.

The Welsh Extremist

The Welsh Extremist PDF Author: Ned Thomas
Publisher: London : Gollancz
ISBN: 9780575006904
Category : Language and culture
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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The Welsh Extremist

The Welsh Extremist PDF Author: Ned Thomas
Publisher: Ylolfa
ISBN: 9780862432546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Essays on Welsh literature, Politics and society today, With a new concluding chapter for this reprint.

Why Wales Never Was

Why Wales Never Was PDF Author: Simon Brooks
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786830132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Written as an act of protest in a Welsh-speaking community in north-west Wales, Why Wales Never Was combines a devastating analysis of the historical failure of Welsh nationalism with an apocalyptic vision of a non-Welsh future. It is the ‘progressive’ nature of Welsh politics and the ‘empire of the civic’, which rejects both language and culture, that prevents the colonised from rising up against his colonial master. Wales will always be a subjugated nation until modes of thought, dominant since the nineteenth century, are overturned. Originally a comment on Welsh acquiescence to Britishness at the time of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the book’s emphasis on the importance of European culture is a parable for Brexit times. Both deeply rooted in Welsh culture and European in scope, Why Wales Never Was brings together history, philosophy and politics in a way never tried before in Wales. First published in Welsh in 2015, Why Wales Never Was affirms the author’s reputation as one of the most radical writers in Wales today.

The Fascist Party in Wales?

The Fascist Party in Wales? PDF Author: Richard Wyn Jones
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783160578
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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For decades, otherwise highly respected figures in Welsh life have repeatedly claimed that Welsh nationalists sympathised with Fascism during the dark days of the 1930s and the Second World War. In this path-breaking book, Wales's leading political commentator assesses the truth of these charges. In addition to shedding new light on the attitudes of Plaid Cymru and its leadership during the period in question, this book offers an insightful and challenging interpretation of the nature Welsh political culture.

Pacifism, Peace and Modern Welsh Writing

Pacifism, Peace and Modern Welsh Writing PDF Author: Linden Peach
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786834049
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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This book introduces the contribution of modern Welsh literature to our understanding of peace and pacifism – an important and much overlooked subject in Welsh studies. Taking a literary-historical approach to the subject, it reveals how modern Welsh writing opens up history in ways in which historical discourse alone sometimes fails to do. It argues that the concepts of peace, peacefulness and pacifism have played a broader and more complex role in Welsh life than has been recognised, primarily through an influential Welsh-language pacifist intelligentsia. The author reminds us that Welsh pacifism is distinguished from English pacifism by the Welsh language itself, its links with Welsh nationalism and by the fact that it faced challenges and pressures never encountered by English pacifism. Authors discussed in this study include Tony Curtis, George M. Ll. Davies, Pennar Davies, John Eilian, Emyr Humphreys, Glyn Jones, D. Gwenallt Jones, T. Gwynn Jones, T. E. Nicholas, Iorwerth C. Peate, Angharad Price, Ned Thomas, Lily Tobas and Waldo Williams.

A History of Modern Wales 1536-1990

A History of Modern Wales 1536-1990 PDF Author: Philip Jenkins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317872681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405

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Rich in detail but vigorous, authoritative and unsentimental, A History of Modern Wales is a comprehensive and unromanticised examination of Wales as it was and is. It stresses both the long-term continuities in Welsh history, and also the significant regional differences within the principality.

R.S. Thomas

R.S. Thomas PDF Author: M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708326617
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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The study places the work of a major religious poet of the late twentieth century in a number of striking new perspectives that allow him to be viewed for the first time as an 'alternative' war poet, a conscience-stricken pacifist, a jealously opportunistic student of art, and an experimental biographer of the modern soul. Published to mark the centenary of the ‘ogre of Wales’, this volume deals with the idées fixes that serially possessed the fiercely intense imagination of R. S. Thomas: Iago Prytherch, Wales, his family and, of course, a vexingly elusive deity. Here, these familiar obsessions are set in several unusual contexts that bring Thomas’s poetry into startling new relief. The war poetry is considered alongside the poet’s early relationship to the English topographical tradition; comparisons with Borges and Levertov underline the international dimensions of the poetry’s concerns; the intriguing ‘secret code’ of some of Thomas’s Welsh-language references is cracked; and his painting-poems (including several hitherto unpublished) are brought centre-stage from the peripheries to which they have been routinely relegated.

Charles and the Welsh Revolt

Charles and the Welsh Revolt PDF Author: Arwel Vittle
Publisher: Y Lolfa
ISBN: 1800994249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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A brief popular history of the Welsh protest against the Investiture of Prince Charles in Caernarfon in 1969 (as seen in popular Netflix series The Crown). From Cymdeithas yr Iaith to the Free Wales Army, Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru and many other groups, placards, sit-ins, paramilitary-style parades and even a bombing campaign across the country showed that many in Wales were not happy to accept an English Prince of Wales.

Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups

Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups PDF Author: Mark S. Hamm
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437929591
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.