Login
Login

:1975 in Wales

{{short description|none}}

{{Year in Wales header|1975}}

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1975 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

{{For|United Kingdom incumbents|1975 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents}}

  • Secretary of State for Wales – John Morris{{Cite web|title=Morris of Aberavon, Baron, (John Morris) (born Nov. 1931)|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-28179|access-date=2021-05-05|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u28179|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
  • Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor{{cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2018/8-june/books-arts/book-reviews/welsh-golden-age-that-never-came|title=Archbishop Gwilym Owen Williams — "G. O.": His life and opinions by D. T. W. Price |author=David Wilbourne|date=8 June 2018|website=Church Times|access-date=6 May 2022}}
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
  • Brinli (outgoing){{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic|url-access=registration|date=April 1986|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic/page/523 523]|isbn=978-0-19-211586-7 }}
  • Bryn (incoming){{cite book|author=Dillwyn Miles|title=The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJZiAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Gwasg Dinefwr Press|isbn=978-0-9519926-0-9|page=193}}

Events

  • 20 March - Opening of the Cleddau Bridge at Milford Haven.{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons|title=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons official report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nZeNmI0JrnkC|year=1994|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|isbn=978-0-10-681251-6}}
  • 14 April - Actor/singer Michael Flanders dies suddenly of an intracranial berry aneurysm while on holiday in Betws-y-Coed.Meyer, Michael, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31113 "Flanders, Michael Henry (1922–1975)"], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 3 May 2013 {{ODNBsub}}
  • May - A leak from the Esso Tenby tanker off the coast of Pembrokeshire kills an estimated 1,300 seabirds.{{cite web|url=https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/statistics-and-research/2019-05/021201-dws-2002-chapter-5-ency.pdf|title=Digest of Welsh Statistics|page=1|access-date=7 May 2022}}
  • 28 July - Eight people are injured when a train is derailed 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.{{cite web|url=https://ggat.org.uk/cms/who-we-are/|title=Glamorgan Gwent Archaeology is part of Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology|website=GGAT|access-date=17 August 2024}}

Arts and literature

  • Ryan and Ronnie announce the end of their comedy partnership.

=Awards=

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Criccieth)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Gerallt Lloyd Owen{{cite web|url=https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/2023931#?xywh=-698%2C0%2C3078%2C2473|title=Enillydd y Gadair, Gerallt Lloyd Owen, Eisteddfod Bro Dwyfor 1975|website=Peoples Collection Wales|access-date=15 April 2025}}
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Elwyn Roberts{{cite web|url=https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/2023916#?xywh=0%2C-82%2C2203%2C1771|title=Enillydd y Goron Elwyn Roberts, Eisteddfod Bro Dwyfor 1975|website=Peoples Collection Wales|access-date=15 April 2025}}
  • 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){{cite book|author1=Joseph Jenkins|author2=William Evans|title=Diary of a Welsh Swagman, 1869-1894|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8xVCPgAACAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Sun Books|isbn=978-0-7251-0246-3}}
  • Richard Llewellyn - Green, Green, My Valley Now
  • Moelwyn Merchant - Breaking the Code{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-the-rev-professor-w-moelwyn-merchant-1259416.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220515/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-the-rev-professor-w-moelwyn-merchant-1259416.html |archive-date=15 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: The Rev Professor W. Moelwyn Merchant|date=3 May 1997|author1=David Shaw|author2=Paul Merchant|website=The Independent|access-date=9 October 2019}}
  • Prys Morgan - Iolo Morganwg
  • Bernice Rubens - I Sent a Letter to My Love
  • Peter Tinniswood - Except You're a Bird
  • Rhydwen Williams - The Angry Vineyard{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-rhydwen-williams-1244189.html%3famp|title = Obituary: Rhydwen Williams| website=Independent.co.uk |date = 22 October 2011}}

==Welsh language==

  • Aneirin Talfan Davies - Diannerch Erchwyn a Cherddi Eraill{{cite book|title=Llên Cymru|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAQIAQAAIAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru|page=115}}
  • T. Glynne Davies - Marged
  • Richard Cyril Hughes - Catrin o Ferain{{cite book|title=The New Beacon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TbBIAAAAYAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Royal National Institute for the Blind|page=219}}
  • T. Llew Jones - Tân ar y Comin{{cite book|author1=Daniel Hahn|author2=Michael Morpurgo|title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mb66BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA314|year=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-969514-0|pages=314–}}
  • Alan Llwyd - Edrych Trwy Wydrau Lledrith{{cite book|author1=Glyn Jones|author2=John Rowlands|title=Profiles: a visitors' guide to writing in twentieth century Wales|publisher=Gomer|year=1980|isbn=9780850887136|page=185}}
  • Marged Pritchard - Gwylanod ar y Mynydd{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic|url-access=registration|date=April 1986|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic/page/494 494]|isbn=978-0-19-211586-7 }}
  • Gwyn Thomas - Y Pethau Diwethaf a Phethau Eraill{{cite book|author1=Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman|author2=Gwilym Rees Hughes|author3=Dafydd Johnston|title=A Guide to Welsh Literature: c. 1900-1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=foThAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1424-1|page=140}}

=New drama=

  • W. S. Jones - Y Toblarôn
  • Saunders Lewis - Dwy Briodas Ann{{cite book|author=Ioan M. Williams|title=A Straitened Stage: A Study of the Theatre of J. Saunders Lewis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M45iAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1991|publisher=Seren Books|isbn=978-1-85411-043-5|page=203}}

=Music=

  • Max Boyce - We All Had Doctors' Papers{{cite book|author=Lawrence Goldman|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nbGcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA616|date=7 March 2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-967154-0|pages=616}}
  • Edward H. Dafis - Ffordd Newydd Eingl-Americanaidd Grêt o Fyw{{cite book|author=Sarah Hill|title='Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCgxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT83|date=5 July 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-57345-0|pages=83}}
  • Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet{{cite book|author=Mike Clifford|title=The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zGsZAQAAIAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Harmony Books|isbn=978-0-517-56264-2|page=75}}
  • Andy Fairweather-Low - La Booga Rooga, album featuring the top ten hit single "Wide Eyed and Legless"{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: L|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=L&bk=70|accessdate=March 1, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}

Film

=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.{{cite book|author1=David Maxwell Barlow|author2=Tom O'Malley|author3=Philip Mitchell|title=The media in Wales: voices of a small nation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezhiAAAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1840-9|page=137}}

=English-language television=

Sport

Births

Deaths

  • 14 February - Arthur Probert, politician, 67{{cite book|author=Labour Party (Great Britain)|title=Report of the Annual Conference|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l2AuAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Labour Representation Committee}}
  • 23 February - Ossie Male, rugby player, 81
  • 3 March - T. H. Parry-Williams, poet, 87{{cite ODNB| url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37835| title=Williams, Sir Thomas Herbert Parry- (1887–1975)| last=Evans |first=Ellis|year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/37835 | authorlink=Ellis Evans | accessdate=2007-07-25}}
  • 15 March - Edward James, cricketer, 78
  • 6 April - Tom Morgan, cricketer, 81
  • 23 April - Pete Ham, musician, leader of the group Badfinger (suicide), 27{{cite book|author=Joseph Murrells|title=The Book of Golden Discs|url=https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr|url-access=registration|year=1978|publisher=Barrie and Jenkins|isbn=978-0-214-20480-7}}
  • 24 April - Stephen Halden Beattie, recipient of the Victoria Cross, 67{{cite book|title=Who was who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HT4OAQAAMAAJ|year=1971|publisher=A. & C. Black| isbn=9780312877460 }}
  • 21 May - A. H. Dodd, historian, 83{{cite book|title=Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iy0oAQAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=W. Pickering|page=137}}
  • 7 June - Jack Smith, footballer, 63
  • 8 July - T. G. E. Powell, archaeologist, 59{{cite book |year=2009 |chapter=Powell, Thomas George Eyre |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001/acref-9780199534043-e-3308 |editor1-last=Darvill |editor1-first=Timothy |editor1-link=Timothy Darvill |title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001/acref-9780199534043 |edition=2 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001 |isbn=9780191727139 }}
  • 7 August - Jim Griffiths, politician, 84{{cite book|author=Labour Party (Great Britain)|title=Report of the Annual Conference|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l2AuAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Labour Representation Committee}}
  • 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{{cite DWB|id=s7-PARR-IFO-1908|title=Parry, Robert Ivor (1908-1975), minister (Cong.) and school teacher|author=Ioan Wyn Gruffydd|access-date=19 December 2019}}
  • date unknown
  • Robert Herring, poet and critic, 72{{cite book|author1=James Donald|author2=Anne Friedberg|author3=Laura Marcus|title=Close Up: Cinema And Modernism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ab3uuMSY3mQC&pg=PA316|date=1 January 1998|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-304-33516-9|pages=316}}
  • Alun Jeremiah Jones (Alun Cilie), poet{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=The new companion to the literature of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WoMYAAAAIAAJ|date=23 September 1998|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1383-1}}
  • Huw Lloyd Edwards, dramatist

See also

References

{{reflist}}

Wales

Wales

Category:1975 in Europe

Category:1970s in Wales