CILMERI CENOTAPH 11 RHAGFYR 2008. Foto Feature.

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SARHAD '83: THE FESTIVAL OF CASTLES and at last we close Caernarfon Castle down.

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IN DEVELOPMENT - More to follow soon.
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USA THANKS GIVING DAY WALES ?

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For history of Thanks Giving Day USA, note that even though Virginia was the first English Colony in America, it was the New England venture of the Pilgrim Fathers which got the ''National Day'' hype. This was largely due to fact that the whole thing got motivation during the American Civil War to help unify the country, but of course Virginia being in the Confederacy put that state Beyond the Pale so to speak. Whatever, fact of the matter is it is hardly a Thanks Giving Day' for Native Americans, for their views on such check out the web, nor least AMERICAN INDIAN WEBSITES, see link below and note in particular Anti - Columbus Day Demonstrations. Evidently BBC Wales could not stop prattling most of the day about this American Holiday, if only they did the same for Cofia 11 Rhagfyr 1282.
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The fotos I have placed on this post are of a memorial at Southwark Cathedral to mark much, not least the theft of Native American land. What is very interesting is that this memorial is also very much an apology by the English Crown for such act of Conquest and Colonisation, now ain't that something. I am of the mind it may be a good idea that on the 1st July 2009, perhaps on steps leading to gateway entrance of Caernarfon Castle or perhaps around the 'Dias of Defeat' inside the Castle we call upon the English Crown to apolagise for their Conquest and Colonisation, Oppression and Exploitation of Cymru.
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HHHhhhmmm!!!! Good idea, I juggle them like balls and sometimes it works for Wales, so make note of that but as any one out there got any ideas as to the wording of such 1 July 2009 Proclamation, if so do let me know. Other than this, I may pop down to Southwark later today and place some Ivy at this memorial, does anyone know of any fitting site in Wales with Native American connection, where we can hold ceremony on 29 December annually a Wales - Native American Indian Solidarity Action in memory of Wounded Knee 1890.

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WELSH NATIONALIST PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY

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Welsh Nationalism is not exactly a Goldmine for any original concepts and writtings on Welsh Nationalist Philosophy and theory, in the main Welsh Nationalism for most part concerns itself with Cultural Nationalist navel gazing. However, there does exist a few 'gems' as the below complete with a foreword by none other than the now dead Enoch Powell. In good time I will draw your attention to further 'gems', in doing so it does not mean I agree with their contents but will you?

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THE NOMAD: Another National Hero Film but what about Cymru/Wales?

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I have only recently bought this film (£6) and have not had chance to view it, you can see a number of reviews on the web plus some Video Stream Clips. Some of the reviews are none too good but what the hell buy it for your National Heroes Film Collection in which a must of course is The Lion of Flanders for starters. No doubt many of you already have Braveheart but what about the recently produced MONGOL and this NOMAD, both are examples of newly established Nation - States seeking to assert their national identity through the movies and none too afraid on spending an huge ammount of money in such worth while National Identity reaffirming mission. I some how think that it is in the long term best interest of a National future for Cymru if S4C used some of its money mountain (£100 Million plus) on an epic film about Owain Glyndwr. Whilst I sugest the so called BBC Wales used it's fortune on producing an epic film on Alexander Cordells RAPE OF THE FAIR COUNTRY instead of wasting money on Dr Who, Merlin and now Casualty plus much more that come out of it's WEST BRITAIN BBC PORTFOLIO. Lets get the TV productions Cymru/Wales deserves and also see Film Cymru or whatever its called these days actually produce films that puts ''Bums on Seat'' and makes money for real and are not perpetually hawked around film festivals. By way what happened to VALLEYWOOD? One and all should be made aware that a remake is being made of an old Hollywood Werewolf Horror Movie set in Wales. But guess where its being made, Greenwhich, England and guess what Anthony Hopkins stars it, so me thinks that if you cannot get this made in VALLEYWOOD, then you are not going to get many films made there at all. Another Rip Off?

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The Nomad -Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe government of Kazakhstan has invested $40000000 in the movie production, making it the most expensive Kazakh film ever made. Nomad is Kazakhstan's ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad_(film) - 33k - Cached - Similar pages

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JOHN B. JENKINS Great Welsh Patriot but a lost potential Political Leader of Alternative Welsh Nationalist Movement & Struggle.

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I am not going to write here what has already been said in 'TO DREAM OF FREEDOM', may be found on the web and will be enlarged upon in a new book to be published soon with a book laumch in the Japan Room in the Millenium centre later this month. See following links >>>>>Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMudiad Amddiffyn Cymru (Movement for the Defence of Wales), abbreviated as ... over by John Barnard Jenkins, a non-commissioned officer in the British Army...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudiad_Amddiffyn_Cymru - 21k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this also see>Freedom Fighters, John Humphries- Studia AS - Bokhandel... on the role of two main protagonists of Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru MAC, t ... ... the Movement for the Defence of Wales, Owen Williams and John Jenkins. ...www.studia.no/vare.php?ean=9780708321775 - 30k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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The purpose of this post is to draw your attention to the fourth coming book noted above, and to provide here a photo tribute to John Jenkins who along with Trefor Morgan, Pedr Lewis and Cliff Bere, Owen Williams and Niel ap Siencyn also the sadly departed Toni Lewis, Cayo Evans and Denis Coslett are amongst the few really great patriots of the 'Alternative Welsh Nationalist Movement and Struggle'. It is however most unfortunate for that AWNM&S that John did not pursue a political career, for if one reads the book of his Prison letters, there can be no doubt at all that here was a politically intelligent and absolutely shrewd clever patriot that could have delivered the patriotic political policies needed with a sound Patriotic leadership. That John Jenkins did not pursue such path, was and is a great loss to the struggle of National Liberation for Welsh Independence. It would be great if our new National Theatre or even Theatr Clwyd had some guts to put on the play THE DRUMMER (see below) , inspired by John Jenkins. After all ''Welsh Theatre'' were quick enough to put on a play that sought to tarnish Cayo as a great Patriot and National Hero, see on web FRANCO's BASTARD by that real enough bastard Dick Edwards.

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ANTI ANOTHER INVESTITURE OF AN ENGLISH PRINCE OF WALES CAMPAIGN BLACK CROSS & DECLARATION.

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Here's mine, so where's yours?
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Further Info over on my WELSH REMEMBRANCER and ADFYWIAD GWLADGAROL Blogs, go see and then go do! Never mind Cambrianista Petitions and Balchderiaid Parading about. JUST GET INTO SOME PATRIOTIC PROTEST AGIT PROP for starters? Then you take it from there, the more ''Autonomous Action'' the better, you do not need Movements & organisation from the top or so called leaders or endless meetings in pubs or rallies at Cilmeri. Next year for a change consider Rhuddlan, Nefyn and of course Caernarfon for assemblies of Patriotic Activists.
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If you want to see how it's done, read Class War not to Dream of Freedom that's only produced 40 odd years of Knee Jerk Posturing Phony ''Medal Wearing Wannabe Welsh Heroes'' Patriotism, sorry to say but it's the truth. Time to get real, time to get really RADICAL NATIONALIST, so check out RED REMEMBRANCER Blog as well.

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GEORGIA ON MY MIND and South Ossetia! What another petition?

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The Kossovo situation was an easy one, I just thought Serbia was wronged and I came to this opinion from having done quite a lot of reading about the Austrian - Hungarian Empire, Pan Slavism and Yugoslavia. I know very little about Georgia, or of the Ossetians, a quick suss on the web and I find that the Ossetians are descendants of the Alans. My knowledge of the Alans is also meager, I first came across they in a book called the CATALAN VENGENCE, by the way an excellent read. The Alans, or rather their remnants were raiding into Greece in the 13th Century following on collapse of Byzantium, they were one of the northern tribes giving the Greco - Normans trouble and whom the Catalan mercenaries were to come up against. That's more or less, is the sum total of my knowledge in this area apart from knowing that Stalin was a Georgian. So, on this Georgian/Ossetian Issue I will leave others to discuss and debate and choose sides as Dr John Davies does and makes known in his letter to the Western Mail recently. I know many Welsh Cultural Nationalists, as Robert Hinton supported Kossovans because the Serbs were suppressing their language, maybe Cultural Nationalists will be supporting the Ossetians for similar reasons, linguistic ones?
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A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME - IT's STILL CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. Getting Shafted By Shakespeare!

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OH NO! PLEASE GOD SPARE US, NOT MORE SHAKESPEARE? as if we do not have enough of this English Bard, creative promoter of English Nationalism and Taffy Tom Foolery or worse Glyndwr as the ''Noble Savage'', proud but a ''Papist Prince'' unwelcome in the Tudor Protestant view of Welsh History, that must fit the English World View of advancing English Imperialism in it's attempt to dominate the world, colonise numerous countries and enslave numerous peoples, just has they had done in Cymru. To the fore in all this was the use of Shakespeare, I have done a number of articles on this but before I publish, I suggest you otherwise check out on the web for 'SHAKESPEARE AND CULTURAL IMPERIALISM'. Maybe you will come to the same opinion as I? but maybe not but at lease search and suss it out for yourselves before I get to reworking my ire on ''The Bard''. In the mean time I draw your attention to another bloody piece of Shakespeare Opportunist Adventurism in Wales. Would you believe it? attempting to establish a ''Mid Wales Shakespeare Centre''. You like me, might ask what for? when there exists such centres at the Globe in Southwark, London and of course at the epi - centre of the World Wide Shakespeare Industry in Stratford Upon Avon. Now if you, dear patriot you cannot see what is wrong with this, then you must have a hole in your head through which the English Crown's State Carraige can drive through. More important is what are we going to do about giving Shakespeare a Shunt out of Wales? Not completly, I am not a total Philistine but can we please in Cymru have some Cymric Culture and Literature in the Welsh Arts and Theatre World, not least in ''Open Theatre'' at Cadw Castles in particular.
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The Welsh Flag above does not fool me, but there it's appropriate as after all it is a Tudor Flag, but see the quote below from above brochure.

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However, the ''Willows'' are not the only ones, take a look at cutting below out of BUZZ MAG regards Everyman Theatre another bunch that's saddles up for Shakespeare and English Culture for the most part. The above are but two examples but they are the ''Thin Edge of the Wedge''. The matter I seriously put forward, is does not Cymru not have a serious over load of that English Bard and all his many works. Just check out all the Cadw and Local Authority Tourism and local Liesiure Summer Events, and seek to spot anything of Welsh Theme, Subject and Content amidst all the Shakespeare Shafting going on. We are Culturally drowning in English Cultural Colonialism, what we need is a Cymric Cultural Revolution and I mean one that is in both English and Cymreig, particularly in English, do I have to explain why?

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Just give me a month and I will have much, much, much more to say on this subject regards STICKING IT TO SHAKESPEARE! As an afterthought it occurs to me, that whilst a lot of Shakespeare is off loaded into Wales by English based Theatre Companies, a great ammount of it is ''Home Produced''. However, is this ''Home Based'' Shakespeare stuff the product of ''White Settlers'' or our own ''Anglos'', that are so anglicised they have no real knowledge of Welsh Mythology and History, Culture and Literature? If such is the case then how could they possibly be creative with an indigenous Cymric Cultural Endeavour. The question thus begging to be asked is, are they 'BRIT BARD BRAIN WASHED', if so then that Cymric Cultural Revolution is long overdue. All this here has much connection to matters I raise over on my blog YMGYRCH TREFTADAETH CYMRU, so check that out too.
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Adfywiadwr Gethin.

FREE TIBET - CYMRU SOLIDARITY AWST 2009 ACTION.

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I did not get to top of Eryri, nor even make it to the lower slopes due to inconsistant weather and arriving late in day after some other patriotic activity elsewhere. However, at least on 08 - 08 - 08 got symbolically close, if you can do better then please do. The Olympic games continue to run in China until 24th August, so pick a good sunny day and put on your walking shoes and maybe we will see a Tibetan flag or two or more atop Eryri yet? Also maybe make some more organised Free Tibet protest walk up Eryri, perhaps could actually be made on the 24th August, be somewhat more impressive than our lone attempt, if a larger group made effort to show some Free Tibet - Cymru Solidarity. Note, that rumours are rife that Carlo the English Pretender Prince of Wales will be around about Gwynedd in July 2009 to visit Caernarfon Castle on 1 July 2009, anniversary of the 1969 Investiture. It is quite possible that about this time he may be invited to open Hafod Eryri atop the Mountain, seeing has he campaigned for removal of the ''Highest Slum in Britain'', so a new centre could be built there. If this should occur, I suggest patriots be prepared to mount protests on Eryri by making sure as many Patriots as possible are all over the slopes rising up Baneri Llywelyn and Glyndwr plus Welsh Republican flags Baneri Eryri Wen would also be suitable. Thus stay alert, listen out for news on this and be ready to go into protest mode with a colourful flag protest action, as well make large Banners declaring NO TO ENGLISH PRINCES OF WALES - NO MORE INVESTITURES OK! Any one up for that? NB: If authorities stop such Patriotic Protest Action, maybe something could be done over on Carnedd Llywelyn not too far away, think it over?

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LAND and LIBERTY: Popular Resistence To Enclosures in Wales 1793 - 1830.

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Rhyfel y Sais Bach 1826. A Feature On Line. On the 24 May 1826, after months of direct action against enclosures on Mynydd Bach, Ceredigion, a youth sounded an horn from atop Mynydd Bach. Siaci Ifan y Gof was the youths name, and the sound of the horn was a signal for the people to assemble on Mynydd Bach to engage it what would be the final conflict against the enclosures on the mountain. However, far from end of the story of Siaci Ifan y Gof and others who had engaged in decisive action of 24 May 1826.

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There is no memorial in homage to this 'Land and Liberty' struggle, but would it not be great to have a sculpture of Siaci Ifan y Gof, sounding his horn and inscribed upon a base, a couplet of the time:
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Fe dwythwyrd yr udgorn
ar ben yr Hebryg Fawr
Dach mwy na mil o ddynion
ynghyd mewn hanner awr.
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The horn was sounded on Hebryg Fawr.
More than a 1000 men came together
in half an hour.
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The flag by way is my own recent invention, a Red Pitchfork symbolic of popular rural revolt, to add a bit of colour and for dramatic effect. However, why not adopt such flag for use in any protest where land is the issue, as for example in protest against land grabbing for pipelines or windmills etc. Further, maybe 24 May would be good date for an annual 'Land and Liberty' Rally perhaps, also this flag makes a good May day flag, not least in protest against present day rising price of food, a rising situation similar to Wales of the Corn Riots of 1793 - 1801. For further information check out Wikiapedia but more important get hold of the book: BEFORE REBECCA by David J.V.Jones, published by Allen Lane. Excellent read.
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Photo below was taken just below memorial to four local poets, one poet which has been set up on Mynydd Bach, close to Llyn Eiddwen. Mynydd Bach can be approached via Lledrod or Trefenter, choose a day with good weather, when I went there was an howling gale and I could hardly stand straight long enough for the fotos to be taken. On a nice day, Mynydd Bach in area of lake is splendid, with great view to the coast, ideal for a family outing with a picnic in mind.
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PLAID OPPTIMISM: Don't Kock It! Patriotic Pragmatism Might Win Where Patriotic Purity Has Failed, by 2009, 2010 or 2011 we should know?

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ANNIVERSARY SPEECH ON BEHALF OF WALES This blog, that is "Independence Cymru" which now approaches its first birthday. Since its inaugeration the political scene in Wales has been transformed and the cause of independence has received an impetus which many of its detractors have deplored but have not been able to deflect. We began with the elections to the National Assembly of Wales which, rather than being the puppet government that many devolutionists might have preferred, has flexed its muscles and delivered its legislation in the context of the particular needs of Wales and for the benefit of the people of Wales.The election to the Assembly of Helen-Mary Jones heralded a new dawn for Llanelli, a constituency which has been steeped in socialism for donkey's years. Yet with the advent of "New Labour" socialism was finally extirped from the party which had become a shadow of its former days. Labour had moved radically to the right and socialist principles had been abandoned, to be taken over by the only viable alternative - Plaid Cymru. Plaid is unequivocal in its support for communities, not for class or vested interests. People have begun to take note of this fact and their allegiance has swung towards the only Party of Wales, the only political party which promotes the nation and defends the nation against contemporary imperialism.With the alliance of Plaid with Labour in the Assembly a bridghead was established and the results of this are plain to see. Wales has a farming policy sympathetic to the interests of the rural and agricultural communities. The people of Wales benefit from free medicines and free car-parking facilities in the hospitals, the closure of NHS facilities has been stemmed and Welsh arts promoted. There are more Welsh schools of excellence where English families increasingly send their children, knowing that they will receive true values and a better education, from dedicated staff who believe in cultural and linguistic acquisitions.There is much to be done but Wales is on the right road and much progress has been achieved. This is reflected in the outcome of the local elections which, despite being under-reported by the somewhat skeptical media, delivered a resounding blow to the prevailing hegemony of Labour and carried Plaid forward on a wave of popular support. In particular the back of Labour was broken in Llanelli where the surge in the Plaid vote created new councillors for the county and for local community councils and unseated Labour members who had been installed for time immemorial.Sometimes those elected to power have to make unpopular decisions, the closure of rural schools for example, and this is the reason why Plaid received a set-back in Gwynedd. Those who voted Llais and not Plaid, however, are no less fervent in their aspiration for a self-governing Wales, but are naturally concerned for their children's education, fearing that they will lose out as a result of new proposals. The answer is not the bilingual approach in Wales but a two-tier approach, where Ysgolion Gymraeg continue to thrive and flourish and produce the sons and daughters to guide and direct Cymru Fydd. It must be remembered, however, that stringent economic considerations should not necessarily override the real and urgent needs and concerns of local communities. A lesson may be learned here.Returning to the topic of the blogosphere it is heartening to note the appearance of new bloggers devoted to the cause. I refer to the blogs opf John Dixon and Carwyn Fowler who both stood as candidates in the recent local elections. They both have a valuable contribution to make to the blogosphere and their views should be read and noted. One point which came up is the invidious position of "Independents" who proliferate in local councils, but are inevitably Tories in disguise or Labouritesin sheep's clothing. They should fly their true colours and be counted. There are in fact very few truly independent councillors who stand up for their own beliefs. Depending which areas of Wales they live in they profess to be Independents knowing that to proclaim themselves as Tory or Labour would be their death sentence.This blog has been consistent throughout its existence. It has been derided by some, attacked by others and praised by those with perspicacity and loyalty to the cause. It is not unduly ideological - that is not its modus vivendi. It exists, as Plaid Cymru exists, to proclaim and defend the national spirit and identity, the language and the culture of Wales, and to expose the flagrant deceptions which the history books and an all-enveloping British education have produced, whereby national events have been ignored and cultural institutions have been excluded from the curriculum. There is, without any doubt, a rise in the consciousness of the nation and a new confidence that Wales is well on the road to maturity and independence. It is expressed in sport, in the media, in the scattered communities throughout the land.The arguments are indisputable; Wales is a nation in ascendance. Cymru am byth!

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Above was originally posted in Independence Cymru: Wales' by alanindyfed. I have posted it here with out much further comment as really it's very difficult to knock such opptimism by someone who is really sincere about his Welsh Nationalism. Yes! there are already appearing flies in the ointment, and for me the biggest bloody Blue Bottle is Dafydd 'Dic Sion' Ellis Thomas. However, my main nagging doubt is that coalitions usually require comprimise, so will Welsh Independence Referendum be the price to pay? Time will tell? Meanwhile enjoy the opptimism while you can as I will be back some time, sooner or later with my usual Patriotic Pessimism. Have not been too busy with this THE WELSH PATRIOT blog for a while, but have been pretty active in my other blogs, inc Welsh Remembrancer at http://welshremembrancer.blogspot.com

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WELSH REPUBLICANS and British Army Recruiting Sergeants

Some ''Retro Welsh Republicans'' are having problems regards matters concerning the British Army and their Welsh Mercenary Regiments. Of course the Welsh have been loyally fighting for the English, in conquest of their own country from 1080's to 1400's, for English causes as at Crecy and Azincourt. Not least for the English Empire from North America to Africa, to India and not least in Ireland. In all this time I can only find a few accounts of the Welsh not happy about Conscription into the English/British Army, the one in 1294 when one of the reasons for National Revolt of that year was the English conscripting them to fight in Scotland. There were a number of occasions when the Welsh in the 16th century were none to happy about fighting in Ireland, and indeed I have record, I am now researching about Welsh actually fighting for the Catholic Irish against the Protestant English (More info to be posted in the Autumn).

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It will take many centuries to pass before the Welsh complain and resist again, although there may have been some discontent in the 17th century English Civil war period, it's in the 18th century that we start seeing Anti - Conscription riots. However, Welsh hostility to the English/British Army is not on the same level as Irish opposition, though do note that 1000's of Irish served in English Armies during the Napoleonic Wars and in the first and even the second world war. I can only find one Welsh rebelliousness to British Army during WWI, and that is a mutiny of ''Bolshie Welsh Miners'' serving in the Welsh Regiment, this mutiny takes place in Porthcawl and his over a matter of conditions they have to put up with while waiting to be sent to France. It was however, not just fact that they were stuck on a cold wet common with not tents and awful food, but fact also they used ex - London Bobbies as Sergeants to train them. Yes! rather stupid move by the military after 1910 etc, and use of London coppers to put down strikes by miners.

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C'mon Welsh ''Rebel'' Folk singers, if any? how's about a song about this mutiny, to help one and all get into a Welsh Rebel Music tradition, well we have to invent one really. See Irish Rebel Music below, in particular the one titled THE BRITISH ARMY, there is a Welsh Version of this we used to sing, yes! in the 60's. Anyone out there got the words of this, I have lost my copies of Welsh Patriotic Songs.
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Triskelle - Song Lyrics: The British Army and says I: "If I had a face like you, I'd join the British army". Corporal Daly went away, his wife got in the family way And the only thing that she could ...www.triskelle.eu/lyrics/britisharmy.php?index=080.010.020.020 - 16k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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An Phoblacht: Rambling Jack - the Fenian Balladeer 20 Dec 2007 ... The anti-recruiting ballad is one of the great strains of Irish resistance .... when a group of West Britons objected to his rebel songs. www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/22600 - 33k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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Irish Anti-Recruiting Protest. - 09:22 A remarkable demonstration of protest against the recruiting campaign that ... Irish airs. an,ong them a number of what ar popularly known as "rebel" tunes ...query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F5061FFF3B5B13738DDDAA0A94D9415B838DF1D3 - 2k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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RELATED TO ABOVE BUT IN A SCOTTISH CONNECTION, despite fact that The Bruce was in the army of Edward in the Conquest of Wales (ok! Glyndwr ditto Scotland). But as a Merthyr lad, I am of course regretful of fact that it was Scots Soldiers who were responsible for the 3 June 1831 Merthyr Massacre, see RED REMEMBRANCER at http://redremembrancer.blogspot.com/ Having said that still see via links below, info on play BLACK WATCH by the National Theatre of Scotland, maybe the new National Theatre of Wales will give us similar one day, perhaps about the ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS, call it RWF! RWF! RWF! at it's roots a real Brit Protest Regiment with reputation of ''British Loyalism'' during the American War of Independence and not least in Ireland, and yes! these guys loved their Dydd Dewi, leek eating and loyal toasts to the English Crown.

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Black Watch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia prior to 28 March 2006, the Black Watch was an infantry regiment in its own right; The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) from 1931 to 2006, ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Watch - 68k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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Home Blackwatch Hurtling from a pool room in Fife to an armoured wagon in Iraq, Black Watch is based on interviews conducted by Gregory Burke with former soldiers who ...www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/content/default.asp?page=home_showblackwatch - 15k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this .

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Black Watch - Reviews BLACK WATCH PRESS REVIEWS. Reviews from USA Tour 07. Put simply, it's essential that you see Black Watch . . . it's among the most compelling theater pieces ...www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/content/default.asp?page=s161 - 19k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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Arts Council of Wales 9 Apr 2008 ... The internationally acclaimed 'Black Watch' to debut in Ebbw Vale ... It is being brought to Wales through the support of the Heads of the ...www.artswales.org.uk/viewnews.asp?id=827 - 28k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this .

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Great Scots play will be one to watch in Wales - icWales It is being brought to Wales through the support of the Heads of the Valleys ... Heritage Minister, Rhodri Glyn Thomas said: “The success of Black Watch is ...icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/.../2008/04/12/great-scots-play-will-be-one-to-watch-in-wales-91466-20754279/ - 39k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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Leighton Andrews: Black Watch Their acclaimed production Black Watch can only be seen in Wales in Ebbw Vale from 15th to 17th May. Black Watch is based on interviews conducted by ...www.leightonandrews.com/2008/04/black-watch.html - 56k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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Did you enjoy that? if so, more of same over at ADFYWIAD GWLADGAROL at http://adfywiad.blogspot.com/

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Hwyl to all Heretics, particularly Welsh Ones!

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Gethin.

JAROSLAW DABROWSKI Polish Patriot, Revolutionary Nationalist and Paris Communard 1871.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaros%C5%82aw_D%C4%85browski For further information on the Paris Commune, see Red Remembrancer at http://redremembrancer.blogspot.com

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radwan_coat_of_arms Yes! Three Feathers, suggest you unpick the 'Ich Dien' of your WRU and tell people it's the Coat of Arms of Jaroslaw Dabrowski.

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Of major interest associated with Jarowslaw Dabrowski is >>> Land and Liberty (Russia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Whilst on subject of Land and Liberty, check out Zapata and the Mexican Revolution. Plus note Land War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia also see Land Wars in New Zealand >>> New Zealand land wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . Do a search on Google and much more will come up on the theme of Land Wars, not least regards Ireland, see below:
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IRELAND's LAND WAR & THE IRISH REPUBLICAN BROTHERHOOD, of which 2008 is 150th Anniversary of it's founding in 1858. There will be held a number of Commemorative Events and activities, including lectures. plus Plaques placed and unvieled, see links >>> The Land War in Irish History was a period of agrarian agitation in rural Ireland in the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s. The agitation was led by the Irish National ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_War - 22k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this More results from en.wikipedia.org » In addition note that this year is 150th anniversary of Irish Republican Brotherhood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) was a secret Oath bound fraternal organisation dedicated to the establishment of an "independent democratic Republic" ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Brotherhood - 104k - Cached - Similar pages also see >>> An Phoblacht: Irish Republican Brotherhood : 150th Anniversary 13 Mar 2008 ... Denieffe gives it as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood but it became the Irish Republican Brotherhood and under that name it lasted in ...www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/26244 - 22k - Cached - Similar pages
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WELSH LAND WARS: Begin in the age of Conquest & Colonisation 1094 - 1294, the clearing out of the Welsh Native from the fertile lowlands into the none to fertile highlands gave us the 'Englishry' and the 'Welshry'. For 200 years this become the status quo of a Socio - Economic Aparthied. Following on the conquest of 1282, a Welsh Rebellion of 1294 against the ''Edwardian Settlement'' was in response to Taxation, Conscription and Ethnic Cleansing of Welsh from good lands as in Y Perfeddwlad of the new English County of Denbighshire. A further rebellion in the South in 1316 led by Llywelyn Bren was in response to famine and continued high taxation, this concluded with the surrender and execution of Llywelyn Bren. This ''Medieval Welsh Zapata'' of Senghenydd, Carffili, is an hero largelly forgotten but not so Owain Glyndwr and his largelly ''Peasant Uprising'' of 1400 - 16.

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In wake of this Glyndwr war, over the following century the native population was to reclaim much of the lowlands, and other lands of which their ancestors had been dispossesed. This was made possible by the Glyndwr war having killed many English Colonists, whilst many others had fled back to England and never returned. This left English Lords with out Tennants to farm their lands, and thus they began inviting the Welsh back into the ''Englishries''. Somewhat ironically, the Welsh Natives who re-occupied the Vale of Glamorgan during the 16th century were by the late 18th into 19th centuries returning to the 'Uplands' to become workers in the Iron works and Coal mines. All this led to a lack of farm labour in the Vale, and Land Lords had to invite in English Farm Labourers, so once again the Vale become re-colonised by English Settlers who who would make it as anglicised as it is today.

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The Act of Annexation 1536 was to be such that it favoured the gentry rather than the tennant farmer or peasant small holder. From the 16th century to the 18th Century Wales as other countries of the British Isles was to witness land enclosure and subsequently Tennant Farmer and Peasant small holder resistance to the gentry land grabbing of common and unused highland wastes. It was resistance to Land enclosures in Caio, West Wales that led to the rallying call of 'Trech Gwlad Nag Arglwydd'. Wales did not witness a land grab on the scale of the Highland Clearences, nor a violent land war has took place in Ireland. Although land disturbences and riots were many throughout the land, not least on Mynydd Bach, Ceredigion in 1826, see book cover opposite. Do obtain, it's an excellent read, it's a pity that there is no good account of Land Enclosures in Wales, there is the book 'Before Rebecca' by David J.V. Jones. On subject of the Rebecca Rural Revolt you will find much on the web, below is a photo of recently unvieled photo of Rebecca Riotors attacking a gate. The Wooden Sculpture is in the West Wales Village of San Cler/Saint Clear, it's great to see our Social History being commemorated this way but I remember a time when it was not.

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Some years ago, 25 plus years ago, I endevoured to advance idea of a Memorial (Sculpture/Plaque) to commemorate Rhyfel Y Sais Bach. A meeting was held in a local village hall and a case was made for which there was little local support, some of the excuse by local Welsh were pretty pathetic to say the least, such as ''there was no need for such as they would always remember 1826 in our hearts and minds''. Oh Yea! I was told later, that the real reason for local Welsh reluctance was fear of upsetting English who had settle the area because they needed their support to keep the local School open. Guess what? within a couple of months the School was closed down, and it's fact not ''racist'' if I make known the fact that today there are possibly more English settled on and around area of Mynydd Bach than native Welsh. No! still no Remember 1826 Memorial but plenty of Windmills about area of Mynydd Bach. Hopefully, now a brilliant little book has been published on Rhyfel y Sais Bach, it might enspire Ceredigion Patriots to begin work towards advancing a memorial, possibly in Trefenter? Whatever, I urge one and all to visit the area, and surely the whole theme of the story, lends itself great to a Welsh Land & Liberty/Wales is Not for Sale gathering, maybe an annual rally.

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Anyway, where was I, ah yes! Enclosures, great area here for some one to do some major research and study on this subject in Welsh History, who out there amongst you wants to volunteer to become a Welsh Remembrancer and Hedge Teacher, specialising in this subject. I suggest it needs to be some one who has a good interest in Land and Liberty, in the past and in the present, see link >>> TLIO - The Land Is Ours- Homepage. Campaigning for Access to the Land. The Land will cover UK & International land campaigns - peasant ... We will start by producing 2 issues a year, but aim to bring it up to 3 or 4 per year. ...www.tlio.org.uk/ - 15k - Cached - Similar pages . Maybe we need a Welsh 'LAND & LIBERTY LEAGUE' to be established in our times, these themes I shall continue over at RED REMEMBRANCER at http://redremembrancer.blogspot.com

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It might appear that I have wandered away from main purpose of post in first place, but no! as I am taking you in a certain direction. This year I shall be focusing a great deal on 1848 'The Year of Revolution' aka 'The Spring of Nations', there is a prologue to 1848, that begins in 1815/16 and comes to major conclusions between 1831 and 1839, both in Wales and in Europe. The epilogue to 1848, are the years leading up to the Paris Commune of 1871 & beyond, these are long periods of history and I only label them prologues and epilogues to serve my 1848 focus and regular blog posting purpose this year.

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Crucial throughout this century is understanding both rural agrarian and urbanizing Industrial societies, again in Wales and Europe. For in this period we witness Rural Labourers becoming Industrial workers, and also peasants are made citizens, see link here as starter in this area of study >>> http://www.beyondbooks.com:80/eur12/2c.asp?pf=on In a Welsh context the ''Peasant'' sure enough becomes an Industrial Worker, and this is crucial to our understanding of the events of 1831, particularlly in Pentre Penderyn and Hirwaun, Lewis Lewis connection. Not then with out implications regards Merthyr 1831 and Newport 1839 on to the Wales of 1848, from here we see a ''Cultural Nationalist Wales'' politicising itself. This of course leads toward Cymru Fydd and a Wales of Tithe Wars in the 1880's rather than of a Land War, these are the years of Welsh Radical Liberalism, of Cymru Fydd. However, the dream of turning Welsh Peasants or Workers into ''Welsh Citizens'' fails, instead they become British Citizens. It's a tangled and still controversial story that still motivates and influences Welsh Politics today, as example of recent controversy over the ''Chartist Legacy'' and who owns it? Plaid or Labour (see a future post on this subject). But first more on 1848! all to be posted in this blog: The Welsh Patriot.

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Gethin.