Owain Glyndwr Communicates.: COFIWN ROBAT AP STEFFAN (Castro)
- [ Translate this page ]12 Ion 2011 ... It is with great sadness that I write this tribute in memory of Rhobert ap Steffan or 'Castro' as he was fondly referred to by his long term ...
owain-glyndwr-embassyllysgenhadaeth.blogspot.com/.../cofiwn-robat-ap-steffan-castro.html -Cached
Independence Cymru
It is with great sadness that I write this tribute in memory of Rhobert ap Steffan or 'Castro' as he was fondly referred to by his long term friends and ...
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Post Script For A Patriot.
So soon after the death of Vernon Griffith late last year writting this in memory of Robert ap Steffan is the last thing I though I would be doing at the start of this year, so sad his passing. I first met Robert when he turned up in Pencoed with a 'Company' of Rhondda FWA, by that I mean youngsters, as we all were then (See foto in blog link below). The 'wearing of the green', the percieved 'uniform' was no more than a means of youthful 'Hwntws' to identify with the cause of Welsh Freedom. Robert was wearing the full FWA kit but it was the 'Castro Cap' which was to give him the nick name that stuck with him all his life although Robert was to mature patriotically via activism on behalf of CyIG in their 'Sixties Campaigns', he nevertheless was a radical Anti - Investiture Activist. Robert was in time to become a 'Plaid Man' via membership of the Young Nationalist Association and remained so all his life and although not becoming an 'Alternative Nationalist' as many did over the years, he nevertheless supported a number of causes and campaigns keenly advanced seperate of Plaid Cymru as the Census Campaign. Not least Robert was a keen supporters of Cymric Consciosness Campaigning and associated work in areas of Welsh History as noted in the Embassy Glyndwr link above and below. Robert was a regular writter of letters to the Western Mail on a verity of Nationalist subjects and a regular attendee of the annual Rali Cilmeri where hence, I am sure he will be most sorely missed by his fellow 'Cilmeriaid' .
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There are two fotos of 'Sixties' Robert in first blog link below, this post also gives good account of the 'Sixties Struggle' but from a Patriotic Front perspective. I really could do for the AWNM&S History Archive a fuller account on the Young Nationalist Association and the Celtic League, their Youth Congress in particular. Can any one out there write up for me and I willl post up in the ANWM&S Archive or otherwise this will be crucial activist history lost, so please some one write asap also ap Sion when are you going to write something up on your Welsh Republican activism before that history disappears too!
The National Patriotic Front 1964 - 1966 - Cilmeri Commemoration
- 7 vists - i10:2029 Nov 2006 ... The National Patriotic Front stands fourth within context of the AlternativeNationalist Movement and Struggle has the post important ...
Alternative Welsh Nationalist Archive: The Anti - Investiture ...
- 12 visits - 20/12/201026 Apr 2007 ... ABERGELE MARTYRS COMMEMORATION: AWNM&S Hist Archiv. ...ADFYWIAD 1969: Anti - Investiture Campaign Ephemer... INVESTITURE'69 - Of Freedom...
awnms.blogspot.com/2007/.../anti-investiture-struggle-1966-1967.html - Cached
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens.
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Da Boch Chi Robert, Ogof Glyndwr awaits you!
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Below thanks to Google:
Rhobert ap Steffan
The encyclopaedia will be delivered to Patagonia by Rhobert ap Steffan from Llangadog who will be going to Argentina later this year to raise money for ...
www.rhobertmencap.blogspot.com/ - CachedRhobert ap Steffan is fundraising for Mencap
22 Dec 2008 ... Rhobert ap Steffan. Ymweld/Visit: www.rhobertmencap.blogspot.com ... Pur splan Rhobert ha'n oll an gwella. Donation by Susan Bowen on 22/11/ ...
www.justgiving.com/rhobert - CachedRhobert ap Steffan is fundraising for Mencap
Many thanks ! Rhobert ap Steffan. Ymweld/Visit: www.rhobertmencap.blogspot ...
www.justgiving.com/rhobert/2 - CachedWales: Welsh Braveheart walks tall again - Telegraph
17 Oct 2001 ... I toured the schools," said Robert ap Steffan, the Pied Piper of Llandovery who not only got various public agencies to come up with the ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Wales-Welsh-Braveheart-walks-tall-again.html- G.Gruffydd.
