1975 in Wales

Centuries:	18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; ;
Decades:	1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1975 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

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

Incumbents

Secretary of State for Wales – John Morris^[1]
Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor^[2]
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
- Brinli (outgoing)^[3]
- Bryn (incoming)^[4]

Events

20 March - Opening of the Cleddau Bridge at Milford Haven.^[5]
14 April - Actor/singer Michael Flanders dies suddenly of an intracranial berry aneurysm while on holiday in Betws-y-Coed.^[6]
May - A leak from the Esso Tenby tanker off the coast of Pembrokeshire kills an estimated 1,300 seabirds.^[7]
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.^[8]

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
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Elwyn Roberts
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)^[9]
Richard Llewellyn - Green, Green, My Valley Now
Moelwyn Merchant - Breaking the Code^[10]
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^[11]

Welsh language

Aneirin Talfan Davies - Diannerch Erchwyn a Cherddi Eraill^[12]
J. Eirian Davies - Cân Galed
T. Glynne Davies - Marged
Richard Cyril Hughes - Catrin o Ferain^[13]
T. Llew Jones - Tân ar y Comin^[14]
Alan Llwyd - Edrych Trwy Wydrau Lledrith^[15]
Marged Pritchard - Gwylanod ar y Mynydd^[16]
Eurys Rowlands (ed.) - Lewys Môn
Gwyn Thomas - Y Pethau Diwethaf a Phethau Eraill^[17]

New drama

W. S. Jones - Y Toblarôn
Saunders Lewis - Dwy Briodas Ann^[18]

Music

Max Boyce - We All Had Doctors' Papers^[19]
Edward H. Dafis - Ffordd Newydd Eingl-Americanaidd Grêt o Fyw^[20]
Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet^[21]
Andy Fairweather-Low - La Booga Rooga, album featuring the top ten hit single "Wide Eyed and Legless"^[22]

Film

Rachel Roberts appears in Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Ken Loach's Days of Hope is partly set in Wales.

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.^[23]

English-language television

Grand Slam, starring Hugh Griffith and Windsor Davies
How Green Was My Valley adapted for television by Elaine Morgan, starring Stanley Baker, Sian Phillips, Mike Gwilym, Nerys Hughes and Gareth Thomas.
Angharad Rees stars in Poldark.

Sport

Boxing – Pat Thomas wins the British Welterweight title.
Darts – Wales win the Home International Series.
Football – The Wales national football team qualifies for the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 1976.
Snooker – Ray Reardon wins his fourth World Championship title.^[24]
Arfon Griffiths wins BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year.^[25]

Births

12 March - Richard Harrington, actor^[26]
21 March - Mark Williams, snooker player
5 April - John Hartson, footballer
22 May - Kelly Morgan, badminton player
18 June - Jem, singer
24 July - Dafydd James, rugby player
4 September - Kai Owen, actor
26 September - Dai Thomas, footballer
19 October - Jamie Donaldson, golfer
28 October - Adrian Durston, rugby player
5 November - Lisa Scott-Lee, singer
25 November - Paul Mealor, composer
date unknown
- Euros Childs, songwriter
- Cynan Jones, novelist

Deaths

14 February - Arthur Probert, politician, 67^[27]
23 February - Ossie Male, rugby player, 81
3 March - T. H. Parry-Williams, poet, 87^[28]
15 March - Edward James, cricketer, 78
6 April - Tom Morgan, cricketer, 81
23 April - Pete Ham, musician, leader of the group Badfinger (suicide), 27^[29]
24 April - Stephen Halden Beattie, recipient of the Victoria Cross, 67^[30]
21 May - A. H. Dodd, historian, 83^[31]
7 June - Jack Smith, footballer, 63
8 July - T. G. E. Powell, archaeologist, 59^[32]
7 August - Jim Griffiths, politician, 84^[33]
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^[34]
date unknown
- Robert Herring, poet and critic, 72^[35]
- Alun Jeremiah Jones (Alun Cilie), poet^[36]
- Huw Lloyd Edwards, dramatist

References

^ "Morris of Aberavon, Baron, (John Morris) (born Nov. 1931)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u28179. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
^ David Wilbourne (8 June 2018). "Archbishop Gwilym Owen Williams — "G. O.": His life and opinions by D. T. W. Price". Church Times. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
^ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 523. ISBN 978-0-19-211586-7.
^ Dillwyn Miles (1992). The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain. Gwasg Dinefwr Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-9519926-0-9.
^ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1994). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons official report. H.M. Stationery Office. ISBN 978-0-10-681251-6.
^ Meyer, Michael, "Flanders, Michael Henry (1922–1975)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 3 May 2013 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ "Digest of Welsh Statistics" (PDF). p. 1. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
^ "Glamorgan Gwent Archaeology is part of Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology". GGAT. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
^ Joseph Jenkins; William Evans (1977). Diary of a Welsh Swagman, 1869-1894. Sun Books. ISBN 978-0-7251-0246-3.
^ David Shaw; Paul Merchant (3 May 1997). "Obituary: The Rev Professor W. Moelwyn Merchant". The Independent. Archived from the original on 15 May 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
^ "Obituary: Rhydwen Williams". Independent.co.uk. 22 October 2011.
^ Llên Cymru. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. 2004. p. 115.
^ The New Beacon. Royal National Institute for the Blind. 1985. p. 219.
^ Daniel Hahn; Michael Morpurgo (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford University Press. pp. 314–. ISBN 978-0-19-969514-0.
^ Glyn Jones; John Rowlands (1980). Profiles: a visitors' guide to writing in twentieth century Wales. Gomer. p. 185. ISBN 9780850887136.
^ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 494. ISBN 978-0-19-211586-7.
^ Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman; Gwilym Rees Hughes; Dafydd Johnston (1998). A Guide to Welsh Literature: c. 1900-1996. University of Wales Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-7083-1424-1.
^ Ioan M. Williams (1 January 1991). A Straitened Stage: A Study of the Theatre of J. Saunders Lewis. Seren Books. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-85411-043-5.
^ Lawrence Goldman (7 March 2013). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008. OUP Oxford. p. 616. ISBN 978-0-19-967154-0.
^ Sarah Hill (5 July 2017). 'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music. Taylor & Francis. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-351-57345-0.
^ Mike Clifford (1986). The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock. Harmony Books. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-517-56264-2.
^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: L". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 1, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^ David Maxwell Barlow; Tom O'Malley; Philip Mitchell (2005). The media in Wales: voices of a small nation. University of Wales Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-7083-1840-9.
^ "Profile: Ray Reardon". Eurosport. 2 March 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
^ "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
^ "Dal Ati". Archived from the original on 18 December 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
^ Labour Party (Great Britain) (1974). Report of the Annual Conference. Labour Representation Committee.
^ Evans, Ellis (2004). "Williams, Sir Thomas Herbert Parry- (1887–1975)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37835. Retrieved 2007-07-25. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Joseph Murrells (1978). The Book of Golden Discs. Barrie and Jenkins. ISBN 978-0-214-20480-7.
^ Who was who. A. & C. Black. 1971. ISBN 9780312877460.
^ Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. W. Pickering. 1976. p. 137.
^ Darvill, Timothy, ed. (2009). "Powell, Thomas George Eyre". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001. ISBN 9780191727139.
^ Labour Party (Great Britain) (1974). Report of the Annual Conference. Labour Representation Committee.
^ Ioan Wyn Gruffydd. "Parry, Robert Ivor (1908-1975), minister (Cong.) and school teacher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
^ James Donald; Anne Friedberg; Laura Marcus (1 January 1998). Close Up: Cinema And Modernism. A&C Black. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-304-33516-9.
^ Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.

[1] "Morris of Aberavon, Baron, (John Morris) (born Nov. 1931)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u28179. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 2021-05-05.

[2] David Wilbourne (8 June 2018). "Archbishop Gwilym Owen Williams — "G. O.": His life and opinions by D. T. W. Price". Church Times. Retrieved 6 May 2022.

[3] Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 523. ISBN 978-0-19-211586-7.

[4] Dillwyn Miles (1992). The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain. Gwasg Dinefwr Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-9519926-0-9.

[5] Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1994). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons official report. H.M. Stationery Office. ISBN 978-0-10-681251-6.

[6] Meyer, Michael, "Flanders, Michael Henry (1922–1975)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 3 May 2013 (subscription or UK public library membership required)

[7] "Digest of Welsh Statistics" (PDF). p. 1. Retrieved 7 May 2022.

[8] "Glamorgan Gwent Archaeology is part of Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology". GGAT. Retrieved 17 August 2024.

[9] Joseph Jenkins; William Evans (1977). Diary of a Welsh Swagman, 1869-1894. Sun Books. ISBN 978-0-7251-0246-3.

[10] David Shaw; Paul Merchant (3 May 1997). "Obituary: The Rev Professor W. Moelwyn Merchant". The Independent. Archived from the original on 15 May 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2019.

[11] "Obituary: Rhydwen Williams". Independent.co.uk. 22 October 2011.

[12] Llên Cymru. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. 2004. p. 115.

[13] The New Beacon. Royal National Institute for the Blind. 1985. p. 219.

[14] Daniel Hahn; Michael Morpurgo (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford University Press. pp. 314–. ISBN 978-0-19-969514-0.

[15] Glyn Jones; John Rowlands (1980). Profiles: a visitors' guide to writing in twentieth century Wales. Gomer. p. 185. ISBN 9780850887136.

[16] Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 494. ISBN 978-0-19-211586-7.

[17] Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman; Gwilym Rees Hughes; Dafydd Johnston (1998). A Guide to Welsh Literature: c. 1900-1996. University of Wales Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-7083-1424-1.

[18] Ioan M. Williams (1 January 1991). A Straitened Stage: A Study of the Theatre of J. Saunders Lewis. Seren Books. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-85411-043-5.

[19] Lawrence Goldman (7 March 2013). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008. OUP Oxford. p. 616. ISBN 978-0-19-967154-0.

[20] Sarah Hill (5 July 2017). 'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music. Taylor & Francis. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-351-57345-0.

[21] Mike Clifford (1986). The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock. Harmony Books. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-517-56264-2.

[22] Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: L". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 1, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.

[23] David Maxwell Barlow; Tom O'Malley; Philip Mitchell (2005). The media in Wales: voices of a small nation. University of Wales Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-7083-1840-9.

[24] "Profile: Ray Reardon". Eurosport. 2 March 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019.

[25] "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 July 2021.

[26] "Dal Ati". Archived from the original on 18 December 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.

[27] Labour Party (Great Britain) (1974). Report of the Annual Conference. Labour Representation Committee.

[28] Evans, Ellis (2004). "Williams, Sir Thomas Herbert Parry- (1887–1975)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37835. Retrieved 2007-07-25. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[29] Joseph Murrells (1978). The Book of Golden Discs. Barrie and Jenkins. ISBN 978-0-214-20480-7.

[30] Who was who. A. & C. Black. 1971. ISBN 9780312877460.

[31] Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. W. Pickering. 1976. p. 137.

[32] Darvill, Timothy, ed. (2009). "Powell, Thomas George Eyre". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001. ISBN 9780191727139.

[33] Labour Party (Great Britain) (1974). Report of the Annual Conference. Labour Representation Committee.

[34] Ioan Wyn Gruffydd. "Parry, Robert Ivor (1908-1975), minister (Cong.) and school teacher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 December 2019.

[35] James Donald; Anne Friedberg; Laura Marcus (1 January 1998). Close Up: Cinema And Modernism. A&C Black. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-304-33516-9.

[36] Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.

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1975 in Wales

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

Awards

New books

English language

Welsh language

New drama

Music

Film

Welsh-language films

Broadcasting

Welsh-language television

English-language television

Sport

Births

Deaths

See also

References