Wales glossary
Wales glossary
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SupplicationAppeals to God through prayer, usually for the forgiveness of sins and the release of souls from purgatory. | |
SWMFSee South Wales Miners' Federation. | |
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TaliesinSixth-century poet, the author of a number of poems contained in the fourteenth-century Book of Taliesin. | |
Tân yn Llŷn(‘Fire in Llŷn’). On 8 September 1936 Lewis, Saunders, D.J. Williams and Lewis Valentine – three members of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru, started a fire at a government ‘bombing school’ at Penyberth on the Llŷn Peninsula. Following the failure of a Caernarfon jury to agree a verdict, the trial was reheard in London, where the three were convicted and sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment. | |
Tenant-in-chiefA magnate holding land directly from the king, as Llywelyn and the greater earls did. | |
Test and Corporation ActsActs of 1661, 1673 and 1678 which prevented non-Anglicans from holding public office or being on municipal corporations. The Acts were repealed in 1828. | |
Thomas, D. ALater Lord Rhondda. Liberal MP, coalowner, ally of Lloyd George. Helped create Cymru Fydd – and destroy it. | |
Thomas, Dylan(1914–1953). Swansea-born poet, dramatist and short-story writer of international standing. | |
Thomas, Gwyn(1913–1981), novelist and playwright , from Porth, Rhondda. | |