1975 in Wales

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

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

Incumbents[]

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

Events[]

20 March - Opening of the Cleddau Bridge at Milford Haven.^[2]
14 April - Actor/singer Michael Flanders dies suddenly of an intracranial berry aneurysm while on holiday in Betws-y-Coed.
May - A leak from the Esso Tenby tanker off the coast of Pembrokeshire kills an estimated 1,300 seabirds.
28 July - 8 people are injured when a train derails 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.

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)^[3]
Richard Llewellyn - Green, Green, My Valley Now
Moelwyn Merchant - Breaking the Code
Prys Morgan - Iolo Morganwg
Leslie Norris - Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies
Bernice Rubens - I Sent a Letter to My Love
Peter Tinniswood - Except You're a Bird
Rhydwen Williams - The Angry Vineyard

Welsh language[]

Aneirin Talfan Davies - Diannerch Erchwyn a Cherddi Eraill^[4]
- Cân Galed
T. Glynne Davies - Marged
Richard Cyril Hughes - Catrin o Ferain^[5]
T. Llew Jones - Tân ar y Comin^[6]
- Gwylanod ar y Mynydd^[7]
Eurys Rowlands (ed.) -
Gwyn Thomas - Y Pethau Diwethaf a Phethau Eraill^[8]
John G. Williams - Maes Mihangel

New drama[]

W. S. Jones - Y Toblarôn
Saunders Lewis - Dwy Briodas Ann^[9]

Music[]

Max Boyce - We All Had Doctors' Papers^[10]
- Ffordd Newydd Eingl-Americanaidd Grêt o Fyw^[11]
Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet^[12]
Andy Fairweather-Low - La Booga Rooga, album featuring the top ten hit single "Wide Eyed and Legless"^[13]

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 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.^[14]

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.^[15]
Arfon Griffiths wins BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year.^[16]

Births[]

12 March - Richard Harrington, actor^[17]
21 March - Mark Williams, snooker player
5 April - John Hartson, footballer
22 May - Kelly Morgan, badminton player
18 June - Jem, singer
1 July - Hayley Tullett, athlete
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^[18]
23 February - Ossie Male, rugby player, 81
3 March - T. H. Parry-Williams, poet, 87^[19]
15 March - Edward James, cricketer, 78
6 April - Tom Morgan, cricketer, 81
23 April - Pete Ham, musician, leader of the group Badfinger (suicide), 27^[20]
24 April - Stephen Halden Beattie, recipient of the Victoria Cross, 67^[21]
21 May - A. H. Dodd, historian, 83^[22]
7 June - Jack Smith, footballer, 63
7 August - Jim Griffiths, politician, 84^[23]
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^[24]
date unknown
- Robert Herring, poet and critic, 72^[25]
- (Alun Cilie), poet^[26]
- , dramatist

References[]

^ 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.
^ Joseph Jenkins; William Evans (1977). Diary of a Welsh Swagman, 1869-1894. Sun Books. ISBN 978-0-7251-0246-3.
^ 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.
^ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 494.
^ 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". Retrieved 18 December 2019.
^ Labour Party (Great Britain) (1974). Report of the Annual Conference. Labour Representation Committee.
^ Evans, Ellis. "Williams, Sir Thomas Herbert Parry- (1887–1975)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2007-07-25.
^ Joseph Murrells (1978). The Book of Golden Discs. Barrie and Jenkins. ISBN 978-0-214-20480-7.
^ Who was who. A. & C. Black. 1971.
^ Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. W. Pickering. 1976. p. 137.
^ 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] Dillwyn Miles (1992). The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain. Gwasg Dinefwr Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-9519926-0-9.

[2] 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.

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

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

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

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

[7] Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 494.

[8] 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.

[9] 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.

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

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

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

[13] 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.

[14] 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.

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

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

[17] "Dal Ati". Retrieved 18 December 2019.

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

[19] Evans, Ellis. "Williams, Sir Thomas Herbert Parry- (1887–1975)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2007-07-25.

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

[21] Who was who. A. & C. Black. 1971.

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

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

[24] 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.

[25] 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.

[26] 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

Contents

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[]