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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1978 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Events

  • March/April - Closure of the steelworks in Ebbw Vale and East Moors.[3]
  • The Welsh Office is given responsibility for further and higher education in Wales.
  • The National Language Centre is established at Nant Gwrtheyrn in the Lleyn peninsula.[4]

Arts and literature

Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Cardiff)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - withheld[6]
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Siôn Eirian[7]
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Harri Williams

New books

English language

Welsh language

Music

Film

Broadcasting

Welsh-language television

English-language television

English-language radio

  • 13 November - BBC Radio Wales is launched,[13] following the demise of the 'Radio 4 Wales' service (previously the Welsh Home Service). The first show is AM, presented by Anita Morgan.

Sport

Births

Deaths

  • 6 January - Ted Jones, trade union leader, 81[17]
  • 11 January - William John Edwards, Cerdd Dant singer, 79
  • 17 February - Joseph Owen, cricketer, 69[18]
  • 20 February - Tom Jones, footballer, 88[19]
  • 23 February - Arwyn Davies, Baron Arwyn, politician, 80[20]
  • 24 February - David Williams, historian, 78[21]
  • 2 March - Frances Williams, composer, [22]
  • 6 March - David Price-White, lawyer and politician, 71[23]
  • 4 April - Sir Morien Morgan, aeronautics engineer, 65[24]
  • 9 April - Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, 94[25]
  • 13 April - William Rees-Thomas, psychiatrist, 90[26]
  • 14 April - Thomas Hollingdale, Wales rugby union international, 77
  • 16 April - Eddie Morgan, Wales international rugby player, 64
  • 25 April - Harry Griffiths, footballer and manager, 47
  • 18 May - Selwyn Lloyd, politician, 73[27]
  • 2 July - Philip Scott Yorke, last Squire of Erddig, 73
  • 21 August - Rhys Davies, 76, novelist and short story writer[28]
  • 25 August - Tyssul Griffiths, rugby player, 59
  • 4 September – Leonora Cohen, suffragette, trade unionist and feminist, 105
  • 12 September - Bobby Delahay, Wales rugby union captain, 78
  • 13 November - W. S. Gwynn Williams, composer, 82[29]
  • 23 November - Edward Jones, 82, cricketer[30]
  • 16 December - Harry Phillips, Wales international rugby player, 75

See also

References

  1. ^ a b NA NA (25 December 2015). The Macmillan Guide to the United Kingdom 1978-79. Springer. p. 875. ISBN 978-1-349-81511-1.
  2. ^ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 220.
  3. ^ Sander Meredeen (1 August 1988). Managing industrial conflict: seven major disputes. Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0-09-173226-4.
  4. ^ Mari C. Jones (1998). Language Obsolescence and Revitalization: Linguistic Change in Two Sociolinguistically Contrasting Welsh Communities. Clarendon Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-19-823711-2.
  5. ^ Printing History. American Printing History Association. 1987.
  6. ^ "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.
  7. ^ David Ben Rees (1981). Wales: The Cultural Heritage. G.W. & A. Hesketh. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-905777-16-0.
  8. ^ Matthew Jarvis (2008). Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry: Writing Wales in English. University of Wales Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-7083-2152-2.
  9. ^ David Howell (1984). British Workers and the Independent Labour Party, 1888-1906. Manchester University Press. p. 446. ISBN 978-0-7190-1791-9.
  10. ^ Katie Gramich (2007). Twentieth-century Women's Writing in Wales: Land, Gender, Belonging. University of Wales Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-7083-2086-0.
  11. ^ The Economist. Economist Newspaper Limited. 1978. p. 30.
  12. ^ Steven Blandford (2000). Wales on Screen. Seren. ISBN 978-1-85411-248-4.
  13. ^ Aldridge, Meryl (1 April 2007). Understanding The Local Media. McGraw-Hill Education (UK). p. 135. ISBN 978-0-335-22172-1.
  14. ^ "Welsh Open Snooker trophy named after legend Ray Reardon". BBC Sport. 28 September 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  15. ^ "Profile: Doug Mountjoy". Eurosport. 3 December 2009. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  16. ^ "Rachael Bland obituary". The Guardian. 7 September 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  17. ^ Keith Gildart, "Jones, Edward ('Ted')", Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.XIV, pp.188–199
  18. ^ Joseph Owen at CricketArchive
  19. ^ "Thomas Jones". mufcinfo.com. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  20. ^ Who was who. A. & C. Black. 1971. p. 28.
  21. ^ "Williams, David". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63676. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  22. ^ Charles Eugene Claghorn (1 January 1996). Women Composers and Songwriters: A Concise Biographical Dictionary. Scarecrow Press. pp. 236-7. ISBN 978-0-8108-3130-8.
  23. ^ John Graham Jones. "Price-White, David Archibald Price (1906-1978), Conservative politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  24. ^ Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal. Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute. 1978.
  25. ^ Richard Haslam; Clough Williams-Ellis (1996). Clough Williams-Ellis. Academy Editions. ISBN 978-1-85490-430-0.
  26. ^ REES-THOMAS, William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 28 Dec 2012
  27. ^ Bassil A. Mardelli (April 2010). Middle East Perspectives: Personal Recollections (1947 - 1967). iUniverse. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-4502-1116-1.
  28. ^ Huw Osborne (1 July 2009). Rhys Davies. University of Wales Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-7083-2242-0.
  29. ^ Rhidian Griffiths. "Williams, William Sidney Gwynn (1896-1978), musician and administrator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  30. ^ Hignell, Dr. A.K. (December 2003). "Brief profile of Edward Jones". Retrieved 23 September 2011.
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