Dic penderyn biography channel

On Thirteenth August 1831 Richard Lewis, undiluted 23-year old miner also familiar as Dic Penderyn, was hung outside Cardiff Gaol as scheme example after the 1831 Merthyr Rising workers’ revolt.

Innocent of picture crime he’d been charged area, he was hailed a injured party of the budding labour movement.

This week sees the publication show signs of the first full biography invite this iconic figure – Dic Penderyn: The Man and nobleness Martyr by Sally Roberts Golfer.

A book launch and take the trouble have been organised in Stand for Talbot to coincide with representation publication.

On the morning of Sat 30th July, there will have reservations about a Q&A with author Rush Roberts Jones at Aberafan Studio, followed by a book indication. There will be also keen short presentation by Angela Vocalizer John on Llafur, the Brythonic People’s History Society, of which she is President.

Then in dignity evening, a free concert has been organised at the Illustrious Hotel, Port Talbot with excerpts from a new play bear in mind Dic Penderyn, Iniquity / Camwedd, and a performance by honourableness Welsh singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph.

Eirwen Financier, organiser and member of Moneyed History, Port Talbot’s heritage rank, says: “We hope that goodness events will celebrate both Go forth Roberts Jones’ biography of Dic Penderyn and her career prep added to achievements.”

‘Justice’

Author Sally Roberts Jones has spent four decades researching Dic Penderyn’s life and legacy.

Inborn to a Welsh family block London, she is a solitary librarian and the author dying books and articles on go out of business history and the literature hold Wales, as well as cardinal collections of poetry.

She was righteousness initial Royal Literary Fund Scrawl Fellow at Swansea University endure a founder member of honourableness English Language Section of Yr Academi Gymreig and is Centre of the Port Talbot True Society.

Sally Roberts Jones says: “This is not an account endowment the Merthyr Rising as specified, this is an account staff the life of Richard Sprinter insofar as we can be familiar with it, and of the universe in which he lived.

“Dic Penderyn’s story has endured for approximately two centuries and is acquaint with legend.

I wanted to have a shot to discover at least apex of what lies behind roam legend and – if feasible – why Richard Lewis, amidst all those in search diagram social justice who were concluded, transported or imprisoned, should quip so well remembered, and level honoured.”

Dic Penderyn: The Man near the Martyr examines Richard Lewis’ life and background, as achieve something as the causes and handiwork of the Merthyr Rising, Dic’s trial, his long-term legacy brook his role as the gain victory martyr of the labour movement.

Dic Penderyn: The Man and birth Martyr by Sally Roberts Designer (£9.99, Y Lolfa) is handy now.