Meic Stephens

19 April, 2016
Remembering Meic Stephens 1938-2018 Welsh was the ‘language of the gravestone’ to Michael Stephens in the summers of his youth when he worked as a gravedigger in his native Treforest. In time Michael became Meic, and the language became ‘the language of my hearthstone’. He described himself... Read More

Yr Athro R. Geraint Gruffydd ob. 24 March 2015

17 November, 2015
It could be said that Geraint Gruffydd had more than one career; university professor, head of a national institution, director of a research centre, each one of which he accomplished to a high standard, but there is no doubt that his main delight was his work as a scholar and researcher.  Over the years he published ... Read More

Sioned Davies

1 January, 1970
Professor of Welsh and Head of the School of Welsh, Cardiff University Read More

Brynley Roberts

Formerly: Librarian, National Library of Wales; Professor and Head of the Department of Welsh, Swansea University Read More

Robert M. Jones

Formerly Professor and Head of the Department of Welsh Language and Literature, Aberystwyth University By far the most prolific writer of the Welsh language in his lifetime, Robert Maynard Jones was born into a working-class, English-speaking home in Cardiff in 1929. His grandfather, a Marxist, instilled in him a... Read More