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Googling "Welsh Republicanism"

This list follows yesterday's posted here on Welsh Nationalism links. I attempt to sort out promising material for the curious.

Welsh Republican Manifesto 1950:
http://www.llgc.org.uk/ymgyrchu/Pleidleisio/lleiafrifol/WRM/PLLLWR05-eTEXT.htm

Welsh Republican Comment. Reminiscent of much of what appeared on the Net a decade ago for Irish counterparts. Overlaps with other hits. A bit rough, as many such projects, but speaks for a particular brand of grassroots militancy that such patriotic movements depend on, now as for centuries.
http://groups.msn.com/WelshRepublicanComment

Cymru Rhydd/ Free Wales: In the same mode as above-- updated last in 2005: http://sianioan.tripod.com/galw.index.html

Ditto if more current: Balchder Cymru/ Pride of Wales: http://www.geocities.com/pow7256/page_1.html

Welsh "Socialist Republican": Much terser than WRC entry. Anti-monarchy.
http://www.iforbach.demon.co.uk/no_more_fairy_tales2.htm

Resurgence Cymru/ Cymru Fydd: "Meme warfare for Welsh Liberation." http://www.resurgencecymru.org/

John Barnard Jenkins, of MAC, Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru: 21 May 2006 post by Anthony Brockway at "Babylon Wales": http://babylonwales.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_archive.html

Cliff Bere's obituary in the Guardian, 1997, by Meic Stephens. A polemicist in the positive sense, active in the 1950s and 60s:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970922/ai_n14130862

Dennis Coslett's obituary, 2004, by Meic Stephens. Commander of Free Wales Army. A eye-patched heir to the vision of Pádraig Pearse? http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article38516.ece

Harri Webb's obituary, 1996, by Meic Stephens, a one-time housemate. Poet and activist. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19960103/ai_n9632663

Julian Cayo-Evans-- tribute to FWA activist and, admittedly, a great raconteur: http://web.onetel.net.uk/~orangeberry/

BBC clip of 1968 FWA march:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/walesonair/database/march.shtml

The Red Dragon Hood: Cool Cymru t-shirts, including "Daffodil Soldier." Memoir of a 12-year-old's learning in 1969 about the FWA. (I, as a child even younger far away, recall my delight at reading about the protests against the Investiture in National Geographic!)
http://www.thereddragonhood.com/pages/1969.html

Welsh Republican Army/ Byddin Weriniaethol Gymreig:
http://www.freewebs.com/srs8ctd/index.htm

Cymuned: Local activism to keep housing affordable, jobs local, and a sustainable Welsh-speaking community. "The price of a pint a month CAN change the world!"
http://cymuned.net/blogsaesneg/

Britannia.com (a good source for Welsh history & culture) has a helpful essay on Welsh poets of the later 20c who often championed republican and national themes:
http://britannia.com/wales/lit/lit18.html

Y Lolfa: Began as printers for the Welsh Language Movement/ Cymdeithas Yr Iaeth in the 60s, now (along with Gwasg Gomer) the leading indie publisher in both languages.
http://www.ylolfa.com/

Click here for a particularly appropriate title by Harri Webb:
http://www.ylolfa.com/dangos.php?ISBN=0862435137

Image: "Rhyfel y Sais Bach": uprising against the Land Enclosures 1819-26. Celts have long memories. See Eirian Jones' account of "The War of the Little Englishman": http://www.ylolfa.com/dangos.php?ISBN=9781847710000

Image courtesy of one of Gethin 'ap Iesytn' Gruffydd's many spirited blogs, full of archival lore, past and present, testifying to a long commitment, during his life and his ancestors, for the cause.
http://redremembrancer.blogspot.com/