1988 in Wales

none 1988 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1988 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1988 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Secretary of State for Wales – Peter Walkerhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lord-walker-durable-leftofcentre-conservative-politician-who-served-in-government-under-heath-and-thatcher-2008689.html Lord Walker: Durable left-of-centre Conservative politician who served in government under Heath and Thatcher The Independent 23 June 2010 23 November 2015 Archbishop of Wales – George Noakes, Bishop of St David'shttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4374198.ece https://web.archive.org/web/20100523101347/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4374198.ece dead May 23, 2010 The Right Rev George Noakes: Archbishop of Wales, 1987-1991 22 July 2008 Times, The (London) 27 July 2008 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Emrys Deudraethhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17565600 Former Archdruid of Wales Emrys Roberts dies at 82 1 April 2012 30 March 2012 BBC News Events 14 February - Lynette White is murdered in her Cardiff flat. The case remains controversial for over 20 years, with Jeffrey Gafoor eventually being convicted in 2003.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15983755 Lynette White murder: Timeline of events 14 June 2016 BBC News 26 February 2019 26 March - The Welsh Ornithological Society is founded at Aberystwyth.Everett Mike Robin Prytherch 1988 News and comment British Birds 81 7 344–347 October - County Hall, Cardiff, officially opened as the headquarters of South Glamorgan County Council beside the disused Bute East Dock in the Atlantic Wharf area of Butetown, Cardiff. 4 November - British Rail operates the last steam locomotives in its ownership (and its last narrow gauge trains) on the Vale of Rheidol Railway in regular service prior to its privatisation next year (Santa Specials run on 18 December). date unknown - The complete Bible translation into Welsh that has been in use since 1620 is replaced with a new version, Y Beibl Cymraeg Newydd (BCN), translated directly from the original languages.The Late F L Cross Frank Leslie Cross Elizabeth A Livingstone The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church https://books.google.com/books?id=fUqcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1738 2005 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-280290-3 1738 Arts and literature January - BAFTA Cymru is founded.http://www.bafta.org/wales/about About BAFTA Cymru BAFTA Cymru 22 November 2018 28–31 May - First Hay Festival of literature held in Hay-on-Wye. The Gregynog festival is re-launched by Anthony Rolfe Johnson.George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood Opera https://books.google.com/books?id=xp4WqrCEOkEC 2010 Rolls House Publishing Company The European Centre for Traditional and Regional Cultures opens in Llangollen.Dallen J. Timothy Managing Heritage and Cultural Tourism Resources: Critical Essays, Volume One https://books.google.com/books?id=iWZBDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT403 2 March 2017 Taylor & Francis 978-1-351-92053-7 403 Independent record label Ankst is formed at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth by Alun Llwyd, Gruffudd Jones and Emyr Glyn Williams.Adams Owen Label of love: Ankst The Guardian 2010-05-06 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/may/05/label-ankst 2010-05-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20100509052538/http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/05/label-ankst 9 May 2010 live London This year also sees the foundation of: Ffilm Cymru (Film Foundation for Wales) New Welsh Review Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Newport) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Elwyn Edwards, "Storm"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 17 November 2019 23 November 2019 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - T. James Jones, "Ffin"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners Winners of the Crown National Eisteddfod of Wales 17 November 2019 23 November 2019 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194429/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheldhttps://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-prose-medal Winners of the Prose Medal National Eisteddfod of Wales 7 November 2019 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194428/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-prose-medal dead New books English language Tony Conran - Blodeuwedd Hilary Llywelyn-Williams - The Tree Calendar Sheenagh Pugh - Beware Falling TortoisesEuropa Publications International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 https://books.google.com/books?id=mAY2Ja6t6eAC&pg=PA1279 2 August 2004 Routledge 978-1-135-35519-7 1279 Oliver Reynolds - The Player Queen's Wife Bernice Rubens - Our FatherBernice Rubens Our Father https://books.google.com/books?id=HEc9PgAACAAJ 1988 Abacus 978-0-349-12904-4 Glanmor Williams - Recovery, Reorientation and Reformation Welsh language Idris Foster, Rachel Bromwich & D. Simon Evans (eds.), Culhwch ac Olwenhttps://biography.wales/article/s6-FOST-LLE-1911 Foster, Idris, Llewelyn (1911-1984), Welsh and Celtic Scholar Robert Geraint Gruffydd Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 24 November 2019 Bobi Jones - Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg 1902-36 Rhiannon Davies Jones - Cribau Eryri Manon Rhys - Cwtsho Wiliam Owen Roberts - Y Pla Huw Walters - Canu'r Pwll a'r Pulpud Music Ffa Coffi Pawb - Dalec Peilon Trebor Edwards - Goreuon Trebor Bonnie Tyler - Hide Your Heart Film Peter Greenaway directs Drowning by Numbers. Welsh-language films Stormydd Awst Broadcasting Welsh-language television Pobol y Cwm becomes the first European soap opera to be broadcast daily. C'mon Midffild (drama) English-language television The Divided Kingdom (HTV/Channel 4)Horace Newcomb Encyclopedia of Television https://books.google.com/books?id=NUXIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA2550 3 February 2014 Routledge 978-1-135-19472-7 2550 Sport Association football April – Newport County A.F.C., one of four Welsh teams in the English Football League, are relegated to the GM Vauxhall Conference.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2288872/Theres-still-some-steel-in-Newport-County.html London The Daily Telegraph Ricky George There's still some steel in Newport County 2008-01-14 Athletics Steve Jones becomes the first British competitor to win the New York Marathon. BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Colin JacksonBBC Wales Sport Personality winners https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/20670643 BBC Sport 2 August 2021 Rugby union Wales top the 1988 Five Nations Championship winning the Triple Crown. 18 May to 11 June – Wales tour New Zealand, losing heavily in both Tests to the All Blacks. Snooker 2 May – Terry Griffiths is defeated in the final of the 1988 World Snooker Championship by Steve Davis. 27 November – Doug Mountjoy defeats Stephen Hendry in the final of the UK Snooker Championship to claim his second UK title.https://www.eurosport.com/snooker/profile-doug-mountjoy_sto2140935/story.shtml Profile: Doug Mountjoy 3 December 2009 Eurosport 16 May 2019 Births 29 January - Catrin Stewart, actress 14 February - Jamie Jones, snooker playerhttps://wpbsa.com/player/jamie-jones/ WPBSA Jamie Jones 18 April 2022 18 February - Mark Davies, footballer 29 February - Hannah Mills, sports sailor 24 March - Curtis McDonald, footballer 11 April - Nathan Stephens, athlete and Paralympian 20 June - Shefali Chowdhury, actress 24 August - Kelly Lee Owens, electronic musician 5 October - Sam Warburton, rugby playerhttp://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/player/94300.html Sam Warburton ESPN 25 February 2019 15 November - Dan Evans, rugby playerhttp://en.espn.co.uk/wales/rugby/player/93045.html Dan Evans ESPN 25 February 2019 13 December - Darcy Blake, footballer 22 December - Leigh Halfpenny, rugby playerhttp://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/player/27644.html Leigh Halfpenny ESPN 25 February 2019 28 December Ched Evans, footballer Elfyn Evans, rally driver 31 December - Holly Holyoake, singer Deaths January - George Ewart Evans, folklorist and oral historian, 78 26 January - Raymond Williams, writer, 66Alan O'Connor Raymond Williams https://books.google.com/books?id=b3EoxpJYw0IC&pg=PR7 2006 Rowman & Littlefield 978-0-7425-3550-3 7 2 April - Euros Bowen, poet, 83New England review and bread loaf quarterly https://books.google.com/books?id=d6FRAQAAIAAJ 1987 April - T. Glynne Davies, poet, novelist and broadcaster, 62BBC Worldwide British Broadcasting Corporation Annual Report and Accounts https://books.google.com/books?id=PHmQAE2QvkcC 1 December 1998 BBC Worldwide 978-0-563-22675-8 13 May - Elfed Evans, footballer, 61 18 May - Brandon Rhys-Williams, politician, 60https://biography.wales/article/s6-RHYS-MER-1927 Rhys-Williams, Brandon Meredith (1927-1988), Conservative politician John Graham Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 24 November 2019 15 June - David Blackmore, cricketer, 88 8 September - Mel Rosser, dual-code international rugby player, 87 23 September - Arwel Hughes, composer and conductor, 79https://biography.wales/article/s10-HUGH-ARW-1909 HUGHES, ARWEL (1909-1988), musician Rhidian Griffiths Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 24 November 2018 12 October - Ruth Manning-Sanders, poet and children's author, 102 16 October - John Gwilym Jones, dramatist, 84William Robert Lewis John Gwilym Jones https://books.google.com/books?id=0JViAAAAMAAJ 1994 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1251-3 1 11 November - William Ifor Jones, conductor and organist, 88 1 December - Alun Oldfield-Davies, controller of BBC Wales, 83101151 Alun Bennett Oldfield-Davies Geraint Talfan Davies 2011 13 December - Brynmor John, politician, 54https://biography.wales/article/s6-JOHN-THO-1934 JOHN, BRYNMOR THOMAS (1934-1988), Labour politician John Graham Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 24 November 2018 25 December - W. F. Grimes, archaeologist, 83David Gill, 'Grimes, William Francis (1905–1988)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 3 May 2013 27 December - Tecwyn Roberts, aerospace engineer, 63Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried The Birth of NASA: The Work of the Space Task Group, America's First True Space Pioneers https://books.google.com/books?id=D6XWCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA280 23 March 2016 Springer 978-3-319-28428-6 280 date unknown John Morgan, journalist Ray Price, rugby player, 64 (brain haemorrhage)https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/2241652.Ray_Price_joins_Warrington_Hall_of_Fame/ Ray Price joins Warrington Hall of Fame 4 May 2008 Warrington Guardian 26 February 2019 References Wales Category:1980s in Wales Category:1988 in Europe