1978 in Wales

none 1978 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1978 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1978 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Secretary of State for Wales – John MorrisPryde, E. B. Greenway, D. E. Porter, S. Roy, I. Handbook of British Chronology https://books.google.com/books?id=zcgxEvGAK_kC&pg=PA157 1996-02-23 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-56350-5 157 Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of BangorNA NA The Macmillan Guide to the United Kingdom 1978-79 https://books.google.com/books?id=Ot-vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA875 25 December 2015 Springer 978-1-349-81511-1 875 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales Bryn (outgoing)Meic Stephens The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic registration April 1986 Oxford University Press 220 978-0-19-211586-7 Geraint (Bowen) (incoming) Events March - Moss Evans is elected leader of the Transport and General Workers Union.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1381353/Moss-Evans.html Moss Evans 14 January 2002 The Telegraph 2 October 2024 March/April - Closure of the steelworks in Ebbw Vale and East Moors.Sander Meredeen Managing industrial conflict: seven major disputes https://books.google.com/books?id=OQFYAAAAYAAJ 1 August 1988 Hutchinson 978-0-09-173226-4 unknown dates 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.Mari C. Jones Language Obsolescence and Revitalization: Linguistic Change in Two Sociolinguistically Contrasting Welsh Communities https://books.google.com/books?id=w9u_GG41b_8C&pg=PA19 1998 Clarendon Press 978-0-19-823711-2 19 Arts and literature Richard Burton records the narrative for the concept album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. Operatic contralto Helen Watts is appointed a CBE. Gregynog Press is reincarnated as "Gwasg Gregynog".Printing History https://books.google.com/books?id=EGAgAQAAMAAJ 1987 American Printing History Association Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Cardiff) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - withheldhttps://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair?_ga=2.196744876.1631880097.1570104027-963760572.1570104027 Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 3 October 2019 13 October 2019 29 September 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190929131826/https://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Siôn EirianDavid Ben Rees Wales: The Cultural Heritage https://books.google.com/books?id=_2FnAAAAMAAJ 1981 G.W. & A. Hesketh 978-0-905777-16-0 54 National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Harri Williams New books English language Ruth Bidgood - The Print of MiracleMatthew Jarvis Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry: Writing Wales in English https://books.google.com/books?id=lo0fAQAAIAAJ 2008 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2152-2 60 Ken Follett - Eye of the Needle James Hanley - A Kingdom Robert Minhinnick - A Thread in the Maze John Tripp - Collected Poems Gwyn A. Williams - The Merthyr RisingDavid Howell British Workers and the Independent Labour Party, 1888-1906 https://books.google.com/books?id=VDC8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA446 1984 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-1791-9 446 Welsh language Marion Eames - I Hela CnauKatie Gramich Twentieth-century Women's Writing in Wales: Land, Gender, Belonging https://books.google.com/books?id=Qo0fAQAAIAAJ 2007 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2086-0 163 Gwyn Thomas - Croesi Traeth T. Arfon Williams - Englynion Arfon Music Dave Edmunds - Tracks on Wax 4 Geraint Jarman - Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau Film Kenneth Griffith appears with Richard Burton in The Wild Geese. Broadcasting Welsh-language television Shane becomes the first film to be dubbed into the Welsh language for television.The Economist https://books.google.com/books?id=L-7HAAAAIAAJ 1978 Economist Newspaper Limited 30 Bys a Bawd with Marged Esli. Pippi Hosanhir English-language television 17 March - BBC Wales comedy film Grand Slam stars Hugh Griffith and Windsor Davies.Steven Blandford Wales on Screen https://books.google.com/books?id=OLuRAAAAIAAJ 2000 Seren 978-1-85411-248-4 BBC Wales drama serial Hawkmoor, based on the life of Twm Siôn Cati, stars John Ogwen and Jane Asher.Lynn Hughes Twm Sion Cati's Men: the BBC TV Serial "Hawkmoor" Gomer Press 1983 Elaine Morgan's adaptation of Off to Philadelphia in the Morning, the novel by Jack Jones, stars David Lyn as Joseph Parry and Connie Booth as his wife, Jane. Meredith Edwards, Rachel Thomas and William Squire also appear.Glyn Jones John Rowlands Profiles: a visitors' guide to writing in twentieth century Wales Gomer Press 1980 371 English-language radio 13 November - BBC Radio Wales is launched,Aldridge, Meryl Understanding The Local Media https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd7sAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA135 1 April 2007 McGraw-Hill Education (UK) 978-0-335-22172-1 135 following the demise of the 'Radio 4 Wales' service (previously the Welsh Home Service). The first show is AM, presented by Anita Morgan. Sport BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Johnny OwenBBC Wales Sport Personality winners https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/20670643 BBC Sport 10 December 2012 2 August 2021 Boxing – Johnny Owen wins the Commonwealth bantamweight title. Darts – Leighton Rees wins the World Professional Darts Championship. Rugby union – Wales win their eighth Grand Slam. Snooker 29 April – Ray Reardon wins the World Championship for the sixth time.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/37495257 Welsh Open Snooker trophy named after legend Ray Reardon 28 September 2016 BBC Sport 16 May 2019 1 December – Doug Mountjoy wins the UK Snooker Championship in Preston.https://www.eurosport.com/snooker/profile-doug-mountjoy_sto2140935/story.shtml Profile: Doug Mountjoy 3 December 2009 Eurosport 16 May 2019 Births 21 January - Rachael Bland, née Hodges, broadcast journalist (died 2018)https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/07/rachael-bland-obituary Rachael Bland obituary The Guardian 7 September 2018 31 December 2018 1 February - David Hughes, footballer 12 February - Gethin Jones, television presenter 26 July - Eve Myles, actress 2 September - Matthew Watkins, rugby union player (died 2020)https://www.sporting-heroes.net/rugby/wales/matthew-watkins-3701/international-rugby-union-caps_a04593/ Matthew Watkins Sporting Heroes 13 October 2026 17 November - Tom Ellis, actor 25 December - Simon Jones, cricketer date unknown David Llewellyn, fiction writer Rachel Trezise, fiction writer Deaths 6 January - Ted Jones, trade union leader, 81Keith Gildart, "Jones, Edward ('Ted')", Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.XIV, pp.188–199 11 January - William John Edwards, Cerdd Dant singer, 79 17 February - Joseph Owen, cricketer, 69Joseph Owen at CricketArchive 20 February - Tom Jones, footballer, 88http://www.mufcinfo.com/manupag/a-z_player_archive/a-z_player_archive_pages/jones_thomas.html Thomas Jones mufcinfo.com 1 March 2020 23 February - Arwyn Davies, Baron Arwyn, politician, 80Who was who https://books.google.com/books?id=HT4OAQAAMAAJ 1971 A. & C. Black 28 9780312877460 24 February - David Williams, historian, 7863676 Williams, David 2 March - Frances Williams, composer,Charles Eugene Claghorn Women Composers and Songwriters: A Concise Biographical Dictionary https://archive.org/details/womencomposersso0000clag registration 1 January 1996 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-3130-8 236-7 6 March - David Price-White, lawyer and politician, 71https://biography.wales/article/s8-PRIC-PRI-1906 Price-White, David Archibald Price (1906-1978), Conservative politician John Graham Jones Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 3 March 2020 4 April - Sir Morien Morgan, aeronautics engineer, 65Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=RZ3GAAAAIAAJ 1978 Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute. 9 April - Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, 94Richard Haslam Clough Williams-Ellis Clough Williams-Ellis https://books.google.com/books?id=FCRQAAAAMAAJ 1996 Academy Editions 978-1-85490-430-0 13 April - William Rees-Thomas, psychiatrist, 90REES-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 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, 73Bassil A. Mardelli Middle East Perspectives: Personal Recollections (1947 - 1967) https://books.google.com/books?id=INl8jGsewjUC&pg=PA197 April 2010 iUniverse 978-1-4502-1116-1 197 2 July - Philip Scott Yorke, last Squire of Erddig, 73 21 August - Rhys Davies, 76, novelist and short story writerHuw Osborne Rhys Davies https://books.google.com/books?id=qHuvBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA131 1 July 2009 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2242-0 131 25 August - Tyssul Griffiths, rugby player, 59https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/tyssuls-welsh-outing-cut-short-1827090 Tyssul's Welsh outing is cut short with injury 22 March 2013 WalesOnline 13 October 2026 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, 82https://biography.wales/article/s10-WILL-GWY-1896 Williams, William Sidney Gwynn (1896-1978), musician and administrator Rhidian Griffiths Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 13 October 2019 23 November - Edward Jones, 82, cricketerhttps://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Articles/1/1132.html Brief profile of Edward Jones Hignell Dr. A.K. December 2003 23 September 2011 16 December - Harry Phillips, Wales international rugby player, 75 See also 1978 in Northern Ireland References Wales Wales