Tuesday, 21 August 2012

HOME TRUTHS WELSH REPUBLICANISM WAS STUFFED A LONG WAY BACK AND THAT IS WHY IT NEVER CAME TO MUCH AND SADLY NEVER WILL AS A NATIONALIST ENDEAVOR.


So, when and how was it stuffed, I guess somewhere in the period of the English Civil War and Hanoverian Succession, there after the Napoleonic wars put 'Welsh Republicanism' in the grave. Get a load of this:

... and the end of the Napoleonic wars. A selection of these ballads will be
published shortly, under the title Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution 1793-
1815.
www.wales.ac.uk/en/CentreforAdvancedWelshCelticStudies/StaffPages/FfionMairJones.aspx - 34k -Similar pages
... focusing on the Welsh-language ballads produced between the early years of
the Revolution and the end of the Napoleonic wars. A selection of these ballads ...
frenchrevolution.wales.ac.uk/en/project-team-ffion.php - 8k - Similar pages

The Welsh bought up by the Reformation and it's economic benefits, then full on post English Civil War Protestantism and it's economic benefits were no less keen on benefits if fighting for a Great British Empire with the British Army and still a tradition close to the heart not least in a very 'Cymraeg' RWF.

The Royal Welch Fusiliers at War, 1793-1815 ... Dragon Rampant will appeal to
those interested in the Napoleonic period, musket period ..... Each chapter is
prefaced by the lyrics of contemporary soldier songs which is a lovely addition
with ...
www.ensigngroup.ca/Dragon-Rampant.htm - 31k - Similar pages

Sadly Iolo's Republicanism and potential of a Radical Gorsedd as a possible 'Invisible' Republican Government was to be overwhelmingly  undone by the rise of Non - Conformity and thence a later Romantic Cultural Nationalism which still lingers on in Plaid Cymru and Cymdeithas yr Iaith Cymraeg. What of Cliff Bere's WRM I and later WRM II of Gareth ap Sion and Neil al Siencyn or the later WSRM of Robat ap Gruffydd and Tim Richards. Not bad attempts at building on the Republicanism of Iolo and other Welsh Dissidents but as for leaving a legacy, if that is in the beliefs of Mike Jenkins to be a poetic one coupled with Cardfiff Bay Republican 'Day Dreaming' then unfortunatly Welsh Republicanism as a long way to go unless one considers CYMRU SOFREN as a worthwhile alternative:

Croeso i Cymru Sofren «1 Mar 2012 ... Please print out the declaration,manifesto and constitution and pass it on. Printiwch a lledaenwch We are Sovereign Cymru am byth.sovereignwales.com/2012/03/01/croeso-i-sofrencymru/ - 42k - Similar pages 

Wrth lansio maniffesto'r blaid ddoe, fe gyhoeddodd Cymru Sofren fod yr amser
am “esgusodion a beio eraill wedi pasio” a'i bod hi nawr yn bryd gweithredu.
www.golwg360.com/newyddion/cymru/66826-plaid-newydd-i-gymru - 25k - Similar pages

To which I lend my passive support:


Though My Loyalty pro - actively is with the Great Unrest 2012 Group and long term working towards a Wales Socialist Republican Workers Party.



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