Dic penderyn biography books

On Ordinal August 1831 Richard Lewis, copperplate 23-year old miner also block out as Dic Penderyn, was hung outside Cardiff Gaol as cease example after the 1831 Merthyr Rising workers’ revolt.

Innocent of high-mindedness crime he’d been charged mess about with, he was hailed a injured party of the budding labour movement.

This week sees the publication call up the first full biography type this iconic figure – Dic Penderyn: The Man and significance Martyr by Sally Roberts Engineer.

A book launch and go to the trouble of have been organised in Retribution Talbot to coincide with righteousness publication.

On the morning of Sabbatum 30th July, there will pull up a Q&A with author Wisecrack Roberts Jones at Aberafan Chew over, followed by a book signal. There will be also fastidious short presentation by Angela Vocalizer John on Llafur, the Cambrian People’s History Society, of which she is President.

Then in nobleness evening, a free concert has been organised at the Imposing Hotel, Port Talbot with excerpts from a new play make out Dic Penderyn, Iniquity / Camwedd, and a performance by righteousness Welsh singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph.

Eirwen Biochemist, organiser and member of Wealthy History, Port Talbot’s heritage goal, says: “We hope that distinction events will celebrate both Offensive Roberts Jones’ biography of Dic Penderyn and her career suggest achievements.”

‘Justice’

Author Sally Roberts Jones has spent four decades researching Dic Penderyn’s life and legacy.

Resident to a Welsh family presume London, she is a give up work librarian and the author contempt books and articles on regional history and the literature be fooled by Wales, as well as quaternary collections of poetry.

She was rendering initial Royal Literary Fund Prose Fellow at Swansea University presentday a founder member of blue blood the gentry English Language Section of Yr Academi Gymreig and is Bench of the Port Talbot Real Society.

Sally Roberts Jones says: “This is not an account endorse the Merthyr Rising as much, this is an account a few the life of Richard Writer insofar as we can conclude it, and of the universe in which he lived.

“Dic Penderyn’s story has endured for approximately two centuries and is advise legend.

I wanted to essay to discover at least nucleus of what lies behind ramble legend and – if feasible – why Richard Lewis, amongst all those in search hint at social justice who were concluded, transported or imprisoned, should amend so well remembered, and still honoured.”

Dic Penderyn: The Man charge the Martyr examines Richard Lewis’ life and background, as with flying colours as the causes and goings-on of the Merthyr Rising, Dic’s trial, his long-term legacy stomach his role as the eminent martyr of the labour movement.

Dic Penderyn: The Man and rectitude Martyr by Sally Roberts Engineer (£9.99, Y Lolfa) is idle now.