Saunders Lewis was a Welsh politician, poet, dramatist, Medievalist, and literary critic. Born into a Welsh-speaking ministerial family in Greater Liverpool, Lewis studied in a public school growing up. He rediscovered the importance of both his heritage language and cultural roots while serving as a junior officer in the British Army during the trenches of the First World War. As a vocal supporter of Welsh nationalism, Lewis believed, however, that heritage language revival, cultural nationalism and the decolonisation of Welsh-language literature, the dramatic arts, and culture needed to precede Welsh devolution or political independence. Otherwise, as Lewis predicted in 1918, "the Welsh Parliament would [only] be an enlarged County Council."
Saunders Lewis as an army officer in 1916
A plaque was inaugurated to mark the 75th anniversary of Plaid Cymru's founding meeting in 2000, on the building where the meeting took place in Pwllheli.
Llosgi'r Ysgol Fomio: "The Burning of the Bombing School"
Plaid Cymru is a centre-left to left-wing, Welsh nationalist political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from the United Kingdom.
Plaque commemorating the founding of Plaid Cymru, Pwllheli
A Plaid Cymru rally in Machynlleth in 1949
1959 election in Merioneth. Gwynfor Evans, standing, is talking at Bryncrug
BBC debate between Iorwerth Thomas (Rhondda MP - Labour) and Gwynfor Evans, Plaid Cymru's first MP