At Last Welsh
History Receiving Pride of Place.
As welcome is the
Cadw, Conwy and Gwynedd Initiative at long last, I mean it is some 50 years
since the Patriotic Front embarked on an activist Cymric Consciouness Campaign
with launch of Rali Cilmeri to promote such history. As many years back too
that this work was continued by Cofiwn not least in the need for radical action
against CADW’s Festival of Castles designed and promoted to celebrate the
conquest of Wales
In is also welcome
to see Gwynedd Council supporting a project that will counter that most biased
perversion of our History and it’s conquest, not least their native
Principality and almost a 1000 years
history of it’s native princes which only receives but one display panel out of
many more given over to the English Princes of Wales that has been placed in
Caernarfon Castle since 1969. How many tourists since then have seen this
distortion of our history and come out of it thinking all the Welsh must have
welcomed their conquest and colonisation. Of course a view much celebrated by
‘Cambro – Brit’ Native Traitors since 1485 right up to the two Investiture
ceremonies 1911 and 1969 and no doubt another one not to distant perhaps? But
still the Initiative aforementioned may at least make a welcome impression on
Tourists even if the Welsh still do not get it?
Whist wishing the
recent ‘Princes of Wales’ initiative, on the whole about the ‘Princes of
Gwynedd’, I hope we shall see CADW and other Welsh Councils doing as much
regards the ‘Princes of Powys’, Deheubarth and Glywysing (Morgannwg and Gwent).
Whatever, I do wish the aforementioned Initiative much success and call upon
Patriots to actively support in any number of positive ways as a now practical
and positive means by which to advance Cymric Consciousness. In passing may I
suggest that furthering and promoting this ‘Princes of Gwynedd/Wales’
initiative perhaps a logo best used would be that reminds one and all of the
regality of these Princes, that being Y Croes Naid this being but one of the
stolen Royal Treasures which included the Royal Coronet, Seals and Plate etc.
How the English Conquistador Edward I came into final possession of these Royal
Treasures is not an edifying story but one of hideous treachery and betrayal
which no poetic lament can hide. An awful story that I hope is not set aside
into the Shadows of Welsh History for there is light, as that shown by Goronwy
ap Heilin and sons who stood and died in defence of Dafydd ap Gruffydd and
family on 22 May 1283.
Mind you there is
much darker tale of the downfall of Gwynedd in the number of it’s native Chiefs
and Priests who were all too quick to sell a 1000 years of native regal royalty
down the drain. I have their names and details of their crimes which I will
conclude with in due course in a re look at 1282 as less a tale of tragedy but
more one of a great treachery 1283 – 84.
