This authoritative book traces the development of Plaid Cymrus political thought from its birth in 19245 to the establishment of the National Assembly for Wales in 1999. Through a penetrating study of the political beliefs of its most important leaders Saunders Lewis, Gwynfor Evans, Dafydd Elis-Thomas and Dafydd Wigley we follow the partys emergence from the political fringe to the threshold of a devolved Wales. The development of Plaid Cymrus constitutional and economic policies are examined in detail, as well as its attitude towards the Welsh language. A vibrant discussion on the nature of nationalism and nationalist ideas locates the partys intellectual development in a broader international context. This is a book that reveals Plaid Cymru in a new and sometimes controversial light.
Preface to the English Translation
Introduction
PART ONE NATIONALISM
Chapter One. Nationalism, National Movements and Wales
Understanding Nationalism
Nationalism, the old and the new hen
Nationalism, the self and violence
National Movements
The development of national movements
The ideology of national movements
Wales in the shadow of the firstborn
PART TWO NATIONALISTS
Chapter Two. A passionate love of a stable civilisation: The Saunders
Lewis era
Seizing the agenda
Principles of Nationalism
Historiography
Nonconformism
Laying the foundations
Holding on
One language or two?
Three acres and a Welsh-speaking cow
Dominion status
A flash in the pan
Chapter Three. A reconciliation with her fair past: The Gwynfor Evans
era
I was rejected...?
The inheritance: the core ideas of Saunders a Gwynfor
Fundamental policies: the inheritance and its evolution
The Welsh language
Economic policy
Constitutional objectives
Aros Mae
The End of Britishness
Chapter Four: More than Dal ati? The era of the two Dafydds
Turning Left: The End of the Third Way
Political philosophy
Strategy
Radical Wales
A Parliament and Europe - again
Wigley, Ceredigion and the paradox of the 1990s
Index
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