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MEIC BIRTWISTLE wanders through an exhibition that captures the soul of the Valleys, past and present, as Archdruids rub shoulders with Cuban ambassadors in Pontypridd
The entrance to the Eisteddfod festival 2024
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THE beginning of the week at the National Eisteddfod saw the National Library of Wales celebrating the life of the late Labour politician Ann Clwyd. She won her constituency, Cwm Cynon, part of the “bro” or catchment area for this year’s festival, in the miners’ strike of 1984. Before her death, she had contributed 260 boxes of material to the library’s political archive.
A controversial figure in Welsh politics, her major feat was to be elected in Cwm Cynon, the first female MP to represent a south Wales industrial Valleys seat, and then only the fourth female MP in Welsh history.
And so it was totally fitting to see Wales’ first female first minister, Eluned Morgan, on the panel, and describing Clwyd as “a fighter and one who was willing to upset people if necessary for an issue she believed in.”
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MEIC BIRTWISTLE spoke to the First Minister as he took in this year's National Eisteddfod, a huge celebration of Welsh language, history, music, poetry and culture