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Dic Penderyn

£9.99

Biography of Dic Penderyn, hanged for stabbing a soldier after the 1831 Merthyr Rising – a crime later confessed to by someone else – and held as a Welsh Martyr. The book examines his life and background as far as we can now know it, his long-term legacy and role as the first labour martyr.

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Bywgraffiad Dic Penderyn (Richard Lewis, 1808-31), a grogwyd ar gam am drywanu milwr yn ystod Gwrthryfel Merthyr yn 1831 – trosedd y cyfaddefodd gŵr arall iddi yn ddiweddarach – ac a gofir fel Merthyr Cymreig. Mae’r gyfrol yn archwilio ei fywyd a’i gefndir, hyd y medrwn wneud hynny, ei waddol yn y tymor hir a’i rôl fel y merthyr llafur cyntaf.
Biography of Dic Penderyn, hanged for stabbing a soldier after the 1831 Merthyr Rising – a crime later confessed to by someone else – and held as a Welsh Martyr. The book examines his life and background as far as we can now know it, his long-term legacy and role as the first labour martyr.

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Language

English