1991 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1991 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents[edit]
- Secretary of State for Wales – David Hunt[1]
- Archbishop of Wales
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Ap Llysor[4]
Events[edit]
- 6 January - A Maltese tanker, the Kimya, capsizes off the Anglesey coast. Ten crew members are drowned, and the ship's cargo of sunflower oil causes marine pollution.[5]
- January - Two Welsh soldiers are among those killed in the first Gulf War.
- 4 April - Peter Hain is elected as MP for Neath in a by-election caused by the death of the sitting MP, Donald Coleman.[6]
- 16 May - Huw Edwards is elected as MP for Monmouth in a by-election caused by the death of the sitting MP, Sir John Stradling Thomas.
- 23 May - A memorial to Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd is dedicated at Kidwelly Castle.[7]
- 19 July - Dean Saunders, 27-year-old Welsh international striker, becomes the most expensive player to be signed by a British club when a £2.9million fee takes him from Derby County to Liverpool, who have broken the record fee in British football for the third time in four years.[8]
- 31 August–3 September - Cardiff Ely Bread Riots: A dispute between two shopkeepers escalates into four consecutive nights of rioting in the Ely district of Cardiff.[9]
- 16 October - Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs, who turns 18 at the end of the following month, becomes the youngest full international for the Welsh national team against Germany in Nuremberg.[10]
- 21 October - Welshman Eric Jones is one of a team of four who make the first hot-air balloon flight over Mount Everest.[11]
- 25 October - Official opening of Conwy Crossing (immersed tube tunnel) to road traffic as part of A55 Conwy Bypass.
- 8 November - Penallta Colliery closes.[12]
- date unknown - The Welsh Office proposes an M4 relief road between Magor and Castleton.[13]
Arts and literature[edit]
- August - Simultaneous translation facilities are made available for the first time at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
- 1 September - Cantorion Colin Jones is founded in Wrexham.
- The first Pacific Northwest Welsh Weekend is held at Seattle.
- Wyn Calvin becomes the first Welshman to be elected King Rat of the Order of Water Rats.
Awards[edit]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Mold, with record attendance of 164,100)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Robin Llwyd ab Owain, "Merch Ein Amserau" (The Girl of Our Times)[14]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Einir Jones, "Pelydrau"[15]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Angharad Tomos, Si Hei Lwli[16]
- Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen - withheld[17]
New books[edit]
English language[edit]
- A Cardiff Anthology[18]
- Phil Rickman - Candlenight[19]
Welsh language[edit]
- Robat Arwyn & Robin Llwyd ab Owain - Gwin Beaujolais[20]
- Pennar Davies - Gwas y Gwaredwr[21]
- Glyn Tegai Hughes - Daniel Owen a Natur y Nofel[22]
- Saunders Lewis - Williams Pantycelyn (new ed.)[23]
- Prys Morgan - Brad y Llyfrau Gleision[24]
Music[edit]
- Datblygu - Blwch Tymer Tymor[25]
- Y Cyrff - Llawenydd Heb Ddiwedd (album)[26]
- Bonnie Tyler - Bitterblue (album)[27]
Film[edit]
Welsh-language films[edit]
- Elenya
- Un Nos Ola Leuad
Broadcasting[edit]
English-language television[edit]
- Joshua Jones (children's programme made by S4C)
- Catherine Zeta-Jones makes her first appearance in The Darling Buds of May.
Welsh-language television[edit]
Sport[edit]
- BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Ian Woosnam[28]
- Football
- 5 June - Wales defeat Germany in the UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying tournament.
- Golf - Ian Woosnam wins the US Masters at Augusta, Georgia, becoming the first Welshman to win a major tournament.
- Rugby union - Neil Jenkins plays his first rugby match for Wales, at the age of 19.
Births[edit]
- 21 January - Craig Roberts, actor
- 28 January - Ffion Bowen, rugby union winger
- 3 February - Adrian Quaife-Hobbs, racing driver
- 4 February - Fred Evans, boxer
- 28 March - David Cornell, footballer
- 12 April - Ashley Jazz Richards, footballer[29]
- 24 May - Aled Davies, paralympian field athlete (throwing events)
- 5 July - Michael White, snooker player
- 10 August - Amy Dowden, dancer[30]
- 23 August - Laura O'Sullivan, footballer (goalkeeper)
- 3 October - Jenny McLoughlin, athlete
- 20 October - Nathaniel Jarvis, footballer
- 29 November - Becky James, track racing cyclist
Deaths[edit]
- 14 January - Donald Coleman, politician, 65[31]
- 30 January - Rhys Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Kilgerran, politician, 83
- 10 February - Rowe Harding, rugby player, 89
- 19 February - Tom Rees, Wales international rugby player, 77
- 18 March - Robert Roland Hughes, neurologist, 79/80[32]
- 24 March - Maudie Edwards, actress and singer, 84[33]
- 29 March - John Stradling Thomas, politician, 65[34]
- July - Evan Roberts, conservationist
- 12 August - Edward George Bowen, CBE, physicist, 80[35]
- 23 August - Innes Lloyd, TV producer, 66
- 26 August - John Petts, artist, 77[36]
- 31 August - Idwal Rees, Wales rugby union captain, 81
- October - Seymour Morris, footballer, 78
- 13 October - Donald Houston, actor, 67[37]
- 5 November - Gwenlyn Parry, dramatist, 59[38]
- 15 December - Ray Smith, actor, 55
- 22 December - Jim Lang, Wales rugby union player, 82
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- ^ Kevin Toolis (10 February 2001). "Hain's world". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ^ "Gwenllian" (PDF). Cadw. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
- ^ "Dean Saunders". Soccerbase. Racing Post. Archived from the original on 2007-10-01. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
- ^ Peter Cruchley-Jones (2001). Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land?: A Missiological Interpretation of the Ely Pastorate Churches, Cardiff. P. Lang. p. 75. ISBN 978-3-631-37196-1.
- ^ "Giggs ends international career". BBC. 2007-05-30. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
- ^ Medd Guinness (October 1992). Guin: Book of Records '93. Guinness World Records Limited. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-85112-978-5.
- ^ D. S. M. Barrie (1994). South Wales. David St. John Thomas, an imprint of Thomas & Lochar. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-946537-69-3.
- ^ "M4 Relief Road: Timeline". South Wales Argus. 2009-07-16. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
- ^ "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
- ^ "Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
- ^ "Winners of the Prose Medal". National Eisteddfod of Wales. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ "Enillwyr Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen". BBC Cymru (in Welsh). Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.
- ^ Phil Rickman (29 October 2011). Candlenight. Atlantic Books. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-85789-688-9.
- ^ Robat Arwyn; Robin Llwyd Ab Owain (15 August 2010). Gwin Beaujolais. Y Lolfa. ISBN 978-0-86243-249-2.
- ^ M. Wynn Thomas (1999). Corresponding Cultures: The Two Literatures of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-7083-1531-6.
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- ^ Geraint Evans; Helen Fulton (18 April 2019). The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 332. ISBN 978-1-107-10676-5.
- ^ "The Blue Books of 1847". National Library of Wales. Archived from the original on 8 August 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
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- ^ Sarah Hill (5 July 2017). 'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music. Taylor & Francis. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-351-57345-0.
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- ^ John Graham Jones. "Coleman, Donald Richard (1925—1991), Labour politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
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- ^ Deborah Andrews (1992). Annual Obituary, 1991. St. James Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-1-55862-175-6.
- ^ Roger Owen (15 September 2013). Gwenlyn Parry. University of Wales Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-78316-577-3.