A chara, – Mark Paul, reporting from Merthyr Tydfil on the 10th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s death, mentions Y Dic Penderyn pub in the town (“Ten years after her death, Margaret Thatcher’s legacy in Wales is more nuanced than many imagine”, UK News, April 8th).
He states that Dic Penderyn was a miner and that the pub was named after him. Lest any readers be under the illusion that he was involved in the 1984 miners’ strike in South Wales, Penderyn was involved in the Merthyr Uprising of 1831. His real name was Richard Lewis and he was hanged in Cardiff on August 13th, 1831, for playing a leading part, though most local people believed him to be innocent.
Many folk songs and poems have been written about him and today he is revered as a martyr by many Welsh nationalists. – Is mise le meas,
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