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CYNNWYS // CONTENTS RHAGAIR . 4 LEANNE WOOD PREFACE . 6 LEANNE WOOD A BEACON IN A TROUBLED WORLD . 8 MIKE PARKER I FY NHAD . .11 CARWYN EVANS ARWAIN Y FFORDD MEWN BYD CYTHRYBLUS . 12 MIKE PARKER DOWN THE LONG ROAD . 16 MIKE JENKINS AWYREN GWALLGO GWYRDD . 17 SWCI DELIC ANNIBYNIAETH . 18 MANON STEFFAN ROS “MAE ‘NA RYWBETH AR GERDDED…” . 20 Cyfweliad gydag EDDIE LADD DAWNS YSBRYDION . 24 EDDIE LADD “THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME KIND OF AWAKENING…” . 25 An interview with EDDIE LADD DOSBARTH CYFANSODDI DDOE A HEDDIW . 29 MENNA ELFYN RECONQUISTA . 32 IWAN BALA INDEPENDENCE . 33 ALYS CONRAN GOLYGFA 6: CAEREDIN 14.ii.15 . 34 ELIS DAFYDD YMLAEN I RYDDID, PENYBERTH 1997 . 35 MARIAN DELYTH DAW DYDD BYDD MAWR Y RHAI BYCHAIN . 36 JON GOWER Y TRI . 40 IFOR DAVIES ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS . 41 JON GOWER CWIFFDDYN! . 45 EURIG SALISBURY SIWPER CÊT AC AMBELL FÊT . 47 RHYS ANEURIN INDEPENDENCE DAY . 48 JOHN BARNIE LEAVING THE RELATIONSHIP . 49 JASMINE DONAHAYE CLUSTNODAU . 54 RUTH JÊN GADAEL Y BERTHYNAS . 55 JASMINE DONAHAYE BYWGRAFFIADAU // BIOGRAPHIES . 60 Hawlfraint y testun / lluniau yn perthyn i’r awdur / arlunydd. Copyright of text / photos are those of the author / artist. RHAGAIR LEANNE WOOD n dilyn y bleidlais i adael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd, rydym yn Y byw mewn cyfnod o ansicrwydd. Ymddengys fod y bleidlais wedi gadael y Deyrnas Gyfunol ar chwâl. Mae heriau cymdeithasol, economaidd a diwylliannol yn codi’n sgil hyn. Ond bydd yna hefyd gyfleoedd i ni fel cenedl. Mae trin a thrafod o’r newydd am ddyfodol y Deyrnas Gyfunol, sy’n cyflwyno cyfle i ni roi’r achos dros ein cenedl ar yr agenda – yn genedlaethol a rhyngwladol. Rhaid i ni fod yn barod i ystyried pob trywydd sy’n caniatáu i’n gwlad sicrhau dyfodol cenedlaethol, yn hytrach na dyfodol diddim fel atodiad anghofiedig i Loegr. Dylai’r ffaith fod nifer fawr o bobl Cymru eisiau i fwy o benderfyniadau gael eu gwneud fan hyn – yn hytrach na mewn gwlad arall – roi hyder i ni. Gallwn adeiladu cenedl newydd a chymdeithas yn seiliedig ar yr un gwerthoedd y buom yn brwydro drostynt yn ystod y refferendwm. Mae’r gwerthoedd hynny – gwerthoedd Ewropeaidd – yn ganolog i’n mudiad cenedlaethol a byddant yn goroesi’n hirach nag unrhyw strwythur neu undeb wleidyddol. Dylai gwlad fel Cymru allu troi at ei hartistiaid, ei hawduron a’i beirdd, i’n hysbrydoli a’n hysgogi i weithredu. Bydd y cyfnod nesaf i Gymru’n mynnu ein bod mor greadigol a dyfeisgar ag erioed o’r blaen – rhaid i ni nawr fod yn barod i ddychmygu dyfodol gwell i Gymru. 4. Mae cymaint o’n celf a’n diwylliant wedi ei wreiddio mewn dathlu cenedl hynafol ac adfer traddodiadau ddoe i’w gwneud yn berthnasol i heddiw. Mae angen y dyfeisgarwch hwnnw’n fwy nag erioed. Ond rhaid i ni hefyd edrych i’r dyfodol. Mae ein hartistiaid yn parhau i wneud cyfraniad hanfodol i’r mudiad cenedlaethol ac rwy’n eithriadol o ddiolchgar iddynt am hynny. Hanfod y gorffennol oedd sefydlu y gall Cymru fod yn genedl yn ei iawn ryw. Hanfod y dyfodol fydd gwireddu hynny. 5. PREFACE LEANNE WOOD ollowing the vote to leave the European Union, we find F ourselves living in uncertain times. Though the vote may have fractured the United Kingdom. There are social, economic and cultural challenges resulting from this. But there will also be opportunities for us as a nation. The renewed discussion and debate over the future of the UK presents Plaid Cymru with an opportunity to put our country’s cause on the agenda both nationally and internationally. We need to be prepared to consider every option which allows our country to have a national future, rather than the dead-end destination of becoming a forgotten appendix to England. We can have some confidence that large numbers of Welsh people want more decisions to be made here, rather than more decisions about our country to be made in another country. We can build a new country and a society based on those same values that we fought for in the referendum campaign. Those values- European values- are central to our national movement and will outlast any political union or structure. A country like Wales should be able to turn to its artists, its writers and its poets, to help inspire and energise us into action. The next phase for Wales will require us to be as creative and innovative as we have ever been before, we must now be prepared to imagine a better future for Wales. So much of our art and culture is about celebrating an ancient nation and about reviving past traditions to make them relevant to the modern age. We need that ingenuity more than ever. But we must also think about our future. 6. I welcome the contribution that our artists continue to make to the national movement. The past was about establishing that Wales could be a nation in its own right. The future will be about making that a reality. 7. A BEACON IN A TROUBLED WORLD MIKE PARKER n 2016, what does national independence mean? Is there I any country on Earth that is truly independent? The Stalinist enclave of North Korea probably comes closest, but even that hunkered-down regime is highly inter-dependent on its near neighbours and small cluster of allies. Globalism, technology, migration and climate change are all dissolving traditional borders. Is there any point then in resurrecting old ones? Well yes, there can be. Nation-states remain the principal building block of the world’s administration, and that does not look like changing any time soon. It is crucial therefore that we organise ourselves in the best possible form of nation-state, one that not only takes into account natural or historic identities and borders, but also one that is established on the finest possible principles. My urge to see Welsh independence stems from both of these points. As someone who grew up not far on the other side of the English-Welsh frontier, I was aware from the earliest times that Wales was different. Cross the border and you could see it, feel it, smell it, hear it. There has been a line demarcating the two countries for the best part of two thousand years, and despite the centuries of mostly amicable toing and froing between us, that line is still scored deeply, as much a part of the physical and cultural landscape as the trees and fields. It cannot be wished away – and neither should we want it to be. As for the principles, I want to see Wales decide for itself what kind of country it is, how it wishes to organise and how to 8. play its part, economically and politically, in the wider world. It is the kind of conversation that is desperately needed right now, as old orders crumble and extremism threatens to fill the ensuing vacuums. When change is chaotic and badly managed, it is inevitably the most gruesome bruisers that end up running the show. It does not have to be like that. The world needs beacon nations to act as catalysts for positive change. Wales could, and should, be just such a beacon. This is why so many of us found the Scottish referendum campaign such an inspiration. Night after night, for two years, community centres, church halls and pub function rooms were packed to the rafters with people discussing what kind of country, and what kind of society, they wanted to be. It was democracy working in its most fundamental form, and a massive, grass roots programme of education for everyone. At almost 85%, the referendum turnout was higher than in any general election in history. It was the UK’s greatest democratic engagement in modern times, one that electrified a nation. Not according to our masters in Wales: after the vote, Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones said that the referendum had been a “serious injury” to the UK. They much prefer to close debate down, reduce it to slogans and slurs, to play to people’s fears rather than their hopes. It’s what they, and their colleagues in the other two big parties, have done for years. It is, sadly, the UK way of doing politics. The UK nation-state likes to believe that it is a beacon to the world, and in some regards it is. But in too many others, it is a regressive force fuelled still by bewilderment, and even anger, over its entirely inevitable decline from the heights of empire. No amount of tinkering around the edges is going to change that; we need to go back to the drawing board and come up with a new way of co-operating. This is not dismantling something ancient and inviolate. As a nation-state, the UK is little more than two hundred years old; three hundred if you take Ireland out of the equation. Either way, it was a construct to power the industrial, colonial and imperial ages. They are now gone; we need to accept that, move on and adapt accordingly. 9. We need to design a new template for the countries of these islands to fit the twenty-first century. Too much of what we do, too much of who we are and too much of how we conduct ourselves at home and abroad is rooted in a long-vanished past. We should be asking ourselves instead what are the factors most likely to be the building blocks of successful, content and internationally useful nations in the twenty-first century and beyond? My list would include the following: a commitment to real democracy; a robust and resourced education system; a universal health service; baseline principles of equality and tolerance; encouragement of creativity; ample renewable energy capability for domestic needs and export; comprehensive digital access; an equable climate, clean air and plenty of space; an abundance of fresh water and other natural resources; a history of talent and entrepreneurship.