The 1960s: Of Wales and Welshness

THERE MUST HAVE been a lot of singing and beer drinking on March 1 in Llandudno and Merthyr Tydfil, Cardiff and Caernarvon,. For every March 1, in case you have forgotten, is St. David’s Day.

St. David is the patron saint of Wales. In the obscurity of the far-distant past, in the sixth century when there were wolves in Wales, it is said that this pious and gentle man dedicated his life to making Wales what it is today
-- a peninsula to the west of England measuring 7,409 square miles and popu...