2001 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 2001 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
[edit]- First Minister – Rhodri Morgan
- Secretary of State for Wales – Paul Murphy
- Archbishop of Wales – Rowan Williams
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Meirion Evans
Events
[edit]- 1 March – Peter Clarke is appointed Children's Commissioner for Wales.
- 1 June – Official opening of Cardiff Bay Barrage.
- 7 June – In the UK general election:
- Plaid Cymru retain a total of 4 seats. They lose Ynys Môn to Labour but Adam Price gains Carmarthen East and Dinefwr from Labour's Alan Williams.
- Newly elected Labour MPs include Hywel Francis (Aberavon), Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside), Wayne David (Caerphilly), Ian Lucas (Wrexham) and Chris Bryant (Rhondda)
- Kevin Brennan replaces Rhodri Morgan as MP for Cardiff West.
- 16 June – Entrepreneur Terry Matthews is knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
- 11 July – Welsh language pressure group Cymuned is launched at a meeting in Mynytho.
- 1 August – Coleg Harlech Workers' Educational Association (North Wales) is created through the merger of The Workers' Educational Association (North Wales) and Coleg Harlech.
- 16 September – To commemorate "Glyndwr Day", actress Siân Phillips unveils a memorial statue to Catrin Glyndŵr in London.
- 26 October – A memorial service to celebrate the life of Harry Secombe is held at Westminster Abbey and attended by the Prince of Wales (now Charles III).
Arts and literature
[edit]- 15 March – Julien Macdonald is chosen as fashion house Givenchy's new designer.[1]
- 24 March – Opening of the exhibition Let Paul Robeson Sing! in Cardiff.[2]
- 15 December – Rob Brydon wins Best TV Comedy Actor award in the British Comedy Awards.
- 25 December – Matthew Rhys and Tom Ward star in a TV adaptation of The Lost World.
- November – John Bourne establishes the Wrexham Stuckists group of artists.[3]
- Jessica Garlick makes the last ten in the first series of Pop Idol.
- Andrew Vicari sells a collection of 125 paintings of the First Gulf War to Prince Khaled of Saudi Arabia for £17 million.
- Irish photographer Paul Seawright is awarded a personal chair by the University of Wales, Newport.
Awards
[edit]- Prix Hélène Rochas – Rebecca Evans
- Cardiff Singer of the World – Marius Brenciu
- Glyndŵr Award – John Meirion Morris
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Mererid Hopwood (first woman ever to win the chair)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Penri Roberts
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Elfyn Pritchard
- Wales Book of the Year:
- English language: Stephen Knight – Mr Schnitzel
- Welsh language: Owen Martell – Cadw dy ffydd, brawd
- Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen -
New books
[edit]English language
[edit]- Malcolm Pryce – Aberystwyth Mon Amour
- Alastair Reynolds – Chasm City
- Jon Ronson – Them: Adventures with Extremists
- Carole Seymour-Jones – Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot
Welsh language
[edit]- Roger Boore and Rhian Nest James – Hoff Hwiangerddi
- Gwynfor Evans – Cymru o Hud
- Tudur Dylan Jones – Adenydd
- Angharad Tomos – Cnonyn Aflonydd
Music
[edit]- Feeder – Echo Park (album)
- Hilary Tann – The Grey Tide and the Green, commissioned for the Last Night of the Welsh Proms and performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes
- Catatonia – Paper Scissors Stone (album)
- Goldie Lookin' Chain – Don't Blame the Chain (album)
- Melys – Chinese Whispers (album)
- Terris – "Fabricated Lunacy" (single) and Learning to Let Go (debut album)
Film
[edit]- John Rhys-Davies makes his first appearance as Gimli in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
- Sara Sugarman writes and directs Very Annie Mary, featuring Welsh stars such as Jonathan Pryce, Kenneth Griffith, Matthew Rhys, Ioan Gruffudd, Mary Hopkin and Ruth Madoc.
- Rhys Ifans co-stars in The Shipping News.
- A Bollywood film, Mein Dil Tujhko Diya (I Gave You my Heart), is shot in Aberystwyth and the Elan Valley.
- In Gosford Park, Jeremy Northam plays a fictionalised version of Ivor Novello. Several of Novello's songs feature in the film's soundtrack.
- Nia Roberts stars in A Day Out.
Welsh-language films
[edit]Broadcasting
[edit]Welsh-language television
[edit]- Y Stafell Ddirgel (drama serial)
English-language television
[edit]- The Bench
Sport
[edit]- BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Joe Calzaghe[5]
- Football – Liverpool F.C. win the FA Cup the first time it is played in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.
Births
[edit]- 23 March – Dream Alliance, racehorse bred near Blackwood[6]
Deaths
[edit]- 11 January – Lorna Sage, critic, 57 (emphysema)[7]
- 20 January – Crispin Nash-Williams, mathematician, 68[8]
- 18 February – Claude Davey, Wales international rugby union captain, 92[9]
- 22 February – Cledwyn Hughes, Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos, former Secretary of State for Wales, 84[10]
- 11 April – Sir Harry Secombe, singer and comedian, 79[11]
- 16 April – Henry Morgan Lloyd, clergyman, 89[12]
- 26 April – Dafydd Rowlands, minister and writer, 69[13]
- 30 April – Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, poet, critic and politician, 71[14]
- 25 May – Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone, 67[15]
- 10 June – Samuel Ifor Enoch, theologian, 86
- 17 July – Val Feld, the first member of the Welsh Assembly to die, 53 (cancer)[16]
- 19 July – Roderic Bowen, MP, 87[17]
- August – Valerie Davies, Olympic swimmer, 89
- 19 September – Rhys Jones, archaeologist, 60
- October – John Owen, television writer (suicide)
- 6 December – Eryl Stephen Thomas, former Bishop of Monmouth and of Llandaff, 91[18]
- 7 December – Ray Powell, MP, 73[19]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf (2002). Contemporary Fashion. St. James Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-1-55862-348-4.
- ^ New Statesman. New Statesman Limited and Contributors. April 2001. p. 40.
- ^ "About us". Stuckism Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- ^ Ifans, Rhys (2000). "Archif Genedlaethol Sgrin a Sain Cymru/Against the Dying of the Light (search for Jack Jewers)". Promotional film (10 minutes). The National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales. pp. Cell E123 8313. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
- ^ "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Marcus Armytage (4 April 2010). "Dream Alliance: from slag heap allotment to Grand National hopeful". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
- ^ Nigel Reynolds (24 January 2001). "Whitbread judges split over Kneale". The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ "Crispin St John Alvah Nash-Williams". dcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Great Welsh centre Davey dies". ESPN. 21 February 2001. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ Andrew Roth (23 February 2001). "Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Harris M. Lentz III (16 April 2002). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-7864-1278-5.
- ^ "The Very Reverend Henry Lloyd". The Telegraph. 26 April 2001. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ Meic Stephens (2008). Necrologies: A Book of Welsh Obituaries. Seren. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-85411-476-1.
- ^ Meic Stephens (1 October 2007). Poetry 1900-2000. Summersdale Publishers Limited. p. 365. ISBN 978-1-84839-722-4.
- ^ Trevor Herbert. "BRYN-JONES, Delme (1934-2001), opera singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Paul Williams (10 August 2001). "Val Feld". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Andrew Roth (25 July 2001). "Roderic Bowen". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Farewell to former bishop". South Wales Argus. 12 December 2001. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ Andrew Roth (10 December 2001). "Sir Ray Powell". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2020.