1988 in Wales

Centuries:	18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; ;
Decades:	1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1988 in The United Kingdom England Scotland Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year1988toWalesandits people.

Incumbents

Events

14 February-Lynette Whiteis murdered in her Cardiff flat. The case remains controversial for over 20 years, with Jeffrey Gafoor eventually being convicted in 2003.^[4]
26 March- TheWelsh Ornithological Societyis founded at Aberystwyth.^[5]
October -County Hall, Cardiff,officially opened as the headquarters ofSouth Glamorgan County Councilbeside the disused Bute East Dock in theAtlantic Wharfarea ofButetown,Cardiff.
4 November-British Railoperates the laststeam locomotivesin its ownership (and its lastnarrow gaugetrains) on theVale of Rheidol Railwayin regular service prior to itsprivatisationnext year (Santa Specialsrun on18 December).
date unknown- The completeBible translation into Welshthat has been in use since 1620 is replaced with a new version,Y Beibl Cymraeg Newydd(BCN), translated directly from the original languages.^[6]

Arts and literature

January -BAFTA Cymruis founded.^[7]
28–31 May- FirstHay Festivalof literature held inHay-on-Wye.
TheGregynogfestival is re-launched byAnthony Rolfe Johnson.^[8]
TheEuropean Centre for Traditional and Regional Culturesopens inLlangollen.^[9]
Independent record labelAnkstis formed at theUniversity of Wales, Aberystwythby Alun Llwyd, Gruffudd Jones and Emyr Glyn Williams.^[10]
This year also sees the foundation of:
- Ffilm Cymru(Film Foundation for Wales)
- New Welsh Review

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales (held inNewport)
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair -Elwyn Edwards,"Storm"^[11]
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown -T. James Jones,"Ffin"^[12]
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal -withheld^[13]

New books

English language

Tony Conran-Blodeuwedd
Hilary Llywelyn-Williams-The Tree Calendar
Sheenagh Pugh-Beware Falling Tortoises^[14]
Oliver Reynolds-The Player Queen's Wife
Bernice Rubens-Our Father^[15]
Glanmor Williams-Recovery, Reorientation and Reformation

Welsh language

Idris Foster,Rachel Bromwich& D. Simon Evans (eds.),Culhwch ac Olwen^[16]
Bobi Jones-Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg 1902-36
Rhiannon Davies Jones-Cribau Eryri
Manon Rhys-Cwtsho
Wiliam Owen Roberts-Y Pla
Huw Walters-Canu'r Pwll a'r Pulpud

Music

Ffa Coffi Pawb-Dalec Peilon
Trebor Edwards-Goreuon Trebor
Bonnie Tyler-Hide Your Heart

Film

Peter GreenawaydirectsDrowning by Numbers.

Welsh-language films

Stormydd Awst

Broadcasting

Welsh-language television

Pobol y Cwmbecomes the first Europeansoap operato be broadcast daily.
C'mon Midffild(drama)

English-language television

The Divided Kingdom(HTV/Channel 4)^[17]

Sport

Association football
- April –Newport County A.F.C.,one of four Welsh teams in the EnglishFootball League,are relegated to theGM Vauxhall Conference.^[18]
Athletics
- Steve Jonesbecomes the first British competitor to win theNew York Marathon.
BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year–Colin Jackson^[19]
Rugby union
- Walestop the1988 Five Nations Championshipwinning theTriple Crown.
- 18 May to 11 June –Walestour New Zealand, losing heavily in both Tests to the All Blacks.
Snooker
- 2 May–Terry Griffithsis defeated in the final of the1988 World Snooker ChampionshipbySteve Davis.
- 27 November–Doug MountjoydefeatsStephen Hendryin the final of theUK Snooker Championshipto claim his second UK title.^[20]

Births

29 January-Catrin Stewart,actress
14 February-Jamie Jones,snooker player^[21]
18 February-Mark Davies,footballer
29 February-Hannah Mills,sports sailor
24 March-Curtis McDonald,footballer
11 April-Nathan Stephens,athlete and Paralympian
20 June-Shefali Chowdhury,actress
24 August-Kelly Lee Owens,electronic musician
5 October-Sam Warburton,rugby player^[22]
15 November-Dan Evans,rugby player^[23]
13 December-Darcy Blake,footballer
22 December-Leigh Halfpenny,rugby player^[24]
28 December
- Ched Evans,footballer
- Elfyn Evans,rally driver
31 December-Holly Holyoake,singer

Deaths

January -George Ewart Evans,folklorist and oral historian, 78
26 January-Raymond Williams,writer, 66^[25]
2 April-Euros Bowen,poet, 83^[26]
April -T. Glynne Davies,poet, novelist and broadcaster, 62^[27]
13 May-Elfed Evans,footballer, 61
18 May-Brandon Rhys-Williams,politician, 60^[28]
15 June-David Blackmore,cricketer, 88
8 September-Mel Rosser,dual-code international rugby player, 87
23 September-Arwel Hughes,composer and conductor, 79^[29]
12 October-Ruth Manning-Sanders,poet and children's author, 102
16 October-John Gwilym Jones,dramatist, 84^[30]
11 November-William Ifor Jones,conductor and organist, 88
1 December-Alun Oldfield-Davies,controller of BBC Wales, 83^[31]
13 December-Brynmor John,politician, 54^[32]
25 December-W. F. Grimes,archaeologist,83^[33]
27 December-Tecwyn Roberts,aerospace engineer, 63^[34]
date unknown
- John Morgan,journalist
- Ray Price,rugby player, 64 (brain haemorrhage)^[35]

References

^"Lord Walker: Durable left-of-centre Conservative politician who served in government under Heath and Thatcher".The Independent.23 June 2010.Retrieved23 November2015.
^"The Right Rev George Noakes: Archbishop of Wales, 1987-1991".Times, The (London). 22 July 2008. Archived fromthe originalon May 23, 2010.Retrieved27 July2008.
^"Former Archdruid of Wales Emrys Roberts dies at 82".BBC News. 30 March 2012.Retrieved1 April2012.
^"Lynette White murder: Timeline of events".BBC News.14 June 2016.Retrieved26 February2019.
^Everett, Mike; Prytherch, Robin (1988). "News and comment".British Birds.81(7): 344–347.
^The Late F L Cross; Frank Leslie Cross; Elizabeth A Livingstone (2005).The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.Oxford University Press. p. 1738.ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3.
^"About BAFTA Cymru".BAFTA Cymru.Retrieved22 November2018.
^George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood (2010).Opera.Rolls House Publishing Company.
^Dallen J. Timothy (2 March 2017).Managing Heritage and Cultural Tourism Resources: Critical Essays, Volume One.Taylor & Francis. p. 403.ISBN 978-1-351-92053-7.
^Adams, Owen (2010-05-06)."Label of love: Ankst".The Guardian.London.Archivedfrom the original on 9 May 2010.Retrieved2010-05-11.
^"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.Retrieved7 November2019.
^Europa Publications (2 August 2004).International Who's Who in Poetry 2005.Routledge. p. 1279.ISBN 978-1-135-35519-7.
^Bernice Rubens (1988).Our Father.Abacus.ISBN 978-0-349-12904-4.
^Robert Geraint Gruffydd."Foster, Idris, Llewelyn (1911-1984), Welsh and Celtic Scholar".Dictionary of Welsh Biography.National Library of Wales.Retrieved24 November2019.
^Horace Newcomb (3 February 2014).Encyclopedia of Television.Routledge. p. 2550.ISBN 978-1-135-19472-7.
^George, Ricky (2008-01-14)."There's still some steel in Newport County".The Daily Telegraph.London.
^"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners".BBC Sport.Retrieved2 August2021.
^"Profile: Doug Mountjoy".Eurosport.3 December 2009.Retrieved16 May2019.
^"Jamie Jones".WPBSA.Retrieved18 April2022.
^"Sam Warburton".ESPN.Retrieved25 February2019.
^"Dan Evans".ESPN.Retrieved25 February2019.
^"Leigh Halfpenny".ESPN.Retrieved25 February2019.
^Alan O'Connor (2006).Raymond Williams.Rowman & Littlefield. p. 7.ISBN 978-0-7425-3550-3.
^New England review and bread loaf quarterly.1987.
^BBC Worldwide; British Broadcasting Corporation (1 December 1998).Annual Report and Accounts.BBC Worldwide.ISBN 978-0-563-22675-8.
^John Graham Jones."Rhys-Williams, Brandon Meredith (1927-1988), Conservative politician".Dictionary of Welsh Biography.National Library of Wales.Retrieved24 November2019.
^Rhidian Griffiths."HUGHES, ARWEL (1909-1988), musician".Dictionary of Welsh Biography.National Library of Wales.Retrieved24 November2018.
^William Robert Lewis (1994).John Gwilym Jones.University of Wales Press. p. 1.ISBN 978-0-7083-1251-3.
^Davies, Geraint Talfan (2011). "Alun Bennett Oldfield-Davies".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/101151.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
^John Graham Jones."JOHN, BRYNMOR THOMAS (1934-1988), Labour politician".Dictionary of Welsh Biography.National Library of Wales.Retrieved24 November2018.
^David Gill, 'Grimes, William Francis (1905–1988)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004accessed 3 May 2013
^Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried (23 March 2016).The Birth of NASA: The Work of the Space Task Group, America's First True Space Pioneers.Springer. p. 280.ISBN 978-3-319-28428-6.
^"Ray Price joins Warrington Hall of Fame".Warrington Guardian.4 May 2008.Retrieved26 February2019.

[1] "Lord Walker: Durable left-of-centre Conservative politician who served in government under Heath and Thatcher".The Independent.23 June 2010.Retrieved23 November2015.

[2] "The Right Rev George Noakes: Archbishop of Wales, 1987-1991".Times, The (London). 22 July 2008. Archived fromthe originalon May 23, 2010.Retrieved27 July2008.

[3] "Former Archdruid of Wales Emrys Roberts dies at 82".BBC News. 30 March 2012.Retrieved1 April2012.

[4] "Lynette White murder: Timeline of events".BBC News.14 June 2016.Retrieved26 February2019.

[5] Everett, Mike; Prytherch, Robin (1988). "News and comment".British Birds.81(7): 344–347.

[6] The Late F L Cross; Frank Leslie Cross; Elizabeth A Livingstone (2005).The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.Oxford University Press. p. 1738.ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3.

[7] "About BAFTA Cymru".BAFTA Cymru.Retrieved22 November2018.

[8] George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood (2010).Opera.Rolls House Publishing Company.

[9] Dallen J. Timothy (2 March 2017).Managing Heritage and Cultural Tourism Resources: Critical Essays, Volume One.Taylor & Francis. p. 403.ISBN 978-1-351-92053-7.

[Guardian-10] Adams, Owen (2010-05-06)."Label of love: Ankst".The Guardian.London.Archivedfrom the original on 9 May 2010.Retrieved2010-05-11.

[11] "Winners of the Chair".National Eisteddfod of Wales.17 November 2019.

[12] "Winners of the Crown".National Eisteddfod of Wales.17 November 2019.

[13] "Winners of the Prose Medal".National Eisteddfod of Wales.Retrieved7 November2019.

[14] Europa Publications (2 August 2004).International Who's Who in Poetry 2005.Routledge. p. 1279.ISBN 978-1-135-35519-7.

[15] Bernice Rubens (1988).Our Father.Abacus.ISBN 978-0-349-12904-4.

[16] Robert Geraint Gruffydd."Foster, Idris, Llewelyn (1911-1984), Welsh and Celtic Scholar".Dictionary of Welsh Biography.National Library of Wales.Retrieved24 November2019.

[17] Horace Newcomb (3 February 2014).Encyclopedia of Television.Routledge. p. 2550.ISBN 978-1-135-19472-7.

[18] George, Ricky (2008-01-14)."There's still some steel in Newport County".The Daily Telegraph.London.

[19] "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners".BBC Sport.Retrieved2 August2021.

[20] "Profile: Doug Mountjoy".Eurosport.3 December 2009.Retrieved16 May2019.

[21] "Jamie Jones".WPBSA.Retrieved18 April2022.

[22] "Sam Warburton".ESPN.Retrieved25 February2019.

[23] "Dan Evans".ESPN.Retrieved25 February2019.

[24] "Leigh Halfpenny".ESPN.Retrieved25 February2019.

[25] Alan O'Connor (2006).Raymond Williams.Rowman & Littlefield. p. 7.ISBN 978-0-7425-3550-3.

[26] New England review and bread loaf quarterly.1987.

[27] BBC Worldwide; British Broadcasting Corporation (1 December 1998).Annual Report and Accounts.BBC Worldwide.ISBN 978-0-563-22675-8.

[28] John Graham Jones."Rhys-Williams, Brandon Meredith (1927-1988), Conservative politician".Dictionary of Welsh Biography.National Library of Wales.Retrieved24 November2019.

[29] Rhidian Griffiths."HUGHES, ARWEL (1909-1988), musician".Dictionary of Welsh Biography.National Library of Wales.Retrieved24 November2018.

[30] William Robert Lewis (1994).John Gwilym Jones.University of Wales Press. p. 1.ISBN 978-0-7083-1251-3.

[31] Davies, Geraint Talfan (2011). "Alun Bennett Oldfield-Davies".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/101151.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)

[32] John Graham Jones."JOHN, BRYNMOR THOMAS (1934-1988), Labour politician".Dictionary of Welsh Biography.National Library of Wales.Retrieved24 November2018.

[33] David Gill, 'Grimes, William Francis (1905–1988)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004accessed 3 May 2013

[34] Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried (23 March 2016).The Birth of NASA: The Work of the Space Task Group, America's First True Space Pioneers.Springer. p. 280.ISBN 978-3-319-28428-6.

[35] "Ray Price joins Warrington Hall of Fame".Warrington Guardian.4 May 2008.Retrieved26 February2019.

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