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This article is about the particular significance of the year '''1978''' to [[Wales]] and [[Welsh people|its people]].
==Incumbents==
{{For|United Kingdom incumbents|1978 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents}}
*[[Secretary of State for Wales]] – [[John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon|John Morris]]<ref>{{cite book|author1=Pryde, E. B.|author2=Greenway, D. E.|author3=Porter, S.|author4=Roy, I.|title=Handbook of British Chronology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcgxEvGAK_kC&pg=PA157|date=1996-02-23|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-56350-5|pages=157}}</ref>
*[[Archbishop of Wales]] – [[Gwilym Williams]], [[Bishop of Bangor]]<ref name="NA2015">{{cite book|author=NA NA|title=The Macmillan Guide to the United Kingdom 1978-79|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ot-vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA875|date=25 December 2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-349-81511-1|pages=875}}</ref>
*[[
**[[Richard Bryn Williams|Bryn]] (outgoing)<ref name="Stephens1986">{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic|url-access=registration|date=April 1986|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic/page/220 220]}}</ref>
**[[Geraint Bowen (poet)|Geraint (Bowen)]] (incoming)<ref name="NA2015"/>
==Events==
*March - [[Moss Evans]] is elected leader of the [[Transport and General Workers Union]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1381353/Moss-Evans.html|title=Moss Evans|date=14 January 2002|website=The Telegraph|access-date=2 October 2024}}</ref>
*March/April - Closure of the steelworks in [[Ebbw Vale]] and [[East Moors]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sander Meredeen|title=Managing industrial conflict: seven major disputes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQFYAAAAYAAJ|date=1 August 1988|publisher=Hutchinson|isbn=978-0-09-173226-4}}</ref>
*''unknown dates''
**The [[Welsh Office]] is given responsibility for further and higher education in Wales.
**The National Language Centre is established at Nant Gwrtheyrn in the [[Lleyn peninsula]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Mari C. Jones|title=Language Obsolescence and Revitalization: Linguistic Change in Two Sociolinguistically Contrasting Welsh Communities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w9u_GG41b_8C&pg=PA19|year=1998|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-823711-2|pages=19}}</ref>
==Arts and literature==
*[[Richard Burton]] records the narrative for the [[concept album]] ''[[Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds]]''.
*Operatic contralto [[Helen Watts]] is appointed a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]].
*[[Gregynog Press]] is reincarnated as "Gwasg Gregynog".<ref>{{cite book|title=Printing History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EGAgAQAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=American Printing History Association}}</ref>
===Awards===
*National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in [[Cardiff]])
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - ''withheld''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair?_ga=2.196744876.1631880097.1570104027-963760572.1570104027|title=Winners of the Chair|website=National Eisteddfod of Wales|date=3 October 2019}}{{Dead link|date=February 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - [[Siôn Eirian]]<ref>{{cite book|author=David Ben Rees|title=Wales: The Cultural Heritage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_2FnAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=G.W. & A. Hesketh|isbn=978-0-905777-16-0|page=54}}</ref>
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - [[Harri Williams]]
===New books===
====English language====
*[[Ruth Bidgood]] - ''The Print of Miracle''<ref>{{cite book|author=Matthew Jarvis|title=Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry: Writing Wales in English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lo0fAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2152-2|page=60}}</ref>
*[[Ken Follett]] - ''[[Eye of the Needle (novel)|Eye of the Needle]]''
*[[James Hanley (novelist)|James Hanley]] - ''A Kingdom''
*[[Robert Minhinnick]] - ''A Thread in the Maze''
*[[John Tripp (poet)|John Tripp]] - ''Collected Poems''
*[[Gwyn A. Williams]] - ''The Merthyr Rising''<ref>{{cite book|author=David Howell|title=British Workers and the Independent Labour Party, 1888-1906|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VDC8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA446|year=1984|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-1791-9|pages=446}}</ref>
====Welsh language====
*[[Marion Eames]] - ''I Hela Cnau''<ref>{{cite book|author=Katie Gramich|title=Twentieth-century Women's Writing in Wales: Land, Gender, Belonging|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qo0fAQAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2086-0|page=163}}</ref>
*[[Gwyn Thomas (poet)|Gwyn Thomas]] - ''Croesi Traeth''
*[[T. Arfon Williams]] - ''Englynion Arfon''
===Music===
*[[Dave Edmunds]] - ''[[Tracks on Wax 4]]''
*[[Geraint Jarman]] - ''Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau''
==Film==
*[[Kenneth Griffith]] appears with [[Richard Burton]] in ''[[The Wild Geese]]''.
==Broadcasting==
===Welsh
*''Shane'' becomes the first film to be dubbed into the [[Welsh language]] for television.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Economist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-7HAAAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Economist Newspaper Limited|page=30}}</ref>
*''Bys a Bawd'' with [[Marged Esli]].
*''Pippi Hosanhir''
===English
*[[17 March]] - [[BBC Wales]] comedy film ''[[Grand Slam (1978 film)|Grand Slam]]'' stars [[Hugh Griffith]] and [[Windsor Davies]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Steven Blandford|title=Wales on Screen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OLuRAAAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Seren|isbn=978-1-85411-248-4}}</ref>
*BBC Wales drama serial ''Hawkmoor'', based on the life of [[Twm Siôn Cati]], stars [[John Ogwen]] and [[Jane Asher]].
*[[Elaine Morgan (writer)|Elaine Morgan]]'s adaptation of ''[[Off to Philadelphia in the Morning (TV series)|Off to Philadelphia in the Morning]]'', the novel by [[Jack Jones (novelist)|Jack Jones]], stars [[David Lyn]] as [[Joseph Parry]] and [[Connie Booth]] as his wife, Jane. [[Meredith Edwards (actor)|Meredith Edwards]], [[Rachel Thomas (actress)|Rachel Thomas]] and [[William Squire]] also appear.
===English-language radio===
*[[13 November]] - [[BBC Radio Wales]] is launched,<ref>{{cite book|author=Aldridge, Meryl|title=Understanding The Local Media|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd7sAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA135|date=1 April 2007|publisher=McGraw-Hill Education (UK)|isbn=978-0-335-22172-1|pages=135}}</ref> following the demise of the 'Radio 4 Wales' service (previously the Welsh [[Home Service]]). The first show is ''AM'', presented by Anita Morgan.
==Sport==
*[[BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year]] – [[Johnny Owen]]<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Wales Sport Personality winners |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/20670643 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref>
*[[Boxing]] – [[Johnny Owen]] wins the Commonwealth bantamweight title.
*[[Darts]] – [[Leighton Rees]] wins the [[World Professional Darts Championship]].
*[[Rugby union]] – [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales]] win their eighth [[Grand Slam (rugby union)|Grand Slam]].
*[[Snooker]]
**[[29 April]] – [[Ray Reardon]] wins the [[1978 World Snooker Championship|World Championship]] for the sixth time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/37495257 |title=Welsh Open Snooker trophy named after legend Ray Reardon |date=28 September 2016 |publisher=[[BBC Sport]] |access-date=16 May 2019}}</ref>
**[[1 December]] – [[Doug Mountjoy]] wins the [[1978 UK Championship|UK Snooker Championship]] in [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eurosport.com/snooker/profile-doug-mountjoy_sto2140935/story.shtml |title=Profile: Doug Mountjoy |date=3 December 2009 |publisher=[[Eurosport]] |access-date=16 May 2019}}</ref>
==Births==
*[[21 January]] - [[Rachael Bland]], née Hodges, broadcast journalist (died [[2018 in the United Kingdom|2018]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/07/rachael-bland-obituary|title=Rachael Bland obituary|website=The Guardian|date=7 September 2018|access-date=31 December 2018}}</ref>
*[[
*[[12 February]] - [[Gethin Jones]], television presenter
*[[26 July]] - [[Eve Myles]], actress
*[[2 September]] - [[Matthew Watkins]], rugby union player (died [[2020 in Wales|2020]])
*[[17 November]] - [[Tom Ellis (actor)|Tom Ellis]], actor
*[[25 December]] - [[Simon Jones (cricketer)|Simon Jones]], cricketer
*''date unknown''
**[[David Llewellyn (author)|David Llewellyn]], fiction writer
**[[Rachel Trezise]], fiction writer
==Deaths==
*[[6 January]] - [[Ted Jones (trade unionist)|Ted Jones]], trade union leader, 81<ref>Keith Gildart, "Jones, Edward ('Ted')", ''Dictionary of Labour Biography'', vol.XIV, pp.188–199</ref>
*[[11 January]] - [[William John Edwards]], Cerdd Dant singer, 79
*[[17 February]] - [[Joseph Owen]], cricketer, 69<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31830/31830.html Joseph Owen at CricketArchive]</ref>
*[[20 February]] - [[Tom Jones (footballer, born 1899)|Tom Jones]], footballer, 88<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mufcinfo.com/manupag/a-z_player_archive/a-z_player_archive_pages/jones_thomas.html |title=Thomas Jones |website=mufcinfo.com |access-date=1 March 2020}}</ref>
*[[23 February]] - [[Arwyn Davies, Baron Arwyn]], politician, 80<ref>{{cite book|title=Who was who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HT4OAQAAMAAJ|year=1971|publisher=A. & C. Black|page=28|isbn = 9780312877460}}</ref>
*[[24 February]] - [[David Williams (historian)|David Williams]], historian, 78<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=63676|title=Williams, David}}</ref>
*[[2 March]] - [[Frances Williams (composer)|Frances Williams]], composer,<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Eugene Claghorn|title=Women Composers and Songwriters: A Concise Biographical Dictionary|url=https://archive.org/details/womencomposersso0000clag|url-access=registration|date=1 January 1996|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-3130-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/womencomposersso0000clag/page/236 236]-7}}</ref>
*[[6 March]] - [[David Price-White]], lawyer and politician, 71<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s8-PRIC-PRI-1906|title=Price-White, David Archibald Price (1906-1978), Conservative politician|author=John Graham Jones|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=3 March 2020}}</ref>
*[[4 April]] - Sir [[Morien Morgan]], aeronautics engineer, 65<ref>{{cite book|title=Canadian Aeronautics and Space Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RZ3GAAAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute.}}</ref>
*[[9 April]] - Sir [[Clough Williams-Ellis]], architect, 94<ref>{{cite book|author1=Richard Haslam|author2=Clough Williams-Ellis|title=Clough Williams-Ellis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FCRQAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Academy Editions|isbn=978-1-85490-430-0}}</ref>
*[[13 April]] - [[William Rees-Thomas]], psychiatrist, 90<ref>REES-THOMAS, William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U158859, accessed 28 Dec 2012]</ref>
*[[14 April]] - [[Thomas Hollingdale]], Wales rugby union international, 77
*[[16 April]] - [[Eddie Morgan (rugby player)|Eddie Morgan]], Wales international rugby player, 64
*[[25 April]] - [[Harry Griffiths (footballer, born 1931)|Harry Griffiths]], footballer and manager, 47
*[[18 May]] - [[Selwyn Lloyd]], politician, 73<ref>{{cite book|author=Bassil A. Mardelli|title=Middle East Perspectives: Personal Recollections (1947 - 1967)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=INl8jGsewjUC&pg=PA197|date=April 2010|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-1-4502-1116-1|pages=197}}</ref>
*[[2 July]] - [[Philip Scott Yorke]], last Squire of [[Erddig]], 73
*[[21 August]] - [[Rhys Davies (writer)|Rhys Davies]], 76, novelist and short story writer<ref name="Osborne2009">{{cite book|author=Huw Osborne|title=Rhys Davies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qHuvBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA131|date=1 July 2009|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2242-0|pages=131}}</ref>
*[[25 August]] - [[Tyssul Griffiths]], rugby player, 59
*[[4 September]] – [[Leonora Cohen]], suffragette, trade unionist and feminist, 105
*[[12 September]] - [[Bobby Delahay]], Wales rugby union captain, 78
*[[13 November]] - [[W. S. Gwynn Williams]], composer, 82<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s10-WILL-GWY-1896|title=Williams, William Sidney Gwynn (1896-1978), musician and administrator|author=Rhidian Griffiths|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=13 October 2019}}</ref>
*[[23 November]] - [[Edward Jones (cricketer)|Edward Jones]], 82, cricketer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Articles/1/1132.html|title=Brief profile of Edward Jones|last=Hignell|first=Dr. A.K.|date=December 2003|access-date=23 September 2011}}</ref>
*[[16 December]] - [[Harry Phillips (rugby union)|Harry Phillips]], Wales international rugby player, 75
==See also==
*[[1978 in Northern Ireland]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:1978 by country|Wales]]
[[Category:1978 in the United Kingdom| Wales]]
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