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Wales, Devolution and Plaid Cymru - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Created awareness of precarious status of the Welsh language
      - promoted bilingualism
      - foundation of the Welsh Language Society(Cymdeithas yr laith Gymraeg)
  - - - Plaid Cymru in the opposition; coalition: Labour + one Lib-Dem + one Independent
- - - - this helps building stronger communities across the countries
  - - - Scotland,Wales and Northern Ireland all held successful referendums on devolution in the late 1990s
        
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        Establishment of separate Parliaments/Assemblies and the democratic election of officials
        
        1997 Scotland and Wales
        
        Northern Ireland
        
        1998 Good Friday Agreement
  - - - agriculture, economic development, culture, education, Welsh Language, Tourism
    - - Agriculture, education, environment, health and social services, sports and the arts, tourism
    - - constitutional matters
      - defence and national security
      - foreign policy
      - immigration and citizenship
      - tax policy
- - - - only about 20% speak Welsh
    - - English and Welsh are treated on an equal basis
  - - - Last free prince of Wales died
    - - especially in South Wales
    - - Establishment of National Welsh Assembly
- - - - The Chairing of the bard
        
        The bard or poet who has written the best strict metre poem traditionally receives a chair, every chair is specially designed and meade for that occasion
        
        ex Chair:
        
        Hedd Wyn's Black Chair (1917)
        
        Owner died in WW I as soldier in the British Army
        
        Hedd Wyn = Alice ... sth,