2001 in Wales

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Last updated December 20, 2023

This article is about the particular significance of the year 2001 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

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

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

Prix Hélène Rochas – Rebecca Evans
Cardiff Singer of the World – Marius Brenciu
Glyndŵr Award – John Meirion Morris

National Eisteddfod (held in Denbigh)

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

English language

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

Roger Boore and Rhian Nest James – Hoff Hwiangerddi
Gwynfor Evans – Cymru o Hud
Tudur Dylan Jones – Adenydd
Angharad Tomos – Cnonyn Aflonydd

Music

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

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

Against the Dying of the Light ^[4]
Y Delyn

Broadcasting

Welsh-language television

Y Stafell Ddirgel (drama serial)

English-language television

The Bench

Sport

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

23 March – Dream Alliance, racehorse bred near Blackwood^[6]

Deaths

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]

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References

↑ 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.

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[1] Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf (2002). Contemporary Fashion. St. James Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-1-55862-348-4.

[2] New Statesman. New Statesman Limited and Contributors. April 2001. p. 40.

[3] "About us". Stuckism Wales. Retrieved 15 April 2019.

[4] 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.

[5] "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 August 2021.

[6] Marcus Armytage (4 April 2010). "Dream Alliance: from slag heap allotment to Grand National hopeful". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 December 2010.

[7] Nigel Reynolds (24 January 2001). "Whitbread judges split over Kneale". The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 January 2020.

[8] "Crispin St John Alvah Nash-Williams". dcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 March 2019.

[9] "Great Welsh centre Davey dies". ESPN. 21 February 2001. Retrieved 25 January 2020.

[10] Andrew Roth (23 February 2001). "Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2019.

[11] 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.

[12] "The Very Reverend Henry Lloyd". The Telegraph. 26 April 2001. Retrieved 25 January 2020.

[13] Meic Stephens (2008). Necrologies: A Book of Welsh Obituaries. Seren. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-85411-476-1.

[14] Meic Stephens (1 October 2007). Poetry 1900-2000. Summersdale Publishers Limited. p. 365. ISBN 978-1-84839-722-4.

[15] Trevor Herbert. "BRYN-JONES, Delme (1934-2001), opera singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 1 March 2019.

[16] Paul Williams (10 August 2001). "Val Feld". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2019.

[17] Andrew Roth (25 July 2001). "Roderic Bowen". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2019.

[18] "Farewell to former bishop". South Wales Argus. 12 December 2001. Retrieved 25 January 2020.

[19] Andrew Roth (10 December 2001). "Sir Ray Powell". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2020.

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