Ardal dynodi
Cod cyfeirnod
Teitl
Dyddiad(au)
- 1928-1978 (Creation)
Lefel y disgrifiad
Fonds
Maint a chyfrwng
0.155 cubic metres (1 large box; 15 small boxes)
Ardal cyd-destun
Enw'r crëwr
Hanes bywgraffyddol
John Legonna (1918-1978), farmer, Welsh and Celtic nationalist, and conscientious objector, was of Welsh and Cornish parentage. His family came to Cardiganshire in 1939, and Legonna was educated at Coleg Harlech, the University College of Swansea and Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied law. He married Catherine Irene Thomas and settled in Cardiganshire, farming at Penrhos Fawr and Penlan Mabws, Llanrhystud, and at Ffynnon Gloch and Penparc, Llannarth, resisting conscription into the armed forces because of his nationalist beliefs. He spent much of his life involved in the politics and culture of Wales and the Celtic countries, notably as a founder of the New Nation Group and its magazine, Cilmeri. A selection of his autobiographical essays was published as 'Celtic Odyssey' in 2001. Legonna was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1974, and after an increasingly frustrating struggle with the condition he took his own life with characteristic defiance in 1978.
Hanes archifol
Ffynhonnell
Bequeathed by John Legonna and received in July 1987 per his brother, Dr N F Brooks, Sherborne, Dorset
Ardal cynnwys a strwythur
Natur a chynnwys
Papers of John Legonna, including correspondence with Per Denez, Alan Heusaff, Goulven Pennaod (George Pinault), Harri Webb and others; diaries; poetry; prose; autobiographical notes and personal reflections; farming records; college notes on Welsh and Irish history and law; material relating to Legonna's political views and his activities with Welsh and Celtic nationalist organisations, especially Mudiad Gweriniaethol Cymru (Welsh Republican Movement), the Welsh National Party, and the New Nation Movement and its journal, 'Cilmeri'; printed and cyclostyled ephemera; personal and family records; miscellaneous printed material relating to Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'; programmes for local eisteddfodau at Llannon and Llanrhystud; and typescript drafts of unpublished plays.
Gwerthuso, dinistrio ac amserlennu
Action: All records donated to the National Library of Wales have been retained.
Croniadau
Accruals are not expected.
System o drefniant
Arranged into three groups: 1987 Bequest; 1989 Donation; and 2011 Donation.
Ardal amodau mynediad a defnydd
Amodau rheoli mynediad
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the 'Modern papers - data protection' form.
Amodau rheoli atgynhyrchu
Usual copyright regulations apply
Iaith y deunydd
- Llydaweg
- Saesneg
- Ffrangeg
- Gaeleg yr Alban
- Cymraeg
Sgript o ddeunydd
Nodiadau iaith a sgript
English and Welsh, with a few in Breton, Cornish, French and Scots Gaelic.
Cyflwr ac anghenion technegol
Cymhorthion chwilio
A hard copy of the first part of the catalogue is available in Minor Lists and Summaries 1988, pp. 30-35, at the National Library of Wales. The catalogue can be accessed online.
Ardal deunyddiau perthynol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad y gwreiddiol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad copïau
Unedau o ddisgrifiad cysylltiedig
Nodyn cyhoeddiad
A collection of John Legonna's autobiographical short stories, taken from papers in this archive, was published as 'Celtic odyssey' (Gwasg y Dref Wen : Cardiff, 2001).
Ardal nodiadau
Nodiadau
Title supplied from contents.
Dynodwr(dynodwyr) eraill
Virtua system control number
Project identifier
Pwyntiau mynediad
Pwyntiau mynediad pwnc
Pwyntiau mynediad lleoedd
Pwyntiau mynediad Enw
- Welsh Republican Movement -- Archives. (Pwnc)
- Welsh Republican Movement. (Pwnc)
- Plaid Cymru. Rhanbarth Ceredigion. (Pwnc)
- MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 -- Correspondence. (Pwnc)
- Pennaod, Goulven, b. 1929 -- Correspondence. (Pwnc)
- Webb, Harri, 1920- -- Correspondence. (Pwnc)
- Legonna, John -- Archives. (Pwnc)
- Denez, Per -- Correspondence (Pwnc)
- Heusaff, Alan -- Correspondence. (Pwnc)
- MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978. (Pwnc)
- Pennaod, Goulven. (Pwnc)
- Webb, Harri, 1920- (Pwnc)
- Denez, Per (Pwnc)
Pwyntiau mynediad Genre
Ardal rheolaeth disgrifiad
Dynodwr disgrifiad
Dynodwr sefydliad
Rheolau a/neu confensiynau a ddefnyddiwyd
Description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.;AACR2; and LCSH
Statws
Lefel manylder disgrifiad
Dyddiadau creadigaeth adolygiad dilead
January 2004 and February 2015.
Iaith(ieithoedd)
- Saesneg
Sgript(iau)
Ffynonellau
Nodyn yr archifydd
Compiled by Seri Crawley for the ANW Project, with additions by David Moore. The following sources were consulted in the compilation of this description: NLW, Minor Lists and Summaries, 1988; NLW, W. W. Price Biographical Index (unpublished), Vol. XX; Stephens, Meic, The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales (Oxford, 1986); papers within the archive;