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Dr. Geraint Bowen (10 September 1915 – 16 July 2011) was a Welsh language poet and academic. Born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, he was the nephew of Carmarthenshire minister David Bowen, and the brother of poet Euros Bowen. From grammar school at Aberaeron, he went on to study at University College, Cardiff. After graduating in 1938, he went on to take an MA in Celtic Studies at the University of Liverpool. Bowen's doctoral thesis was a study of Recusant literature in south-east and north-east Wales, and he wrote extensively on this subject and other aspects of Welsh religious history during his academic career. Amongst works published by Bowen were an edition of the Recusant Robert Gwyn's Gwssanaeth y gwyr newydd (1970), an edition of Y Drych Kristnogawl (1996) and a history of the Welsh

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  • Geraint Bowen (1915eko irailaren 10a - 2011ko uztailaren 16) galestar poeta izan zen. Euros Bowen poetaren anaia zen. 1946an Galesko Eisteddfod Nazionaleko presidentetza irabazi zuen, eta 1978tik 1981ra Eisteddfodeko zeremoniak presiditu zituen. (eu)
  • Dr. Geraint Bowen (10 September 1915 – 16 July 2011) was a Welsh language poet and academic. Born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, he was the nephew of Carmarthenshire minister David Bowen, and the brother of poet Euros Bowen. From grammar school at Aberaeron, he went on to study at University College, Cardiff. After graduating in 1938, he went on to take an MA in Celtic Studies at the University of Liverpool. Bowen's doctoral thesis was a study of Recusant literature in south-east and north-east Wales, and he wrote extensively on this subject and other aspects of Welsh religious history during his academic career. Amongst works published by Bowen were an edition of the Recusant Robert Gwyn's Gwssanaeth y gwyr newydd (1970), an edition of Y Drych Kristnogawl (1996) and a history of the Welsh (en)
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  • Dr. Geraint Bowen (10 September 1915 – 16 July 2011) was a Welsh language poet and academic. Born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, he was the nephew of Carmarthenshire minister David Bowen, and the brother of poet Euros Bowen. From grammar school at Aberaeron, he went on to study at University College, Cardiff. After graduating in 1938, he went on to take an MA in Celtic Studies at the University of Liverpool. Bowen's doctoral thesis was a study of Recusant literature in south-east and north-east Wales, and he wrote extensively on this subject and other aspects of Welsh religious history during his academic career. Amongst works published by Bowen were an edition of the Recusant Robert Gwyn's Gwssanaeth y gwyr newydd (1970), an edition of Y Drych Kristnogawl (1996) and a history of the Welsh Mormons during the nineteenth century, Ar Drywydd y Mormoniaid (1999). Despite his interest in religious literature and history, he was an avowed atheist. He was an outspoken Welsh nationalist, and during the Second World War became a conscientious objector, undertaking farming. He stood against Labour, as Plaid Cymru candidate for Wrexham in the 1950 General Election. In 1944, after the war, he came to live with his parents at New Quay, where Dylan Thomas was temporarily living; it has been speculated that his father Orchwy was the inspiration for the Reverend Eli Jenkins in Under Milk Wood. In 1946, Bowen won the bardic Chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Mountain Ash, for his "Awdl Foliant i'r Amaethwr", In 1977 he became editor of Y Faner, and from 1978 to 1981 he presided over the Eisteddfod ceremonies as Archdruid. As Archdruid he was heavily involved in the campaign to force the government to create the promised Welsh-language television channel S4C. He was also a campaigner against the dumping of nuclear waste and was chairman of the campaign group Madryn in the early 1980s. (en)
  • Geraint Bowen (1915eko irailaren 10a - 2011ko uztailaren 16) galestar poeta izan zen. Euros Bowen poetaren anaia zen. 1946an Galesko Eisteddfod Nazionaleko presidentetza irabazi zuen, eta 1978tik 1981ra Eisteddfodeko zeremoniak presiditu zituen. (eu)
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