Seren Cymru was a

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. It was first published in

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in 1851 by Samuel Evans, but failed. It was more successful when it was re-established in 1856, with J. Emlyn Jones as editor. It contained local, national, and international news, and contributions from people with radical ideas. The paper was owned by the printer William Morgan Evans until 1880, after which he sold it to a

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company.Seren Cymru
at Welsh Newspapers Online,

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Editors

:1960–1972:

David Eirwyn Morgan David Eirwyn Morgan ( ; 23 April 1918 – 30 August 1982) was a minister, journalist and Welsh nationalist politician. Born in Pen-y-groes in Carmarthenshire, Morgan began preaching at an early age in the Baptist chapel in nearby Saron, in the ...

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