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Idris Davies

Died in 1953

Idris Davies was born in 1905 in a mining valley in south Wales, in a house where Welsh was spoken, and went down the pit at fourteen. He lost a finger there and spent seven years in the mine. The general strike of 1926 left him without work; he took up his studies again on his own, became a schoolteacher in England and wrote in English, a language he had learned only at school. He taught for fifteen years without ceasing to write, and died of cancer in 1953, aged forty-eight, without knowing that his verses would be sung.

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