Eileen Beasley

Eileen Beasley was a Welsh teacher who, along with her husband Trefor, conducted a campaign of civil disobedience in the 1950s against the Rural District Council of Llanelly in a demand for council rate bills in the Welsh language. Her stand has led Welsh language campaigners to describe her as the mother of direct action and her protest helped to lead to the creation of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg.

Catherine Eileen James was born in 1921. She attended University College Cardiff and became a teacher. She met Trefor Beasley at Plaid Cymru gatherings and they were married onJuly 1951. The couple moved to Llangennech near Llanelli in 1952.

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