Aled Eirug is a journalist and broadcaster, formerly Head of News and Current Affairs for BBC Wales and constitutional adviser to the National Assembly for Wales.

• List of IllustrationsForewordChapter One - Early YearsChapter Two – University DaysChapter Three – ‘A priest who has lost his faith’Chapter Four - After the referendum – heading LeftChapter Five – The House of Lords – the Place of LanguageChapter Six – The Birth of the National Assembly for WalesChapter Seven – Dissent and Departure – leaving Plaid Cymru

For anyone wanting to understand this most enigmatic and apparently contradictory of politicians, Aled Eirug is the perfect guide. His biography of Dafydd Elis-Thomas brings us closer to a man whose diverse influences helped him create a rich form of Welsh internationalism that renders the frequently uttered jibe œnarrow separatist laughably inadequate. In a political era that veers between technocratic tedium and apocalyptic anxiety, Elis-Thomas was never boring. Nor is this book.

Aled Eirug is a journalist and broadcaster, formerly Head of News and Current Affairs for BBC Wales and constitutional adviser to the National Assembly for Wales.

• List of IllustrationsForewordChapter One - Early YearsChapter Two – University DaysChapter Three – ‘A priest who has lost his faith’Chapter Four - After the referendum – heading LeftChapter Five – The House of Lords – the Place of LanguageChapter Six – The Birth of the National Assembly for WalesChapter Seven – Dissent and Departure – leaving Plaid Cymru

For anyone wanting to understand this most enigmatic and apparently contradictory of politicians, Aled Eirug is the perfect guide. His biography of Dafydd Elis-Thomas brings us closer to a man whose diverse influences helped him create a rich form of Welsh internationalism that renders the frequently uttered jibe œnarrow separatist laughably inadequate. In a political era that veers between technocratic tedium and apocalyptic anxiety, Elis-Thomas was never boring. Nor is this book.

Aled Eirug is a journalist and broadcaster, formerly Head of News and Current Affairs for BBC Wales and constitutional adviser to the National Assembly for Wales.

• List of IllustrationsForewordChapter One - Early YearsChapter Two – University DaysChapter Three – ‘A priest who has lost his faith’Chapter Four - After the referendum – heading LeftChapter Five – The House of Lords – the Place of LanguageChapter Six – The Birth of the National Assembly for WalesChapter Seven – Dissent and Departure – leaving Plaid Cymru

For anyone wanting to understand this most enigmatic and apparently contradictory of politicians, Aled Eirug is the perfect guide. His biography of Dafydd Elis-Thomas brings us closer to a man whose diverse influences helped him create a rich form of Welsh internationalism that renders the frequently uttered jibe œnarrow separatist laughably inadequate. In a political era that veers between technocratic tedium and apocalyptic anxiety, Elis-Thomas was never boring. Nor is this book.