‘Ffair Cymru’

Conversations Across Contradictions in Swansea

Alanna Byrne

It is well documented that the beloved Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas had conflicting feelings about the town of his birth, Swansea.

Famously referring to his post-industrial coastal home in South West Wales as an “ugly, lovely town”, many might argue that Thomas’ depiction still rings true today.

Swansea has always been a place of contradictions.