Literary Figures
Three notable Welsh poets have connections with the Ceiriog Valley: John Hughes (1832 – 1887) was born on a farm near Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog; Huw Morus (1622 – 1709) was born and lived near Pandy in the Ceiriog Valley; and Rev. Robert Elis (1812 – 1875) was a Baptist minister in Glyn Ceiriog from 1838 until 1840. (Hughes took the middle name Ceiriog and also used it as his bardic name; Morus's bardic name was Eos Ceiriog – the Nightingale of Ceiriog; and Elis was better known by his bardic name, Cynddelw.) The Ceiriog Memorial Institute in the village of Glyn Ceiriog was built as a memorial to them all, and contains stained glass windows dedicated to each of their memories.
The Welsh language novelist Islwyn Ffowc Elis was born in Wrexham, but spent most of his formative childhood years on a hill farm in the Ceiriog Valley.
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