y smotyn du is the homepage of Buenaventura Durruti with links to sections on his various eclectic interests.
Buenaventura Durruti freely admits to being an opinionated and angry older man: well, you’d be angry if you had been killed by friendly fire in Barcelona in 1936.
Buenaventura Durruti – despite the name – is Welsh and a Unitarian: he likes the cussedness implicit in the phrase.
The Black Spot, y Smotyn Du, is a corner of Ceredigion (the old county of Cardiganshire) in Wales which was, and is, a stronghold of Unitarianism. It was given the name, as an insult, by the Methodists when the Unitarians resolutely held to their Unitarianism and refused to be swept up in the tide of the Methodist Revival. We adopted it with pride: Dal dy Dir!
This website was created on 15 January 2007.