A CHAIR won by the late poet Dic Jones in the 100th Patagonian Eisteddfod is set to return to its homeland.

The chair was won in 1965, by Dic, who lived in Blaennanerch.

But he and his wife Jean had no idea how to bring it back to Ceredigion.

Two years later in 1967, a woman from North Wales was on holiday in Patagonia in 1967 and organised for the chair to get back to Ceredigion.

Jean said: “I don’t know how Dic became aware of the subjects for the chair, but he tried and won. There was a prize of thousands of pesos so we thought we’d hit the big time but it actually wasn’t much once the money was converted.”

The chair was taken back by boat to Liverpool then by train to Aberystwyth and it finally arrived back in Blaenannerch by lorry.

“Some very nice stories have come to light about its journey now. The captain happened to be Welsh so instead of the chair being put in the hold, it was put in the first class hold. When it got to Liverpool the North Walian woman was lucky again and found a Welshman on the train,” said Jean.

“The chair eventually arrived in a GWR lorry on the yard of our house, we didn’t know it was arriving and it all happened on my daughter’s seventh birthday.

“We were going out to buy a budgie for her birthday so we had tantrums that we couldn’t go.”

Former Archdruid Dic and his wife went to Patagonia in 2008, where in Gaiman, Dic volunteered to take the chair to the museum.

Unfortunately, Dic became ill shortly afterwards and passed way in 2009, never getting to see the chair returned.

As much as Jean and the community tried, they failed to get the chair back to Patagonia for it’s 150th anniversary last year.

“Emyr Penlan rang me one day and he said Jean what is going on about this chair going back to Patagonia. Well I said don’t talk to me about it I’m fed up with it but he said he’d try and I thought well pigs might fly,” explained Jean.

Emyr got David Gravell, the car dealer in Kidwelly to sponsor the journey which will begin todayon Tuesday, April 12.

Jean will be making the journey to Patagonia and a film about the chair's journey is set to appear on S4C.

“Around here it is close to people’s hearts and I tell you what I never thought twice about the chair but now it’s going I think I will miss it,” said Jean.