January 2015: Official Biography of Yann Fouéré in Breton, English and French.
October 2012: New French edition of, ‘En prison pour le FLB’, the 3rd volume of Yann Fouéré’s autobiography, published by IDBE/Fondation Yann Fouéré.
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December 2011: New French edition of ‘L’Europe aux cent drapeaux’, published by IDBE/Fondation Yann Fouéré – see French site for more details.
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November 2011: New French editions of the 1st and 2nd Volumes of Yann Fouéré’s autobiography, published by IDBE/Fondation Yann Fouéré – see French site for more details.
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October 2011: See under ‘News’, and on the French site ‘Actualités’ and ‘Y.F.Nécrologies’ for links and Obtituaries for Yann Fouéré.
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April 2011: ‘La Maison’ in Connemara – English translation just published by Oldchapel Press, Oldchapel, Oughterard, Co.Galway, Republic of Ireland – www.oldchapelpress.net
Born in 1910, the author of this book was Founder President of ‘Ar Brezhoneg er Skol’, the Union for the teaching of Breton in schools, and Vice President of the ‘Union Régionaliste Bretonne’ in the 1930’s.
Then secretary-general of the Comité Consultatif de Bretagne, and Editor-Political director of two Breton daily newspapers, ‘La Bretagne’, and later ‘L’Avenir de La Bretagne’. He was forced into exile following political events that marked the end of the Second World War, and found refuge first in Wales and then in Ireland. He describes the numerous adventures that led him from the country of the Red Dragon to that of the Golden Harp, and his role as co-founder of the ‘Celtic League’ in 1961.
Finally settling in Connemara, at the extreme west of Ireland, battered by the fierce Atlantic storms, he describes the magnificent scenery, and the unique and rather unusual characters attracted by this remote corner of the world. Developing a lobster and crayfish business, exporting to the continent, while building a house for his family were major challenges that tested the wills of the weather and the local environment. In both Wales and Ireland, he integrated into the local communities, in his descriptions of which, readers will make unexpected discoveries. In the late fifties, undaunted, he resumed his Breton, European and International activities – co-founding the MOB, ‘Movement for the Organisation of Brittany’, and the European Federalist Party in France, as well as representing Brittany for the setting up of the ‘Bureau of Unrepresented Nations’ in Brussels and the ‘Federal Union of European Nationalities’.
‘La Maison’ in Connemara is the second volume of Yann Fouéré’s memoirs. It is a true novel, just like the first volume La Patrie Interdite, and reads like one. But it is also a fundamental document on a part of history that is still misunderstood.
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See under ‘News’, and ‘Actualités’ on the French site, for the latest articles on Yann Fouéré’s 100th birthday.
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See on the French site under ‘Nouveautés’ for recent articles on the following publication.
Click on the link below for the Interview published in November 2008 by Agence Bretagne Press, and click on the relevant flag at the end of the article for the English and German versions. The full text of the Flemish version is on the French site under ‘Interviews’.
http://www.abp.bzh/fetch.php?id=12764
«Yann Fouéré,…des mots pour L’Avenir de la Bretagne »
Biographie (30 pages avec photos) et sélection de textes (1958-1975)
Photo on front cover: 9th Dec.1983 Yann Fouéré at the European Parliament in Brussels, during a meeting of the European Free Alliance (ALE)
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