The return of the “Breiz Atao”.
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Author Archives: Rozenn
Archives
Various documents, press cuttings, interviews and collections of publications are in the process of being sorted.
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1975 Campaign poster and text for the release of Yann Fouéré, organised by family and friends, pages 1 to 7.
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9th Feb. 1976 – Strasbourg – Debate in the European Parliament on the detention without trial of Yann Fouéré and others in France, with interventions from Mr. Ellis,(in English) Mr. Scarascia Mugnozza, Mr. Giraud,(in French) Mr. Bourdellès,(in French) Mr. l’abbé Laudrin,(in French) Mr. Yeats,(in English) Mrs. Ewing (in English) and Mr. Espersen.
This Brochure ‘The European Parliament at work’, published in February1979 in London by the European Parliament and the Commission of European Communities, was distributed in some political circles and to the press. A few days later, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Francois Poncer had, first requested, and then demanded that it be withdrawn from circulation because of passages on pages 10 and 11 concerning Yann Fouéré.
Although 60,000 copies had been published with EEC funds, he succeeded in having the remaining copies burnt ( over 55,000 copies) owing to the fact that France at the time presided the Council of Ministers of the Community.
March ’79: Bulletin from the Bureau of Unrepresented European Nations regarding the above. ( Se also in Archives under Yann Fouéré, of the French site, articles that appeared in ‘Le Monde’).
Articles
1949 – Article by Llygad Llwchwr on ‘Dr.Moger and the Home Office: Facts from both sides’.
(continuationof 4th and 5th columns). October 1955 – Article ‘The West leads in gathering this harvest from the sea’ from ‘The Sunday Press’ on the Lobster and Crayfish business.
June 1956 – Article in the ‘Welsh Mail’ on ‘Welsh M.P. wins fight for Breton’.
This article reads from the first column down to the first column on the text below and so on to the second and third.
1962: Article on Yann Fouéré’s book, ‘La Bretagne écartelée’, by Dr.Noelle Davies in ‘The Welsh Nation’, under ‘The ordeal of Brittany’.
August 8th1967: Article ‘In exile with the MOB’, Mouvement for the Organisation of Brittany, in ‘The Sun’ newspaper. Malcom Stuart reports on the Bretons who are fighting from Ireland for their freedom.
1969: Article on ‘Future based on a hundred flags’, l’Europe aux cent drapeaux’ by Yann Fouéré(Presses d’Europe) reviewed by Dr.Noel Davies.
July 1970: Letter in the Scots Independent with paragraph(badly printed), on Yann Fouéré’s book ‘L’Europe aux cent drapeaux’.
1975: Article in the Financial Times, following the invitation of Yann Fouéré to Brussels, by a group of European federalists, to speak on European integration.
November 1975: Article on ‘Fighting to release a Breton’ in The Welsh Nation.
November 1975: Article on ‘Fouéré highlights regionalism’ by Walter Ellis in the Irish Times.
January 1976: Article on ‘The Fouéré Case’ in the Irish Times.
February 1976: Article on ‘Breton Nationalist freed in France’, by Richard Norton-Taylor in ‘The Guardian’.
February 1976: Article on ‘FF moves on human rights convention – Fouéré family attacks Gaullist ‘slander’, by Julien de Kassell in the Irish Press.
January 1976: Article on ‘Release my father plea…’ by Michael Hand in the Sunday Independent.
Januuary 1976: Article on ‘International affair of the jailed Breton’ by Tom Fallon in the Irish Press.
Easter 1976: Article on Yann Fouéré and Cleggan Lobster Fisheries in Clifden Parish Newsletter.
July 1976: Article on ‘French allow Fouéré home on temporary basis’, in ‘Irish Times’.
July 1976: Photo by Paddy Whelan of Yann Fouéré being greeted by his wife, Marie Magdeleine, and daughter Olwen, on his arrival at Dublin Airport, with article in Irish Times.
July 1976: Article on ‘French Leave’, in Irish Times.
July 1976: Interview of Yann Fouéré by Caroline Walsh of the Irish Times.
(continuation of 1st 2 columns) Nov. 1981: Article in ‘The Sunday Press’, Desmond Fennell on Sunday, on ‘Hume joins the Connemara school’ – school of thought on Europe, founded by Yann Fouéré in 1968 when he published his book, ‘Towards a federal Europe’, translated from ‘L’Europe aux cent drapeaux’.
Summer 1988 – Article in ‘CARN‘ by Y.Bouessel du Bourg on the publication of Yann Fouéré’s book ‘La Patrie Interdite’.
2001- Article in No.114 of ‘Carn’, a link between the Celtic Nations, following the publishing of his book ‘Europe! Nationalité bretonne…citoyen Francais?
2006: Short article on Yann Fouéré, in the book ‘European Free Alliance: Voice of the peoples of Europe, the 1st 25 yrs.’ (1981-2006).
July- Aug.-Sept.-2009: Article in the Flemish League magazine for third age. (Translation into English will be posted soon)
See also under ‘News’, and ‘Actualités’ on the French site, for the latest articles on Yann Fouéré’s 100th birthday.
Books by Yann Fouere
January 2015: Official Biography of Yann Fouéré in Breton, English and French
April 2011: ‘La Maison’ in Connemara – English translation 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.
See Update for more information on Yann Fouéré’s publication:-
” Yann Fouéré…des mots pour l’Avenir de La Bretagne “
Photo on front cover: 9th Dec. 1983 Yann Fouéré at the European Parliament in Brussels, during a meeting of the European Free Alliance (ALE).
e.mail:- yannfouere@gmail.com
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* A limited number of the following are available from L’Institut de Documentation Bretonne et Européenne de La Fondation Yann Fouéré – See at the end of ‘Livres’ on the French site for a more complete list, with prices, of the publications that are available.
1933 – Les Saints Bretons et leur oeuvre nationale – booklet published by l’Enseigne de l’Hermine, Dinard, (out of print).
1935 – Nous devons obtenir l’Enseignement du Breton – 30 pages, Conference given by Yann Fouéré at the Congrés de l’Union Régionaliste Bretonne in Lannion.
1938 – Enseigner le Breton, Exigence Bretonne * – brochure published by Ar Brezoneg er Skol, Rennes.
1939 – Les marchés d’approvisionement de la viande a Paris – theses, Imprimerie Francaise de Centralisation, Paris.
1946 – Booklet on ‘Breton Nationalism’, 85 pages – written by Yann Fouéré and translated by Hervé Le Helloco, for the Welsh Nationalist Party – Front cover designed by Dewi Prys – Preface by Gwynfor Evans. On the site under, Various Texts by Y.F.
1957 – De la Bretagne a la France et a l’Europe * – brochure published by C.O.B., Comité pour l’Organisation de la Bretagne, Lorient.
1962 and 1976 – La Bretagne écartelée * – published by Nouvelles Éd. Latines.
1968 and 1976 – L’Europe aux Cents Drapeaux – published by Presses d’Europe, Nice, and again in 2004 by Celtics Chadenn, Pordic.
December 2011: New edition published by IDBE/ Fondation Yann Fouéré.
1980 – English translation of the above under the title – Towards a Federal Europe* – published by Christopher Davies, Swansea.
Yann Fouéré believes that the “Third Europe” will only come into being, when the present sovereign nation-states have faded away and disappeared. These states should be split up into smaller regional units, bringing together ethnic groups such as the Scots, Bretons, Flemish or Basque. There can be no continental super-state in place of the present nation-states since that too would be prone to the abuse of power.Yann Fouèrè is calling for small free societies with equal rights, but indissolubly united through the federal link. He develops with formidable logic the argument for a Federal Europe.
1977 – En prison pour le FLB * – published by Nouvelles Éd. Latines.
October 2012: New edition of, ‘En prison pour le FLB’, the 3rd Volume of Yann Fouéré’s autobiography, published by IDBE/Fondation Yann Fouéré.
1977 – Histoire resumée du Mouvement Breton – published by Nature et Bretagne, and an updated edition in 2004 – by Celtics Chadenn, Pornic.
1979 – Ces droits que les autres ont, mais que nous n’avons pas…* – published for Les Cahiers de l’Avenir by Nature et Bretagne, Quimper.
1979 – L’Histoire du Quotidien “ La Bretagne”et les silences d’Henri Fréville * – published by Les Cahiers de l’Avenir, Saint Brieuc.
1982 – Les Régions d’Europe en quête d’un statut * – article in booklet published by Les Cahiers de l’Avenir of extracts from “ l’Autonomie” , Presses d’Europe, 1982.
1983 – Problémes Bretons du temps present * – booklet published for Les Cahiers de l’Avenir by Les Editions d’Organisation, Paris.
1987 – La Patrie Interdite, Histoire d’un Breton – published by France Empire, Paris, and in 2002 by Brittia, Plérin.
1995 – La Maison du Connemara – published by Coop-Breizh. (out of print).
November 2011: New editions of the 1st and 2nd Volumes of Yann Fouéré’s autobiography, published by IDBE/Fondation Yann Fouéré.
2000 – Europe! Nationalité Bretonne…Citoyen Francais? – published by Brittia, Plérin
*A limited number of copies available from L’Institut de Documentation Bretonne et Européenne de La Fondation Yann Fouéré.
e.mail: yannfouere@gmail.com
See our French site for more details on the above and on those that are available for purchase from the Institut de Documentation Bretonne et Européenne of the Fondation, including back numbers of the newspaper ‘L’Avenir de la Bretagne’ and of various periodicals such as ‘Al-Liam’, ‘CARN’ and ‘Imbourgh’.