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ARTICLES WRITTEN FOR THE ‘IRISH INDEPENDENT’ , under the section ‘WORLD SPOTLIGHT’, and ‘THE STANDARD’ newspapers, BY YANN FOUÉRÉ, USING THE PSEUDONYMS OF JEAN BASQUIN,  IANN TALHOUARN and JEAN LEBRETON.

 12th June 1948: on ‘Plan for Central European Federation’.

 26th July 1948: on ‘Way of the Wends and their Future’.

 23rd August 1948: on ‘Red Intrigues in Korea’.

 22nd October 1948: on ‘Rocky and Uninhabited, two Tiny Islands Are, Nevertheless, the Subjects of An International Dispute’.

 November 1948: on ‘A French-speaking colony in Italy’.

 29th November 1948: on ‘Peace-or-War?, How to Stop The Russians’.

 17th December 1948: on ‘Links with Ireland, Another Charles de Gaulle’.

 24th January 1949: on ‘China’s Red Leader’.

 25th February 1949: on ‘New Aspect of The Communists’ War on The Church’.

 23rd March 1949: on ‘French Catholics Fight for their Schools’.

 30th May 1949: on ‘Europe’s Minority Problems’.

 15th June 1949: on ‘The Language Problem in India’.

 5th July 1949: on ‘Problem of Danes in Schleswig-Holstein’.

 July 1949: on ‘Slovakia’s Fight For Freedom’.

 4th August 1949: Obituary of ‘Francois Vallée, Breton Replica of Douglas Hyde’.

 10th August 1949: on ‘Where the Council of Europe meets’.

 23rd August 1949: on ‘The Fight for the Breton Language’.

 20th September 1949: on ‘Behind-the-scenes dispute over Saar’.

 25th October 1949: on ‘The Bandit King of Sicily’.

 4th November 1949: tributes to the memories of Ernest E. Joynt and Art O’Brien – ‘Two Irishmen Who Are Remembered in Brittany’.

 19th November 1949: on ‘Albania’s Stormy Past And Uncertain Future’.

 8th December 1949: on ‘Monaco’s New Ruler’.

 14th January 1950: on ‘A Versailles Conference – Rights of “Small Nations” Stated’.

 26th January 1950: on ‘Czech War on The Church Follows An Old Pattern’.

 13th March 1950: on ‘The Bretons Honour St.Patrick Too’.

 25th March 1950: on ‘Problems Facing White Empires In Dark Continent’.

 19th May 1950: on ‘Is More Trouble Brewing In Algeria’.

 23rd June 1950: 0n ‘Indonesia’s Language’.

  12th July 1950: on ‘St.Columbanus – Ireland and France Linked in Tribute’.

 18th July 1950: on ‘Basque Treaty Links Spain And France’.

 8th August 1950: on ‘An Old Breton Festival’.

 31st August 1950: on ‘The Celts Meet In Cornwall’.

 5th January 1951: on ‘Historic Breton Abbey To Be Rebuilt’.

 24th January 1951: on a letter to Jean Basquin from behing the Iron Curtain raises the question of the ‘Fate Of Crown Of St.Stephen’.

 21st July 1950: Article in ‘The Standard’ newspaper, by a Special Correspondent, on ‘Devotion to Saint Anne – a Striking Feature of Catholic Life in Brittany’.

   26th January 1951: Article in ‘The Standard’, by Jean Lebreton, on  ’Problems Of The Breton Language’.

 11th December 1953: Jean Basquin traces the career of Father Yann Perrot, a French priest who was murdered just ten years ago this week . ‘A Breton Patriot’.

On the French site, under Articles par Y.F. 1950 – 1957, you will find more interesting articles on life in Ireland by Yann Fouéré, under the pseudonym of Jean Roberts, written in French, as special correspondent in Ireland for the Belgian newspapers, ‘Vers l’Avenir de Namur’ and ‘Le Courier de l’Escaut’