tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post116862965374684417..comments2024-03-24T08:26:00.732+00:00Comments on photopol: In defence of FroggyPólóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-61077315871729926072023-11-27T08:51:19.607+00:002023-11-27T08:51:19.607+00:00Bhíos ag teagmháil leo agus tuigim go bhfuil seans...Bhíos ag teagmháil leo agus tuigim go bhfuil seans maith go mbeidh sé ar an liosta san athbhliain.Pólónoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-74093961909174646292021-03-21T15:18:28.388+00:002021-03-21T15:18:28.388+00:00Beatha an suimiüil go deo cinnte. Chomh fada le se...Beatha an suimiüil go deo cinnte. Chomh fada le seo níl mórán scríofa faoi seachas na postanna blog agamsa agus an truailliú a deineadh air ar RTÉ in 2007. Tá mé féin ag tnúth le rud éigin substaintiúil a scrí fé amach an seo nuair a fhaighim caoi.<br /><br />Má tá tú ag iarraidh dul i dteagmháil leis an gclann, b’fheidir gur trín gcomhlacht is fearr san a dhéanamh.Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-46623998864545071542021-03-19T11:33:57.171+00:002021-03-19T11:33:57.171+00:00Ba bhreá liom alt nó rud éigin a scríobh faoi Fole...Ba bhreá liom alt nó rud éigin a scríobh faoi Folens - beatha an-suimiúil go deo a bhí aige. Táim tar éis Aiséirí Flándairs a ordú agus an leabhar staire 'Fugitive Ireland: European Minority Nationalists and Irish Political Asylum, 1937-2008'. Déarfainn go bhfédfadh ábhar leabhair a bheith i saol Folens don té a bheadh sásta tabhairt faoi.<br />Eoin O CAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03817897525351734736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-90219002081891655422021-03-18T16:27:34.237+00:002021-03-18T16:27:34.237+00:00Ba mhaith liom alt nó rud éigin a scríobh faoi - b...Ba mhaith liom alt nó rud éigin a scríobh faoi - beatha an-suimiúil go deo a bhí ann. Déarfainn go mbeadh ábhar leabhair ann fiú don té a bheadh sásta tabhairt faoi. Céard a cheapann tú? An eol duit ar choimeád sé dialann? An dóigh leaat go mbeadh a mhuintir sásta caint faoina shaol agus faoi na nithe conspóideacha a bhaineann leis?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03817897525351734736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-88921565363277409692021-03-16T11:54:27.521+00:002021-03-16T11:54:27.521+00:00Chuireas ceist chucu.Chuireas ceist chucu.Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-86121959563176057032021-03-16T11:45:32.135+00:002021-03-16T11:45:32.135+00:00Ní fheadar mé Eoin. Tá sé ait cinnte. Cé nár rugad...Ní fheadar mé Eoin. Tá sé ait cinnte. Cé nár rugadh in Éirinn é ba shaoránach Éireannach é i ndeire na Dála.Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-39421486512791718392021-03-16T11:22:49.608+00:002021-03-16T11:22:49.608+00:00An-suimiúil ar fad. An eol duit cén fáth nach bhfu...An-suimiúil ar fad. An eol duit cén fáth nach bhfuil cuntas ar a bheatha ar ainm.ie? Bhí baint go leor aige le saol na Gaeilge, chepfá, chun go mbeadh sé sin tuillte aige - leabhair i nGaeilge agus saothar ceannródaíoch ó thaobh fhoilsiú na dtéacsleabhar a raibh cuid mhaith iontu i ngaeilge, mura bhfuil dul amú orm. An é go bhfuil scéal a bheatha chomh conspóideach sin nach raibh lucht ainm.ie ag iarraidh tabhairt faoi? Tá cuntas air ar Dictionary of Irish Biogaphies.<br /><br />Eoin Ó CróinínAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03817897525351734736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-74988632052031355302010-11-24T10:56:07.054+00:002010-11-24T10:56:07.054+00:00Hi, well be sensible, well-all describedHi, well be sensible, well-all describedcialishttp://www.agir-galiza.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-36864556314856296802007-04-13T13:23:00.000+01:002007-04-13T13:23:00.000+01:00InfoRe: Hidden IRELANDTilefimsWithout PREJUDICEInf...Info<BR/>Re: Hidden IRELAND<BR/>Tilefims<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Without PREJUDICE<BR/>Information only<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Dear Mr Collin.<BR/><BR/>When I learned that Tilefilms did not play fair, I contacted a well known Weekly in Flanders.<BR/>I spoke also on the telephone with Mrs Julliet Folens Dublin.<BR/>Here in Belgium the reporter investigated the judicial position of the Folens family.<BR/>Legally it is as follows.<BR/>Folens had been tried by a court on the full evidence of his collaboration. He received then years. In spite of the fact that some say he appeared on a list of war criminals. That list must have been consulted at the day of his trail when, we must accept, he got a fair judgement. Why has he not be condemned to be executed?<BR/><BR/>He escaped from prison and in his absence, his layers obtained a reprieve and his sentence was reduced to 3 years. <BR/>(They could not let him entirely be innocent, he had served then already three years.)<BR/>He recovered his full civil rights and his Belgian pass and could travel unhindered to Belgium.<BR/><BR/>In essence he has been found innocent of all charges.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Seemingly there is a law, enacted in1964, in force that if one recovers all civil rights his name is eliminated from the judicial criminal register, cleared in fact, and that his past should NOT be held against him. <BR/><BR/>In fact Mrs Folens is in a position to claim damages from the Tilefilm company on these grounds in Belgium.<BR/><BR/>I am not a layer and have this only from the investigating party ( it will probably be mentioned in the papers) <BR/><BR/>I must add that I am very much disappointed; I expected a fair documentary. Instead they used the confessions of Staf van Velthoven as a means to slander the former President of Ireland. Obviously Tilefilms are not Irish people. <BR/>How could a true Irish person allow his Irish soil to be soiled by the Irish themselves.<BR/>Yours true fully<BR/>Alexander Colen<BR/>After all, I am still an Irish national.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-82988152277235763682007-04-12T12:59:00.000+01:002007-04-12T12:59:00.000+01:00I am reading here and there articles about the doc...I am reading here and there articles about the documentary - Hidden Ireland shown on Irish TV. <BR/> I must say that I am shocked by what I read. It becomes a real scandal involving the reputation of Ireland but more so the integrity of Mr. de Valera.<BR/>If he had any Irish pride That Cathal O’Shanon would’nt have done what he has done now.<BR/>Van Velthoven should have been stopped.<BR/> The case Folens is ludicrous. If both Van Velthoven and Folens had come at the time, 40 years ago, over to Belgium they would have been free men to go where they liked. <BR/>They could have lived quietly without being disturbed by there past. <BR/>Thousands of people all over Europe had run into trouble. England received the Estonians and Latvians who had done compulsory services in de Waffen SS, and English intelligence was well aware of that. Had they come to Ireland de Valera would have been forced to let them enter because they were fleeing from the Russians. Has Cathal that sleuth found that out yet? He hadn’t far to go, he could have interviewed hundred such persons in Britain.<BR/>I left Ireland for Belgium in 1967 because I had there been several times before, starting up a procedure to obtain a reprieve and knowing that I could do so as free man. Today I enjoy full civil rights and have a clean record. I mean, no criminal record whatsoever. <BR/>I think that it is improper that Irishmen should be soiling Irish soil and drag upright politicians such as de Valera down with themselves in the mud. <BR/><BR/>Cases like Menten had nothing to do with Ireland and the war. The case of the Croatian is understandable according to the circumstances. But building up a case against your own people by gathering dirt and insinuations that is incredible. <BR/><BR/>I do not know yet the full impact upon the public. I haven't read what Van Velthoven boasted about what Cathal 0’Shanon discovered,but both are a pain in the neck and irresponsible men. <BR/>To day all kinds of people without papers or identity are being received with open arms in Europe. How could you accuse now that de Valera and Berry merely applied international law in an neutral and semi independent Freestate?<BR/>Do you know that Flemings and Bretons openly living in Ireland did so as POLITICAL REFUGEES under the protection of the League of Nations, Geneva and the international red cross?<BR/> That we carried Nissen passes issued by the League of nations to prove that and that we travelled to England and the continent as such?<BR/>That the embassy knew we were here and why and what we had done?<BR/>That we from time to time contacted he embassy to settle things for wife and children?<BR/>That a meeting took place in Dublin of all Flemish refugees and the first secretary of the Belgian Embassy was there to discuss what we could done to ensure the education of our children,<BR/>But no. Grind axes. Read the news, my God how is it possible? <BR/><BR/>The whole affair is typical Irish joke but damaging for Ireland and the Irish people.<BR/>Was ever one of them evicted from the country? Yes there was one.<BR/>He was a freshly Frenchman ( maybe, worse, a Briton or a Breton, I never knew the difference, I fear..)<BR/>He was roaming the streets of Dublin in search of a lucrative occupation so he could keep his pants up.<BR/> He found the right job at a dimly lit photographers shop where he lowered his pants posing for French pictures.<BR/> You may remember the character in The Plough in the Stars where Sean O’Casey ( Casman was his name and not Irish) makes her say –‘I assure you, young fellow, there is not a single whore to be seen in the whole of Ireland’ <BR/>Well, in such a country any French picture would catch immediately the eye of any policeman, especially when it is on sale and prudently half hidden by the cabbages and carrots.<BR/>Our French model friend was called to the castle and told:’ Leave the country. You are not an asset to the country.(present tense)<BR/>His residence permit was withdrawn and the gardai told also other people:’ That man was no asset to the country!<BR/>That man got (pat tense) very upset by that and decided to improve his behaves.<BR/>Later it was rumoured that our man had gone to Belfast to observe the Sabbath there as was the custom in that strange country.<BR/>God save Ireland!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-1170768079883136292007-02-06T13:21:00.000+00:002007-02-06T13:21:00.000+00:00I wondered why the original taped interview had no...I wondered why the original taped interview had not been used at the time (1987) as the basis for a story, or flogged to RTE as was done recently. It is interesting to see the reasons given at the time by the then editor of the Sunday Tribune, Vincent Browne, for not using the material:<BR/><BR/> <I>" ... we have decided not to publish anything concerning your involvement in the Second World War, at present. This decision was taken on the following basis: that, given the absence of harder information concerning any impropriety it would be wrong to expose you to the turmoil that would inevitably ensue if we published the information which we presently have in our possession." </I><A HREF="http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1760075&issue_id=15151" REL="nofollow">Source</A><BR/><BR/> The only additional information available since then is the entry in the US/UK Crowcass manual listing Folens as an "interpreter" rather than a "translator" at the Sicherheitspolizei premises in Brussels. However Folens himself said that the part he worked in was "lectorale" which involved translation rather than interpretation. The dropping of a "reconstruction"/fabrication of an interrogation sequence from the transmitted programme speaks volumes in this regard.Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.com