Folens of Tallaght- A wily fox, publisher and Nazi collaborator
Albert Joseph Marcel Folens Folens One of the later and more interesting companies to relocate to Tallaght as part of its rapid industrial and commercial development in the 1970s was Folens Publishers in 1974. The previous year, Folens began developing a printing works in a 42,000 Sq ft purpose built factory, constructed on a 4.5 acre site on the Airton Road, Tallaght, at a cost of £250,000. The land had previously been part of the Urney complex, and the development of Airton Road as a business park had been part of the vision of Redmond Gallagher, son and heir of Urney Chocolates. In the summer of 1974, Folens moved their operations from their six year old factory in John F. Kennedy Drive on the Naas Road to Airton Road in Tallaght. For the next few decades, school children throughout Ireland would come to know of Tallaght, as the place from which many of their school text books came. But few school children or teachers, knew that their history book, and many others, was publis