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An homage and recognition of the Basque contribution to the “cowboy...

Bertsolariak at the National Basque Festival in Elko. Photo by Meg Glaser.
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Upgrade:  List of participants. BASQUE, BASQUE-AMERICAN and OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS At the end of January 2018, the 34th Annual...

The survival of the Basque language: can it be explained by...

Restos arqueológicos excavados en Portugal, de los cuales los investigadores han extraído ADN (Rui Parreira)
This article was translated by John R. Bopp This is what was insinuated by the authors of a study published on Thursday in PLOS Genetics and...

Iruña/Pamplona 2017: “We are Basque”, Gora San Fermin! (video)

plaza de toros de Iruña "Gu euskaldunak gara"
This article was translated by John R. Bopp As always happens, Pamplona’s San Fermín festival has taken over the international media.  Every year we get the...

Gernika, the occupation of Bilbao, the Exile, and the 21st Century...

Entrada de las tropas rebeldes en Bilbao y su "recibimiento"
  This article was translated by John R. Bopp We’ve been sitting on this story for a while.  It’s about an article by Julian Zabalbeascoa, from Los...

A look back at what travelers thought of the Basque Country...

This article was translated by John R. Bopp We’re going to make another exception to our rule of only looking at non-local media at our blog...

The British sailors who broke the Francoist blockade on Bilbao

El Backworth. El buque que eligió the Spanish Relief Fund (creada en Gran Bretaña para proporcionar ayuda humanitaria) para enviar alimentos y suministros médicos a Bilbao.
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Our fourth article in a series dedicated to publications in the Tyne & Wear Museum’s blog about the...

French public television pays homage to Eresoinka this Sunday

This article was translated by John R. Bopp How excited are we!  This is a year of commemorations.  Most of them are due to the disasters...

The Gernika 80 Committee: remembering the Bombing, with a Tree of...

Retoño del Árbol de Gernika plantado en histórico cementerio Glasnevin de Dublín
  This article was translated by John R. Bopp Over the last few months, a group of people in Dublin have gotten together to organize the Gernika...

George L. Steer: a chronicle about the journalist who told the...

George Steer en el aeródromo de East London el 2 de noviembre de 1938
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Today, on the 80th anniversary of the Bombing of Guernica, we’re paying tribute to the journalist who most...

Jack Prendergast: the Irishman who fought for the Basque Country in...

This article was translated by John R. Bopp The Irish daily The Irish Times has just published an article this afternoon that tells the story of...