I was sent a link to this site, http://hendaye.over-blog.net/, which has a number of videos of the ocean and more in the Basque Country. It is in French, so I don’t understand much of what is written, but I thought people might enjoy it.
About 6 years ago, Egunkaria, then the only daily newspaper published fully in Basque, was shut down on suspicions of ties to terrorists. Between then and now, no trials had occurred and it was thought that essentially the matter had been dropped. However, now, 6 years later, those who worked at Egunkaria are indeed being […]
Delphine Pontvieux, a member of the forum, has just released her novel ETA: Estimated Time of Arrest… WRONG PLACE… After participating in a pro-separatist march that turned violent in January of 1992, 21-year-old Lorenzo Lartaun Izcoa is wrongly charged with the fatal bombing of a police station in his home town. Irun is a small […]
Jose Antonio Alcayaga III just posted this link on Facebook and it seemed like a great one to share. Badok has a relatively large selection of Basque music available for online listening and I understand that songs can be downloaded in mp3 format. This seems like a great way to explore Basque music. It looks […]
Pedro Oiarzabal, a newly minted researcher at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, has spent his young career focused on issues of Basque identity around the world. His newest book is Gardeners of Identity: Basques in the San Francisco Bay Area, published by the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. (Incidentally, […]
Florence Destin wrote to tell me about the clothing company 64. 64 is the region number of the Atlantic Pyrenees department in southwest France. Their clothing features designs that emphasize those values traditionally associated with the Basques — food, sports, and more. The brand is well known within France, but the company is hoping to […]
Here are a few links I’ve run across that I thought were worth sharing. Pelota is immensely popular in Euskal Herria. Most evenings I was there, a match was being shown on the TVs of most bars. Even though cesta punta — jai alai to the rest of the world — is the most flashy […]
Koldo San Sebastian is a journalist and writer who has spent his career working in various media on themes of Basque history, including a television documentary on the Spanish Civil War in Euskadi, a book on the history of the Basque Nationalist Party, and another on the Basque exile in America. Koldo is currently writing […]
Miguel Ocamica, the son of Ramon, a good friend of my dad’s who was one of the chorizo crew I posted about a while back, is trying to gather the Ocamicas of the world together. The goal is to establish a family tree of some sort between all the Ocamicas of the world. To facilitate […]
To Basques in the US, Nancy Zubiri is well known. Author of A Travel Guide to Basque America, there is probably no one who knows better both the current landscape of Basque America or how that landscape came to be. Thus, it is very fitting that Nancy has just launched a new project, an online […]
