Alan Griffin, who was born in Ennis, Co Clare in 1952 and died on December 5th in the Basque town of Astigarraga, made exceptionally important contributions to the traditional music of his adopted ...

I spent a number of days in the Basque Country last weekend. I was there to speak at a conference organised by Gure Esku, a Basque organisation similar to Ireland’s Future, of which I am a member.

ON the afternoon of last week’s ‘glorious’ Twelfth, I found myself on a guided cycle tour of the beautiful Basque city of Donostia San Sebastián, close to the French border in northwest Spain. The ...

ETA, the Basque terroristy group killed two policemen last week in a bombing in Majorca and also injured 60 people in a seperate bombing. Those of us from Irish America and Ireland can say: "There but ...

Basques will vote on Sunday in an election that could see the radical pro-independence left emerge as the primary force in the region as it seeks to shed its association with past separatist violence.

Go to the Basque Country of Spain and, linguistically, you feel you are entering not just another country but perhaps another continent. Familiar world languages—Spanish and French—suddenly give way ...