A timely piece of work, scrupulous in endorsing only facts and analyses for which the author can find first-hand evidence
Radical Basque Nationalist-Irish Republican Relations: A History review: A well-researched, illuminating study
Radical Basque Nationalist-Irish Republican Relations: A History review: A well-researched, illuminating studyTo Run the World by Sergey Radchenko: New insights on USSR’s approach to the Cold WarShe had, it turned out, read an essay by a founder of Eta, the group committed to Basque independence through “armed struggle”. He said that Ireland was “a bad mirror” for her homeland.
Cullen’s book is a well-researched, detailed, readable and illuminating study of how radical Basque and Irish nationalists have read each other’s narratives and attempted to apply them to their own strategies. It is an excellent introduction to this complex maze of ideological, political and – as he rightly emphases – personal relationships over 150 years.
Cullen concentrates instead on the politics of these clandestine groups and their public surrogates and apologists. He engagingly fleshes out key but enigmatic and little-known figures such as Ambrose Martin and Eli Gallastegi, acting almost autonomously on behalf of, respectively, Irish and Basque radicals, in the early to mid-20th century.
Cullen’s stress on Sinn Féin is entirely appropriate to his declared field of study. But, to my mind, it has the inadvertent effect of overstating the Irish influence on the Basques and understating the big contribution of the South African ANC lawyer Brian Currin to bringing an end to that conflict.
My only other caveat is that Routledge, which wants an extortionate £135 for a hardcover version, has served the author poorly with some very careless copyediting.
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