ABSTRACT
Beginning with the fallout from the Burgos Process of 1970 and the related ‘internationalisation’ of ETA, Chapter 5 documents a myriad of radical Basque nationalist-Irish republican encounters and joint statements, as well as intense media speculation and state concerns around possible IRA-ETA cooperation. On the party-political front, it explores the genesis and development of Provisional Sinn Féin’s nexus with Euskal Iraultzarako Alderdia, and later, the emergence of the former’s relationship with Herri Bastasuna. Overall, in contrast to previous eras, several congruent factors in both cases served to ground what was a highly symmetrical decade of radical Basque nationalist-Irish republican relations built around a simple metanarrative of ‘armed struggle’ for ‘National Liberation’.
