Faculty and Staff
Xabier Irujo
Assistant Professor
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Xabier Irujo was born in exile in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1967. He has three master’s degrees from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).
Education
Ph.D. in history at the State University of Navarre (February 2004) with the Thesis “Basque exile in Uruguay (1943-1955)” (ISBN 84-777-281-9).
Bachelor of Arts degree with a Major in Romance Languages and Literature and a Master of Arts degree in Romance Philology (Linguistics) (1992).
Bachelor of Arts degree with a Major in European History and a Master of Arts degree in European Political History (1994).
Bachelor of Arts degree with a Major in Philosophy and a Master of Arts degree in Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Science (1998).
He was given for seven consecutive years the Award by the Social Council of the UNED for having credited the best academic files at university between 1993 and 2000. He has two literary awards for writing poetry and several scholarships.
He was the Head of the Basque Studies Program at Boise State University (Idaho) in 2004-2005 and currently he is an assistant professor at the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Research Interests
Basque Politics and Contemporary Basque Political Philosophy: History of the Basque law and contemporary political systems in the Basque Country.
Contemporary History of the Basque Country: the Basque political exile (1937-1960) and the organization network and the political and cultural activity of the Basque Government in America.
Publications
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On Basque Politics. Conversations with Pete Cenarrusa, EURI, Brussels, 2009. ISBN: 978-84-613-3965-5 |
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Itzulpena erbestean, Utriusque Vasconiae, Donostia/San Sebastián, 2009. ISBN: 978-84-936384-7-4 |
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Homo Spelens, Utriusque Vasconiae, Donostia/San Sebastián, 2009. ISBN: 978-84-937213-0-5 |
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Un nuevo treinta y uno. Ideología y estrategia del Gobierno de Euzkadi durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial a través de la correspondencia de José Antonio Aguirre y Manuel Irujo, Fundación Sabino Arana, Bilbo/Bilbao, 2007. ISBN: 978-84-88379-74-0. |
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La Sociedad de Confraternidad Vasca Euskal Erria de Montevideo, (History of the Euskal Erria Basque Center in Montevideo), Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno Vasco, Gasteiz/Vitoria, 2007. ISBN: 978-84-457-2557-3. |
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La hora vasca del Uruguay. Génesis y desarrollo del nacionalismo vasco en Uruguay (1825-1960), Sociedad de Confraternidad Vasca Euskal Erria, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2006. ISBN 9974-96-095-9 |
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Itsaso aurrean, (Poems of the Basque exile in America by Bingen Ametzaga), Susa, Zarautz, 2006. ISBN 84-95511-83-5. |
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Euskal erbeste politikoa Uruguain (1943-1955). Eusko jaurlaritzaren administrazioa eta kanpo ekintza atzerrian (Administration and foreign policy of the Basque government in America during the Franco years),IVAP Institute for Basque Administration of the Basque Government, Oñati, 2005. ISBN 84-7777-281-9. |
Selected Articles
“Euskal erbestea eta erbesteak”, Guregandik. Revista del Centro de Estudios Arturo Campion, No 4, 2008. ISSN 1850-1303, Laprida (Argentina), May 2008.
“The Biarritz American University”, In, Exilio y Universidad (1936-1955), Saturraran, Donostia, 2008. ISBN 978-84-934455-5-3.
“LUL Lesser Used Languages”, WLT World Literature Today, pp 44-45, Volume 81, Number 5, University of Oklahoma, September-October 2007.
“Erbesteko Eusko Jaurlaritzak Parisko Marceau kaleko egoitzan finkatutako politika kulturaleko ildo nagusiak (1938-1940)”. In, Jose Antonio Agirre: proiektu kultural bat = José Antonio Agirre: un proyecto cultural, pp. 77-91, Saturraran, Donostia, 2007. ISBN: 978-84-934455-1-5.
“Erbestearen zenbait alderdi soziologiko. Montevideoko atzerriko egunaria (1943-1956)”, (Sociological profile of the Basque Diaspora), Los hijos del exilio vasco: arraigo y desarraigo, Ascunce, José Ángel (coordinator), Saturraran, pp. 89-142, Astigarraga, 2005.
On Basque Politics. Conversations with Pete Cenarrusa
Author: Xabier Irujo Ametzaga
Publisher: European Research Institute (EURI)
Place and year of publication: Brussels, 2009
Language: English
Pages: 280
Size: 81/2 x 53/4 inches
ISBN: 978-84-613-3965-5
Synopsis:
“The Basque problem” has existed for those who have ruled the Iberian Peninsula since the days before Spain was a nation. Often described as the oldest homogeneous racial group in Europe, the Basques are closely knit and have resisted amalgamation since the first Roman legions descended upon them. They waited until the 11th century to embrace the “foreign” influence of Christianity, but when they did, they produced such illustrious Christians as St. Francis Xavier and St. Ignatius of Loyola.
(Dickson, Paul A., “Oppression in Spain”, Washington Post, August 3, 1969. In, Church, Frank, “The Brave Spirit of the Basques and the Tyranny of their Persecutors.” In, Congressional Records. Proceedings and Debates of the 91st Congress, First Session, Vol. 115, No 135, Washington, Friday, August 8, 1969).
This book represents an up-to-date account of the most striking aspects of Contemporary Basque Politics, from the bombing of Gernika to the last elections in 2009. While being an overview, the book provides many interesting details and little known facts of the American perspective regarding the Basque political issue and its impact in Idaho, land of grace and hope for thousands of Basque immigrants during the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.
Pete T. Cenarrusa has served for fifty-two years in the State of Idaho, nine terms at the House of Representatives (1950-1967), in 1963, 1965 and 1967 as a Speaker of the House, and six terms as Secretary of State (1967-2002) for the Republican Party.
Itzulpena erbestean
Author: Xabier Irujo Ametzaga
Publisher: Utriusque Vasconiae
Place and year of publication: Donostia, 2009
Language: Basque
Pages: 176
Size: 81/2 x 53/4 inches
ISBN: 978-84-936384-7-4
Synopsis:
The Fascist dictatorship of generals Primo de Rivera (1923-1931) and General Francisco Franco (1936-1975) intensified the political prohibition and social exclusion of the Basque language. The Basque language was said to be useful only for domestic use. In the American exile, a group of Basque writers worked hard in the translation of classics into Basque as a way of demonstrating that what classic writers as Shakespeare, Virgil or Homer had written in English, Latin or Greek could equally be expressed in Basque. In addition, it has been said that translating is the best way of reading for the translation of a literary text imposes a double semantic and syntactic reading. In this sense, translation supposed a matchless frame to approach the difficult task of normalizing the language, of creating a unified and standard Basque language.
Homo Spelens
Author: Xabier Irujo Ametzaga
Publisher: Utriusque Vasconiae
Place and year of publication: Donostia, 2009
Language: Basque
Pages: 224
Size: 81/2 x 53/4 inches
ISBN: 978-84-937213-0-5
Synopsis:
In Tremendous Trifles, G. K. Chesterton wrote how when he was leaving for a holiday from Battersea a friend asked him where he was going. Chesterton replied: I am going to Battersea, to Battersea via Paris, Belfort, Heidelberg, and Frankfort. […] I cannot see any Battersea here; I cannot see any London or any England. I cannot see that door. I cannot see that chair because a cloud of sleep and custom has come across my eyes. The only way to get back to them is to go somewhere else; and that is the real object of travel and the real pleasure of holidays. Homo Spelens is the biography of Bingen Ametzaga Aresti (1901-1969), a Basque political exiled person in America: Secretary of primary education of the Basque Government during the War of 1936, Head of the Basque Secret Services in Uruguay during WWII, author of 7 books, nearly 500 articles and more than 60 translation works from English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Classic Greek and Latin into Basque.
La Sociedad de Confraternidad Vasca Euskal Erria de Montevideo
Authors: Xabier Irujo Ametzaga & Alberto Irigoyen Artetxe
Publisher: Eusko Jaurlaritzaren Argitalpen Zerbitzu Nagusia
Place and year of publication: Gasteiz/Vitoria, 2007
Language: Spanish
Pages: 374
Size: 10 x 7 inches
ISBN: 978-84-457-2557-3
Un nuevo treinta y uno. Ideología y estrategia del Gobierno de Euzkadi durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial a través de la correspondencia de José Antonio Aguirre y Manuel Irujo
Author: Iñaki Goiogana & Xabier Irujo Ametzaga & Josu Legarreta
Publisher: Sabino Arana Fundazioa
Place and year of publication: Bilbo/Bilbao, 2007
Language: Spanish
Pages: 952
Size: 93/4 x 7 inches
ISBN: 978-84-88379-74-0
La hora vasca del Uruguay. Génesis y desarrollo del nacionalismo vasco en Uruguay (1825-1960)
Author: Xabier Irujo Ametzaga & Alberto Irigoyen Artetxe
Publisher: Institución de Confraternidad Vasca Euskal Erria
Place and year of publication: Montevideo, 2006
Language: Spanish
Pages: 420
Size: 91/2 x 61/2 inches
ISBN: 9974-96-095-9
Itsaso aurrean
Author: Xabier Irujo Ametzaga
Publisher: Susa Liburuak
Place and year of publication: Zarautz, 2006
Language: Basque
Pages: 160
Size: 81/2 x 61/4 inches
ISBN: 84-95511-83-5
Euskal erbeste politikoa Uruguain (1943-1955). Eusko jaurlaritzaren administrazioa eta kanpo ekintza atzerrian
Author: Xabier Irujo Ametzaga
Publisher: Herri Arduralaritzaren Euskal Erakundea (HAAEA/IVAP)
Place and year of publication: Oñati, 2005
Language: Basque
Pages: 616
Size: 91/4 x 61/2 inches
ISBN: 84-7777-281-9