Celtic languages and Basque

I usually read an interesting Basque weblog of a friend of mine titled Balbula. The web site is published in Blogger and the author is my pal Jesus Rubio. Rubio has written an excellent article about the languages of Europe and the main syntactic features of them. We do not have to forget that in Europe there are more languages than English, German, Spanish, Italian and French. The languages of less spoken territories and more spread ones have been drawn in the figure below, taken from his blog. Take a look at it and realize where are Irish and Basque. That must give strenght to encourage members of Cara to support our national languages. Click on the map to see clearly:

Celtic and folk music at Euskalduna Palace

I have posted a new article in the Spanish version of Cara about the next concerts of folk singers like Mary Black (Éire), Emily Smith (Alba) and Waterson-Carthy (UK). Take a look at it if you like Celtic and folk music. The concert costs 11€ and if you have the card called Club Lector 10 you can get a 20% discount.

Support us

Here you have "80×15 tiny buttons”, also known as “antipixel buttons”. These buttons can be located in your webpages just to say that you are proud to be a member of Cara Association or just to encourage Basque-Irish fraternity. If you have a website, put a button and a link to us (http://www.caralagun.org):

   

   

New blood in the board of directors

Here we are, old and new members of Cara, that is to say, blended blood in the same body. Rocco, Armand and others leave the board of directors and new blood is coming from this year on. Here you have the snapshot taken by the new president of the association. Cara is an excellent association thanks to the job done by Rocco, Mikel, Oscar, Eoin, Mella, Armand, Mike, Eamon, Juanjo and José. They all were the first members of this association and we must show them our gratitude. Thanks a lot. Before finishing this post, I would inform all members that in the next days we will see two new versions of this page in Basque and in Spanish. The last version in Gaelic will be available as soon as we can. The new members of the board of directors can send us a message by email so Séamus Pálás can collect all your email addresses.

The four regions of Ireland

Last week a friend of mine asked me about the counties or provinces of Éire. So I decided to write this short article to tell him that Ireland has four main counties:

• Ulster (North)
  
• Connacht or Connaught (West)
  
• Munster (South)
  
• Leinster (East)
  

He asked me also to tell him about the name of these counties in Irish or Gaelic. Therefore, I can tell you that the names of the four regions or "cúigí" (KOO-ig-ee) are:

• Cúige Connacht (KOO-ig-e KOHN-uhk*t), Connaught
• Cúige Mumhan (KOO-ig-e MOO-uhn), Munster
• Cúige Uladh (U-luh), Ulster
• Cúige Laighean (LEYE-uhn), Leinster

If you would like to know more about Ireland and Irish culture contact us leaving your question or comment in this new blog.

Annual assembly in Erandio

Cara members are going to meet in Erandio for the year assembly. It is a great opportunity to exhange ideas about the association and continue promoting Irish-Basque fraternity. Thanks to Rocco and all the members in charge of our association for the job they have done till now. The assembly will start at 20.00 pm in the town hall. You can go by car and there is a parking lot near the town hall, by bus or take the tube and reach Erandio station. Thanks a lot to the mayor of Erandio, i.e. Mikel, for allowing us to meet in this town next Thrusday. Therefore, we meet up again for the annual assembly. Séamus Pálás advice you to go smartly dressed, cause he is going to take some snapshots of the event. You all will be asked for permission to let Pálás to publish the best shots in this weblog.

Cara Association has a new site project

This could be the second interface of Cara. Cara is a Basque-Irish Association to promote cultural exchange between Irish and Basque people. This is our weblog. You can partipate in Cara's blog by dropping an email to the webmaster. You will receive a password for blogging. It is so easy to involve in our projects. Be part of our association and promote relationship between our two countries.