Ediciones Trea has published Un século de nacións. Galicia, Euskadi e Catalunya , a collective volume edited by Lourenzo Fernández Prieto and Roque Sanfiz Arias, researchers affiliated with HISTAGRA and CISPAC. The volume brings together the papers and discussions from the 7th Galeusca-Historia Congress, held in Santiago de Compostela on 5 and 6 October. The event was organised by the HISTAGRA research group and CISPAC, with funding from the Provincial Council of A Coruña.
The publication takes as its starting point the century that has passed since the signing of the first Galeusca pact in 1923. It examines the relationships, differences and shared experiences of Galicia, the Basque Country and Catalonia, adopting a plural perspective connected to wider European and international contexts.
The book is divided into two main sections. The first examines nations and Galeuscan political proposals through topics such as the historical development of Galeusca, the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, agrarian thought, the European dimension of nationalism, the journalism of Antón Villar Ponte, fiscal resources and Galician-language cultural media. The second focuses on the memory of uncomfortable pasts and conflicts, including research on migration and labour protests, Francoist repression, sites of memory associated with Alexandre Bóveda and Lluís Companys, language normalisation, the As Encrobas conflict, public memory policies, political violence in the Basque Country and the myths constructed around Spain’s Transition to democracy.
CISPAC is represented both in the editing of the volume and in several of its contributions. Lourenzo Fernández Prieto wrote the foreword; Marco Antonio Álvarez Sánchez examines rural debt in Galeuscan thought; Roque Sanfiz Arias and David Miguel Rodríguez Martínez analyse the development and challenges of Galician-language cultural media over the past century; and David Fontán Bestilleiro explores the historical, community and memorial dimensions of the As Encrobas conflict.
The epilogue, written by Montserrat Duch Plana, broadens the discussion of how societies confront the consequences of the coup d’état, the war and the dictatorship. The author proposes moving beyond the notion of a merely “uncomfortable” past in order to address its traumatic dimension, while advocating a form of public history capable of building a plural narrative that helps explain the political and plurinational dimensions of these processes.