Peter Sheridan
1792–1844
Irish link: Documented
The Cavan-born sheep pioneer of the 1820s, the largest employer of early Irish labourers, who owned some 40,000 sheep when he died.
- Land and business
Sheep, wool and land
6 people
The pioneers of the sheep boom and the families whose names are on the towns, told with the fortunes and the failures together.
Thomas Armstrong
1797–1875
Irish link: DocumentedThe Offaly-born merchant and banker who recruited the first Westmeath–Longford emigrants in 1826 and became Fr Fahy's banker and landlord.
- Land and business
John James Murphy
1822–1909
Irish link: DocumentedThe Kilrane emigrant of 1844 who landed with £1, dug ditches at Chascomús and died owning two estancias: the arc of the sheep boom in one life.
- Land and business
John Brabazon
Irish link: DocumentedThe Westmeath Protestant whose camp journal is the earliest Irish voice from the sheep frontier, recording faction fights, drink and murder.
- Land and business
- Letters and journalism
Eduardo Casey
1847–1906
Irish link: DocumentedThe Irish-Argentine land developer who founded Venado Tuerto, first exported live cattle to England and was ruined in the crisis of 1890.
- Land and business
Team photograph, 1936Luis Duggan
1906–1987
Irish link: DocumentedThe 1936 Olympic polo gold medallist from the Duggan family of Ballymahon, wool brokers and landowners behind the town of Duggan.
- Sport
- Land and business