Michael George Mulhall
1836–1900
Irish link: Documented
Dublin-born co-founder of The Standard (1861), South America's first English-language daily, and author of the Handbook of the River Plate and later statistical works.
- Letters and journalism
The Southern Cross and the Irish-Argentine press
4 people
The editors and owners who gave the community its voice, from The Standard to The Southern Cross and the Review.
Edward Mulhall
1832
Irish link: DocumentedCo-founder, with his brother Michael, of The Standard in Buenos Aires in 1861; a sheep farmer and businessman from a Dublin family who befriended two Argentine presidents.
- Letters and journalism
- Land and business
Patrick Joseph Dillon
1841 or 1842–1889
Irish link: DocumentedFahy's successor as Irish chaplain, who founded The Southern Cross in 1875 and sat in the Buenos Aires legislature and the national Senate.
- Church
- Letters and journalism
William Bulfin
early 1860s–1910
Irish link: DocumentedOffaly-born writer who went to the pampas as a young man, rose from contributor to owner-editor of The Southern Cross as 'Che Buono', and wrote Rambles in Eirinn (1907).
- Letters and journalism