8 people
1822–1885
The Dublin-born Sister of Mercy who led the first Irish nuns to Buenos Aires in 1856 and ran the Irish Hospital, a school and an orphanage until the community left for Adelaide in 1880.
1839–1923
The benefactor who gave the Irish saints' altars to Luján basilica and built a hospital, a chapel and a school at San Antonio de Areco.
1869–1941
The Dublin-born headmistress who founded the Colegio Inglés of San Martín in 1894, open to pupils of any origin or religion and later renamed San Patricio.
–1922
Travel writer and wife of Michael George Mulhall, whose books on Paraguay, Mato Grosso and the pampas are read as an Irish woman's voice from 1870s and 1880s Argentina.
1882–1967
Born at Kilbride near Mullingar, she was her husband Laurence's partner in the 1921–22 Dáil mission to Argentina, where her Spanish was a key asset.
1828–1848
Shot with the priest Ladislao Gutiérrez on Rosas's orders in August 1848, aged about 20; the granddaughter of an O'Gorman merchant from Ennis and the best-known Irish-named victim of the Rosas years.
1954
Short-story writer of Wexford and Offaly descent whose book Pico de paloma appeared in April 1977, weeks before she was abducted and taken to the ESMA, where she was killed.
1930–2011
Poet, songwriter and children's author of Manuelita and El reino del revés, of reported Irish descent on her father's side; later a member of the Council for the Consolidation of Democracy.