William Bulfin

William Bulfin was born at Derrinlough, near Birr, Co. Offaly, in the early 1860s; the sources give 1861, 1862, 1863 and 1864. He went to Argentina in the early 1880s, according to Offaly Archives, or in 1884, according to the Offaly History blog, and Offaly Archives say he worked as a gaucho. He met his wife, Annie O'Rourke, on John Dowling's ranch. SILAS gives her as Ann O'Rourke of Ballymore, Co. Westmeath.

He wrote for The Southern Cross under the pen name "Che Buono" and rose, in the accounts the research has seen, from contributor to sub-editor and then owner and editor. Juan José Delaney calls him the paper's third editor. An older account by Nally gives him as editor from 1869 to 1906, which is impossible given his birth and is treated as an error. Delaney notes that his Tales of the Pampas (1900) reproduces an Irish-Porteño speech that mixes English, Irish and Spanish. The Irish Times, reporting Kelly's academic study in 2009, describes him as a close associate of Arthur Griffith who opposed the Boer War and helped found the Gaelic League in Argentina.

Rambles in Eirinn appeared from Gill of Dublin in 1907. The sources differ on when he returned to Ireland: Offaly Archives say 1902, the Dictionary of Irish Biography May 1909 and the Irish Times New Year's Day 1910. He sent his son Eamon to Pearse's St Enda's. He died at Derrinlough House on 1 February 1910. Laura Izarra and Sinéad Wall place Tales of the Pampas at the start of a recognised body of Irish-Argentine literature that runs through Kathleen Nevin, Benito Lynch and the Walshes to Juan José Delaney.