Foxford
Co. Mayo
The Mayo town where William Brown was born in 1777, with a 1957 bust, a riverside statue and an annual Argentina Day on a Saturday near his birthday.
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Places thatconnect us
Where the story can still be seen: in Mayo and Wexford, on the pampas and in Buenos Aires. Each place says whether a visitor can see it today, as far as the sources know.
35 places · in two countries, each with its sources
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Ireland
From the Moy at Foxford to the quays of Dublin: the towns and parishes that sent emigrants, and the places that remember them.
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Sir John Rogerson's Quay
Dublin
The bronze statue of Admiral William Brown on Dublin's docklands quay, a gift from the Argentine Navy unveiled in 2006 and moved to a new plinth in 2012.
Kilrane and Haysland
Co. Wexford
The south Wexford parish where John James Murphy was born and set out for the River Plate in 1844, remembered in the song The Kilrane Boys.
Ballymahon
Co. Longford
The south Longford town at one end of the Midlands sending district, and the home place of the Duggan brothers who gave their name to a town near San Antonio de Areco.
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Every place leads somewhere
A place opens onto the people who knew it, the dated events that happened there, and the organisations that keep it alive.