Moreno

Moreno, west of Buenos Aires, is home to the Instituto Fahy at Av. Francisco Piovano 4400. The school was founded for orphan boys by the Ladies of St Joseph's Society, the Asociación de Señoras de San José, on 14 May 1891, in the wake of the City of Dresden arrivals, according to María José Roger's chronology of Irish schools. The society had been formed that year by Irish women led by Marion Murphy de Mulhall, the school's website says. Roger records that the Marist Brothers ran the school from 1908 to 1933 and then the Pallottines, and that it moved to a farm school at Moreno on 16 December 1929. The school's own site dates its founding to 1927, and the Teresian Association, which took over its management in 2016, to the late nineteenth century.

The writer Rodolfo Walsh boarded at the Instituto Fahy. The Argentine government's Walsh page says he boarded from 1941; Tiempo Argentino puts his years at Irish-community schools between 1937 and 1940. The school is the setting of his Serie de los irlandeses: "Irlandeses detrás de un gato", "Los oficios terrestres" and "Un oscuro día de justicia", written between 1967 and 1970. A library named after Walsh now occupies a former dormitory described in the stories.

The Fahy was a boarding school until the mid-1990s. Today it is a coeducational, full-day Catholic agrarian technical school with kindergarten, primary and secondary levels. The Asociación de Señoras de San José received an Emigrant Support Programme grant from Ireland in 2024.