
William Brown
1777–1857
The Mayo-born founder of the Argentine Navy, who broke the Spanish blockade off Montevideo in 1814 and commanded the fleet against Brazil.
- Navy and wars

Visiting
Visiting: Not confirmedas of 12 October 2012
A public square; the memorials were described in 2011 and a Brown ceremony was planned there in 2012; no later finding about the square was read.
Source: Tom Hennigan, Higgins makes visit to Argentina, Irish Times (12 Oct 2012), 12 October 2012(opens in a new tab)Plaza Irlanda is in Caballito, Buenos Aires. IrishCentral reported in 2011 that the square has memorials to Patrick Pearse, Admiral Brown and James Joyce, and that the Monsignor Dillon school stands opposite. During President Michael D. Higgins's visit in October 2012, a ceremony for Admiral Brown was planned in the square, according to the Irish Times.
The square has a place in the history of hurling in Argentina. A demonstration game was played at the Plaza Irlandesa, Caballito, on 5 August 1900, Arminta Wallace wrote in the Irish Times in 2017. The earliest references to the game in Argentina date from 1887 to 1888 in the countryside, and the first match between constituted clubs was played in July 1900.
Beside the square, at Gaona 2058, is the Instituto Santa Brígida, founded in 1899 by the Asociación Católica Irlandesa, which carried on Fr Fahy's work from 1883. Its Tudor-style building was designed by Herbert Arthur Inglis and its chapel opened in 1913. The city declared the school a Site of Cultural Interest in 2000. In March 2024 the school hosted a St Patrick's Mass attended by an Irish minister, the Buenos Aires Times reported. Nothing was found about current events in the square itself.

1777–1857
The Mayo-born founder of the Argentine Navy, who broke the Spanish blockade off Montevideo in 1814 and commanded the fleet against Brazil.

1841 or 1842–1889
Fahy's successor as Irish chaplain, who founded The Southern Cross in 1875 and sat in the Buenos Aires legislature and the national Senate.
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