Recoleta Cemetery

Recoleta Cemetery holds the two graves at the centre of the Irish-Argentine story. Admiral William Brown, born in Foxford, Co. Mayo, died in Buenos Aires in 1857 and was buried here with official honours. At the farewell Bartolomé Mitre said Brown had been worth a whole fleet to Argentina, according to the Argentine Navy's biography. Fr Anthony Fahy, the Dominican chaplain who gave Brown the last rites, reported the death to the government and led the prayers at the burial, as the historian Moira Casey records.

Fahy died in February 1871 during the yellow-fever epidemic. He lies in a later tomb of Irish marble topped by a Celtic cross, facing Brown's, according to a 2025 Canal 26 feature. Casey describes the two men as lying a few steps apart. The sheep farmer John James Murphy of Kilrane, Co. Wexford, is also buried here, according to Edmundo Murray.

The navy holds an annual tribute to Brown at the cemetery. In 2011 IrishCentral reported that the navy band had played "Saint Patrick's Day in the Morning" at it. An Irish minister laid a wreath at Brown's grave in March 2024, the Connaught Telegraph reported. Sources differ on Brown's death date: the Argentine Navy gives 3 March 1857, and this site uses that date.