Priests, papers and a disastrous ship
Fr Anthony Fahy built a separate Irish Catholic world from 1844, two newspapers argued over who the Irish were, and the City of Dresden of 1889 ended organised emigration.
Fr Anthony Fahy built a separate Irish Catholic world from 1844, two newspapers argued over who the Irish were, and the City of Dresden of 1889 ended organised emigration.
Before 1806 the Irish in the Río de la Plata were subjects of Spain. Then came prisoners of war who stayed, an admiral from Foxford, and the aide-de-camp who went home to recruit.
Born in Argentina to an Offaly father, Eamon Bulfin raised the Irish Republic flag over the GPO in 1916, was spared, deported and sent back by de Valera as the Republic's first envoy. The Ginnells followed in 1921. What they found is in the Dáil's own reports.
Anthony Fahy ran the Irish of Buenos Aires from 1844 to 1871 as chaplain, banker, employment agent and matchmaker. His famine relief and schools sit beside his support for Rosas and the Camila O'Gorman sentence. The historians do not make him a saint.
Estimates run from 7,000 to 50,000 arrivals, about half of whom stayed, and from 150,000 to over a million people of Irish descent today. The spread is not carelessness: the figures count different things. Here is each one with its author and date.
An Argentine-born son raised the flag in 1916, two states made ties formal in 1947, the dictatorship killed people in Irish-founded parishes, and the 1982 war set Dublin against London.
How patrons, not famine, opened chains from Westmeath, Longford and Wexford, how the halves contract turned shepherds into landowners for one in ten, and what the camp cost the rest.
Bounty agents filled a German steamer with about 1,800 of the urban poor of Dublin, Cork and Limerick on promises of land. They landed in February 1889 to no lodging, food or work, and about 700 went to tents at Napostá.
Since the 1990s the link has run through state visits, a working holiday scheme, about 500,000 people of Irish descent, Gaelic football, Irish dance, two Irish towns, and a citizenship route most descendants cannot use.