The CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies presents a lecture by Argentinean historian Edmundo Murray entitled The Irish Road to South America: Nineteenth Century Travel Patterns from Ireland to the River Plate on Wednesday, September 7, 2005 at 7PM in the Faculty Dining Room, Music Building at Lehman College. This event is free to the public. Reservations are appreciated, but not required and can be made by calling 718-960-6722.

The nineteenth-century Irish emigration to Argentina has been studied from many different viewpoints. There are a growing number of demographic, historical and cultural studies which focus on the diverse aspects of this migration. This migration along with Quebec and Mexican Texas produced the only Irish settlements in non English-speaking territories.
Most of these studies though concentrate on the settlement and the life of the emigrants from the time they arrived in the River Plate (Argentina and Uruguay), thus neglecting the preparations for their journey and the material details of the voyage.

Mr. Edmundo Murray was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1955. He has published numerous articles on poems, essays and stories in various magazines from Argentina, Spain, Ireland, Mexico and Switzerland.

Interesting, I've never really thought about how the Irish ended up in Argentina, but it's preety interesting.

"This migration along with Quebec and Mexican Texas produced the only Irish settlements in non English-speaking territories. " ...'In the continent of America'
you left out! Plenty of people went to Europe etc..

Big Argentinian community in Ireland! mi novia es de alli!

Including statues of men in kilts with their feet on the heads of fallen natives who they subdued. Paddy has a few dark secret down that way.

It is part of the tragedy of the British empire that many of those fiercist in spreading it were drawn from those first colonised in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

More than enough dark secrets to go around...

new orleans was seized from the french by don alexander o'reilly in early 1760s with 24 spanish ships and thousands of irish speaking ge/anna fia/ine as soldiers.

the irish language has been spoken in that blessed city for more than 250 years.

tuig e/ no/ na/.

many of the those fiercest in fighting the british empire continued to do so in exile: founding the fenians american wing clann na gael in the five points in 1858.

in fact the diaspora was the staging ground for successive assaults against the slave empire of england.

the baill o/glaigh were everywhere, mo chara. still are.