Irish emigrants to Argentina

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Paddy Casey
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Irish emigrants to Argentina

Post by Paddy Casey » Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:02 pm

Most research on the Irish and Clare diaspora concentrates on emigration to the Antipodes or the United States. However, significant numbers emigrated to South America and the Society for Irish Latin American Studies has a most remarkable website at http://www.irishargentine.org/ which is well worth a browse. It contains lists of settlers' names, ships' passenger lists, burial records, excerpts from diaries, and numerous other documents containing lists of names, places and dates.

Those searching for Clare ancestors who left the county without trace might well spend some time browsing this rich source.

Paddy

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Re: Irish emigrants to Argentina

Post by smcarberry » Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:10 pm

Yet another bit of unexpected history from the Internet Archives collections of online books, this one at:
http://www.archive.org/stream/storyofir ... r_djvu.txt

"The Church and priest's house were completed and opened to service in 1876. A press report of the inauguration of the new Chapel had this to say: '...The Irish were well represented at the ceremony. There were the Harringtons, Mooneys, Austins, Kennedys, Doyles, Youngs, McDonnells, Owens, Newmans, Martins, Griffins, Keoghs, Eustaces, Quinns, Flahertys, Walls, Cullens, Kearneys, Roches, Wheelers, Cummins, Riardons, Nallys, Cloughisseys, Cavanaghs, Hogans, Brownes, Daltons, Kennys, Wades, Streets, Caseys, Brennans and a host of others. Wexford, Longford and Westmeath were well represented.' The writer should have said that Clare was also well represented." p. 260
The Story Of The Irish In Argentina
by Thomas Murray
New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1919

Also note p. 469:
"In 1865 an enterprising gentleman from County Clare, named Henry Barclay, came to Santa Fe with the purpose of obtaining a grant of land from the Government of the Province whereon to establish a colony of his county people. The negotiations in the affair were slow and unsatisfactory, and Barclay died in Rosario before anything came of them. "

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Re: Irish emigrants to Argentina

Post by pwaldron » Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:01 am

There is a surprising paucity of references on this English-language forum to the Clare diaspora in Argentina - this thread and one other, comprising a total of three messages, and dormant for almost three years.

Neither thread seems to refer to the archive of Irish-Argentinian genealogies at
http://www.irishgenealogy.com.ar/
which contains lots of Clare families, such as Carmody, Haugh, etc. Click on the relevant letter to see a long list of families whose surnames begin with that letter.

The only drawback is that every time one tries to use a keyboard shortcut in Mozilla Firefox, an annoying error pop-up in Spanish appears.

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Re: Irish emigrants to Argentina

Post by katrina » Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:56 am

www.argbrit.org is another site 'British Settlers in Argentina & Uraguay',containing cemetery records and information from records of St. Johns (Anglican) Cathedral in Buenos Aires & more. Not Irish specific, but surname search could bring up useful results.

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Re: Irish emigrants to Argentina

Post by PaddyShannon » Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:21 pm

Paddy,

You may get a kick out of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5TW00hTB1w

[The song "Argentina", composed and sung by Vincey Keehan]

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Re: Irish emigrants to Argentina

Post by Paddy Casey » Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:33 pm

Thanks for this, Paddy. Most poignant. Staggering, what there is on the Internet. Name a subject and someone has sung a song about it.

Hacking my way randomly through the WWW jungle with my cyber-machete I stumbled on the following little nugget (unfortunately I don't have access to the book, being away from English-language research libraries but one of the denizens of this forum may have it on their bookshelves):

Patrick McKenna, "The Formation of Hiberno-Argentine Society" in Oliver Marshall, ed., English-Speaking Communities in Latin America (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000; Hampshire & London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 2000).......information on the Cullen and Carmody families. The former were descended from an Irish merchant family long established in the Canary Islands (p. 84, n. 6). The latter were a Co. Clare farming family who settled away from the main Irish colonies in Argentina and maintained their Irish-speaking tradition until at least 1900 (pp. 91-92, n. 24).

Paddy C.

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