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The Irish in Latin America and Iberia
A Bibliography
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By Edmundo
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Central America |
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Boyd Cannon,
Sarita, Boyds in Panama in 'Clan Boyd Society
International' (website
http://www.clanboyd.info/outsideusa/panama/) cited 28
July 2005. [website] |
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De
Micheli-Serra, A. 'Cirujanos y médicos frente a la
Inquisición Novohispana' in Gaceta Médica de
Mexico, 139:1 (January 2003), pp. 77-82. During
the sixteenth century, the first physician judged by
the Inquisition was the Irish Protestant William
Corniels, a barber surgeon who arrived with the John
Hawkins' pirate fleet in 1568 and settled in
Guatemala. |
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Kiely, Richard,
A letter from America in 'Old Kilkenny Review:
Journal of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society' 51
(1999), pp. 75-79. Letter written in 1929 by Richard
Kiely, b. 1873 in Rathculbin, from the Panama canal. |
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Kirby, Peadar, Ireland and Latin America, Links and
Lessons (Dublin: Trócaire, 1992). Ireland aid in
El Salvador and other Central American countries. |
● O'Connor, Joseph, Desperadoes (London:
Flamingo, 2004).
Tells the story of
a separated Irish couple, Eleanor and Frank Little,
who are searching for Johnny, their rock-singer son,
who is missing-believed-dead in Nicaragua. They team
up with Nicaragua's only rock band and share their
wild experiences, in an attempt to find Johnny. |
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Sánchez Pinzón, Milagros, Boquete: Rasgos de su
Historia (Panama City: Culturama, 2001). Includes
the story of brothers John and James O'Donnell Kelly,
who arrived from Boston in 1914 and settled in this
area of Chiriquí, Panamá.
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McCullough, David, The Path
Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal,
1870-1914 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977).
Thousands of Chinese, Irish and other workers were
hired to work in the Panama Canal and the Railway.
Twelve thousand died in the construction of the
railroad. "The common story [...] is that there was a
dead man for every railroad tie between Colon and
Panama City. In some versions it was a dead Irishman,
in others, a dead Chinese. [...] When they appeared at
the construction site near Matachin, the Irish crews
stared in ill-humored surprise and then burst out in
angry cursing. Long classified as stable and outhouse
cleaners in Great Britain and the U. S., the Irish had
risen to the heady rank of white Anglo-Saxons on
arrival in Panama and wanted everyone to know it. No
other nationality displayed so much animosity toward
people of darker skin and foreign ways as the Irish."
See also
The Panama Railroad (website
http://www.trainweb.org/panama/)
cited 28 July 2005. [website] |
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Copyright ©
Edmundo Murray, 2005 |
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Online
published:
1 April 2003
Edited:
07 May 2009 |
Citation:
Murray, Edmundo, 'The Irish in Latin America and Iberia: A
Bibliography' in
"Irish Migration Studies in Latin America" 2006. Available online (www.irlandeses.org),
accessed
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