^● Barnwell, David. 19th Century Irish Emigration to Argentina (New York, 1989). [document] Unpublished paper.

^● Barnwell, David. "The Southern Cousins" in The Irish Literary Supplement (1989). Interesting article about the Irish in Argentina, including details and examples of their daily life in the camp. Contrary to almost every study on this subject written in English, Spanish quotes are correctly accented, have no orthographic errors, and they even have eñes!

^● Bulfin, William. Tales of the Pampas (Buenos Aires: L.O.L.A., 1997). Bilingual edition: English text with an introduction and glossary by novelist Susan Wilkinson. Spanish text with an introduction by the translator, Alejandro Clancy. First edition by Fisher & Unwin (London, 1900). Short stories written by the editor of The Southern Cross between 1896 and 1906. William Bulfin (1862-1910) was a journalist, story-teller, and sportsman (he introduced hurling in Argentina), with good connections in Ireland, Argentina and the Vatican City. The context is the life of the estancias and the work of the gauchos and the owners (principally Irish) during those years. The 1997 edition was published 'as an inverted book, with double cover, and separate pagination for English and Spanish' (from the editor's notice on the back cover). Considering the difficulties of translating into Spanish the 19th C oral and technical jargon spoken by Bulfin's characters, the Spanish version is a fine piece of translation. It was made by a local writer, Alejandro Clancy, whose forefathers originally came to Argentina in the 1840's. See review of Laura Izarra's article on William Bulfin, The Irish Diaspora in Argentina, below.

^● Cabrejas, María, and Fernando Nogueira. "La Santa Cruz: refugio de resistencia" Documentary film about the life, struggle and kidnapping of the "Group of 12", including the French nuns and the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and the infiltration of Astiz. Available to download here http://peliculasantacruz.blogspot.com/

^● Cané, Gonzalo. Anécdotas de Irlandeses en la Historia Argentina (unpublished manuscript). Articles prepared for publishing in The Southern Cross, including stories about Admiral William Brown and Irish nineteenth-century settlers and soldiers (eg., Leopoldo Lynch, John Thomond O'Brien, John Murtagh, Julián O'Roarke, John King, Peter Campbell and Patrick Island). Original accounts of Irish Argentines in San Andrés de Giles and Baradero. 

^● Club San Cyrano. Rugby and hockey club founded by Saint Cyran's School alumni. [website]

^● Coghlan, Eduardo A. (ed.). Andanzas de un Irlandés en el Campo Porteño 1845-1864 (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Culturales Argentinas, 1981). Originally titled The Customs and Habits of the Country of Buenos Ayres from the year 1845, these are the memoirs of John Brabazon translated into Spanish and annotated by genealogist Eduardo A. Coghlan. John Brabazon was a member of a Co. Westmeath Protestant family, who settled in Argentina in 1845 (Coghlan 1987, p. 53). Brabazon's memoirs report with simple language the adventures and misfortunes of the author in the pampas, including the barbarous murder of his first wife. Includes photos and a facsimile of the English original manuscript (two pages), which remains unpublished. According to Patrick McKenna (1994), a copy of the English manuscript was handed to him in the Irish embassy in Buenos Aires.

^● Coghlan, Eduardo A. El Aporte de los Irlandeses a la Formación de la Nación Argentina (Buenos Aires, 1982). Table I: passengers arrived in Buenos Aires from 1822 to 1880. Sources for this table include the files of the Archivo General de la Nación ('Libros de Entradas de Pasajeros' 1822-1862), and the arrival lists published by 'The Standard' newspaper from 1863 to 1880. The author selected the passenger names presumably of Irish origin and sorted all entries alphabetically [website]. Table II: Irish family names in Buenos Aires (city and province) from 1855 Census. Table III: Irish family names in Buenos Aires (city and province) from 1869 Census. Table IV: Irish family names in Argentina from 1895 Census. The last three tables are sorted geographically, but there is an alphabetic index of all Tables elaborated by Miguel A. Mathé Murray (page v). Approximately 32,000 persons are mentioned throughout 645 pages.

^● Coghlan, Eduardo A. Los Irlandeses en la Argentina: Su Actuación y Descendencia (Buenos Aires, 1987). Irish settlers in Argentina, including their origins in Ireland and their descendants in the River Plate or elsewhere. Entries are arranged alphabetically by male immigrant. Other contents include a chronicle of the Irish in Argentina, sketches of 413 livestock brands owned by Irish-Argentine estancieros, 'La Heráldica Irlandesa' by Félix F. Martín y Herrera, and 182 Irish coats of arms. It includes press clips, photographs, and documents. Published privately, with contributions from the Cultural Relations Committee of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, and from private supporters (list on p. 959). Major sources: Coghlan (1982), The Southern Cross, The Standard, Handbook of the River Plate, The Story of the Irish Race (MacManus, Seumas, New York: 1921), The History of Ireland from the earliest period to the present time (Haverty, Martin, New York, 1857), Irish Pedigrees or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (O’Hart, John, New York, 1923) [website], Irish families; their names, arms, and origins (MacLysght, Edward, New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), More Irish families (MacLysght, Edward, Galway: O'Gorman, 1960), Murray (1919), and Registro de Marcas de Hacienda de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Parle, Estevan, Liverpool: Brown & Rawcliffe, 1885), as well as wills, church and civil records, family private documents and interviews. Eduardo Coghlan (1912-1997) was the most notable Irish-Argentine genealogist. 'Los Irlandeses en la Argentina' is his masterpiece, a monumental book of 963 (awkwardly bound) pages, including more than 3,600 Irish immigrants and their families. In Wherever Green is Worn, The Story of the Irish Diaspora (London, 2000: 640), Tim Pat Coogan mentions that 'Coghlan’s work is today the most consulted reference work in the [Buenos Aires] Irish Embassy.' In spite of the relatively implicit chauvinism and of the insistence on linking members of the Irish race to the local landed bourgeoisie and to the European aristocracy, 'this book is an invaluable source for any research concerning the Irish-Argentine community' (Guillermo MacLoughlin, The Forgotten People).

^● Colegio Cardenal Newman, the Christian Brothers' boys school for local affluent families. Founded in 1948, it still has one of the most expensive tuitions parents can afford for a private school in Argentina. Strategically located in an exclusive area North of Buenos Aires, the school has another institution for poorer families in Buenos Aires, Colegio Edmundo Rice, also managed by the Christian Brothers. Cardenal Newman is a prestigious name in the Argentinean rugby championship. [website]

^● Colegio Santa Brígida. The 'Asociación Católica Irlandesa' founded this girls school in 1899, initially aimed at orphans and daughters of poor Irish-Argentine families living in the provinces. [website]

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