Knowledge Commons | Irish Diaspora Histories | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/irish-diaspora-histories/ Activity feed for the group, Irish Diaspora Histories. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:58:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 1072f8a6b8a1830c45768cd34d8da7ab Edmundo Murray deposited Explosive Journey: Perceptions of Latin America in the FARC-IRA Affair (2001-2005) in the group Irish Diaspora Histories https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690181/ Sun, 07 Jun 2020 16:26:09 -0400 The IRA's alleged connections with FARC, which surfaced in 2001 and continue to appear in the Irish and Colombian media, are an ideal opportunity to analyse perceptions of Latin America in Ireland. Newspaper articles, personal interviews, and the judgement of the Appeals Court in Bogotá have been used to study different attitudes in this puzzling…[Read more]

]]> 0 35adb975a2f4ac87ad3cd9bb8c825f82 Edmundo Murray deposited The Irish in Latin America and Iberia: An Annotated Bibliography in the group Irish Diaspora Histories https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690177/ Sun, 07 Jun 2020 16:25:58 -0400 This bibliography includes books, book chapters, articles, documentaries and websites grouped in geographic areas: Latin America (general); Central America; the Caribbean; Argentina; Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru; Brazil; Colombia and Venezuela; Mexico; Paraguay and Uruguay; Portugal and Spain. Thematic lists include: San Patricio Battalion of…[Read more]

]]> 0 aad01e52e874e59dd043622316212c65 Edmundo Murray deposited The Irish Road to South America: Nineteenth-Century Travel Patterns from Ireland to the Río de la Plata region in the group Irish Diaspora Histories https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690009/ Fri, 05 Jun 2020 16:26:46 -0400 Nineteenth-century Irish emigration to Argentina has been studied from different perspectives. There is a growing number of historical, demographic and cultural studies focusing on diverse aspects of this migration, which together with Quebec and Mexican Texas, produced the only Irish settlements in non English-speaking territories. However, with…[Read more]

]]> 0 27b90c61ee498e1a96dc30d02f96cb84 Edmundo Murray deposited Ireland and Latin America: a Cultural History in the group Irish Diaspora Histories https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690006/ Fri, 05 Jun 2020 16:26:38 -0400 According to Declan Kiberd, "postcolonial writing does not begin only when the occupier withdraws: rather it is initiated at that very moment when a native writer formulates a text committed to cultural resistance." The Irish in Latin America --a continent emerging from indigenous cultures, colonisation, and migrations-- may be regarded as…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce10af0dffcba1542e7602f968a7d002 Edmundo Murray deposited "Sighted the coast of Brazil the 28 th": John Murphy's journey to South America in 1863 in the group Irish Diaspora Histories https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1689994/ Fri, 05 Jun 2020 16:25:34 -0400 John Murphy (1822-1909) was born in Haysland, Kilrane parish of County Wexford, the eldest son of the farmer Nicholas Murphy and his wife, Katherine, née Sinnott. It was a typical Catholic middle-class family of Wexford farmers. In 1844, as a member of an emigrant group organized by Kilrane merchant James Pettit, John Murphy went to Liverpool,…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb64c839a24c93c30c42d9b44722ff1b Edmundo Murray deposited Becoming Irlandés: Private Narratives of Irish Emigration to Argentina, 1844-1912 in the group Irish Diaspora Histories https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688612/ Tue, 26 May 2020 16:26:24 -0400 "Revised edition in English of "Devenir irlandés", published originally by Eudeba in 2004. This edition abridges some of the documents that make up the bulk of the volume: two memories and two sets of family letters from Irish immigrants in Argentina, without losing any substance. The documents are presented in this volume in their original…[Read more]

]]> 0 f31b037121a7ce0fb26668dea372aec6 Sophie Cooper started the topic Welcome in the discussion Irish Diaspora Histories https://hcommons.org/groups/irish-diaspora-histories/forum/topic/welcome-21/ Tue, 18 Sep 2018 07:46:57 -0400 Hello everyone,

We have some great posts on Irish diaspora histories on the blog

However, it would be fabulous to have a space to go into greater detail about some of the issues raised, ask research questions, and share Irish diaspora histories events. Twitter is useful but we are often constrained by 280 characters and not everyone is on it.…[Read more]

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