Irish-Argentinians

[Grace O'Malley]

Camila O'Gorman

Maria Camila O'Gorman Ximénez (1827/1828 – 18 August 1848) was a 19th century Argentine socialite executed over a scandal involving her relationship with a Roman Catholic priest. She was 20 years old and eight months pregnant when she and Father Ladislao Gutiérrez faced a firing squad.

Biography

Camila was born in Buenos Aires, the youngest daughter of Adolfo O'Gorman y Perichón Vandeuil, and his wife, Joaquina Ximénez Pinto. She was the second-to-last of six children in an upper-class family of mixed Irish, French and Spanish descent. Typical of powerful families in Argentina's post-colonial era, two of her brothers went on to pursue reputable careers. One as an ordained priest of the Jesuit Order, and the other as a police officer and the eventual founder of the Buenos Aires Police Academy.^[2]
She was also the granddaughter of Ana Périchon de O'Gorman (1776-1847), renowned lover of the Viceroy of the La Plata Santiago de Liniers, First Count of Buenos Aires. As the first British invasion occurred, Liniers was part of the defence of Buenos Aires. For heroic actions in defence of the city, Santiago de Liniers was appointed Military Governor of Buenos Aires, and Perichon de O'Gorman became the unofficial first lady. Her importance and power led to accusations intended to discredit her, including allegations that she was a spy for the French or the English. After Liniers died in 1810 she retired to a quieter life with her sons and died peacefully in 1847, at the age of 72.^{[citation needed]}
In 1847 Argentina was governed by Juan Manuel de Rosas, a General of the Argentine Army and a politician. Rosas governed the Argentine Confederation by decree from 1829-52. Camila was considered a pillar of polite society, a close friend and confidante of Rosas' daughter, Manuelita, and a frequent guest at the Governors Residence. In her late teens, Camila was introduced to Father Ladislao Gutiérrez, a Jesuit priest who had attended seminary with her brother.
At the time, the Society of Jesus was the only institution within Argentina's Catholic Church which continued to speak out against Rosas' police state tactics. This led Rosas to later banish the Jesuits from Argentina. Father Gutiérrez came from a similar background; his uncle was the Provincial Governor of Tucumán, Celedonio Gutiérrez. Father Gutiérrez had been assigned as the parish priest of Nuestra Señora del Socorro (Our Lady of Relief) and was frequently invited to the O'Gorman family's estate. They soon began a clandestine affair.
They escaped in December 1847 and settled in Goya, Corrientes Province, where they set up the town's first school and posed as a married couple under false names. Corrientes was at the time under the control of Benjamín Virasoro, a warlord hostile to Rosas. As the scandal broke, Adolfo O'Gorman sent a letter to Rosas accusing Gutierrez of having seduced Camila, "under the guise of religion". Adolfo described himself and his family as heartbroken and pleaded that his daughter be rescued from the man he accused of having kidnapped her.^[3]
Rosas' exiled political opponents, and future President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento declared that Rosas was responsible for the moral corruption of Argentine womanhood. Camila and Ladislao were recognised by an Irish priest, Fr. Michael Gannon. Among others, Father Anthony Fahy and lawyer Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield "demanded an exemplary punishment of the wayward daughter that was also giving the industrious and well-regarded [Irish] community a bad name".^[4]
The couple was abducted from Corrientes Province and returned to Buenos Aires. Camila claimed she had initiated her relationship with Gutierrez and insisted on their elopement, angrily denying rumors that she had been raped. From Buenos Aires, Rosas had given strict orders - the fugitives were to be sent to the prison of Santos Lugares (today San Andrés, General San Martín, Buenos Aires Province) in separate carriages - as indicated by Foreign Relations Minister Felipe Arana in his warrant of arrest.^[4]
Before reaching their final destination, Camila wrote to Manuelita Rosas, with the hope that she might persuade her father into granting clemency. Manuelita replied to her friend's letter, promising to help. Manuelita optimistically furnished a cell in a nearby Convent with a piano and books. However, Rosas denied his daughter's pleas and replied that this case, "needs a show of my undisputed power, as the moral values and sacred religious norms of a whole society are at stake". At the time, Rosas had removed the administration of justice from the courts and taken it upon himself. As per protocol, he signed a decree ordering the executions.^{[citation needed]}
Immediately after arriving to the prison, according to Canon Law, Father Castellanos, the prison chaplain, visited Camila’s cell and baptised her unborn baby. This consisted of Camila drinking holy water and placing consecrated ashes on her forehead. The next morning, 18 August 1848, O'Gorman and Gutiérrez were taken to the courtyard, tied to chairs, and blindfolded. Rosas accepted full responsibility for the execution, and said nobody had made any plea on behalf of the couple, overlooking the pleas of his own daughter, Manuelita. Many documents have survived, including a letter from Adolfo O'Gorman to Rosas, demanding "exemplary punishment for the most atrocious and unheard of event in this country".^[5]
A book published in 1883, many years after the event, by Antonino Reyes, who had served Rosas for 14 years and was his aide-de-camp, secretary, Sergeant Major, and Chief of Police at Santos Lugares Prison. Reyes was so moved that he decided not to witness the executions and out of compassion ordered both bodies to be placed in the same coffin. Only then did he write to Rosas and inform him that his orders had been carried out. In the aftermath of their deaths, both friends and enemies of Rosas claimed to be appalled by the cruel and senseless execution, including Sarmiento and his fellow Unitarios, and wrote about it using terms such as "the beautiful girl", "the doomed couple" and "the repression of love". Camila was 20 years old and eight months pregnant with an illegitimate child. Father Gutiérrez was 24 years old.

My God that's pretty brutal especially with Camila being 8 month's pregnant. What a sad story. They are like a real life Romeo and Juliet.

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

Antonio Dónovan

Antonio Dónovan (Buenos Aires, 26 de abril, de 1849 – Federal, provincia de Entre Ríos, 14 de agosto de 1897), militar argentino que participó en la Guerra del Paraguay, en las últimas guerras civiles argentinas y en las campañas previas a la Conquista del Desierto. Fue el segundo gobernador del Territorio Nacional del Chaco, desde la Organización de los Territorios Nacionales de 1884 (Ley 1532), entre el 15 de abril de 1887 al 18 de agosto de 1893 (Dos períodos).

Inicios y Guerra del Paraguay

Hijo del doctor Cornelius Donovan Crowley y de Mary Atkins Brown, en 1863 – tras la muerte de su padre – se enroló en el Batallón de Infantería Nº 2 sin autorización de su madre, por lo que fue dado de baja por orden directa del ministro de Guerra y Marina, general Gelly y Obes. Poco después logró conseguir la autorización materna y se incorporó al Regimiento de Artillería Ligera, en julio de 1864, y fue destinado a la isla Martín García.
Tras la invasión paraguaya de Corrientes participó en la efímera reconquista de esa ciudad por las fuerzas del general Wenceslao Paunero. A sus órdenes participó en la batalla de Yatay, del 17 de agosto de 1865. Participó también en el sitio de Uruguayana.
En abril del año siguiente participó en la captura de la Fortaleza de Itapirú, y en las batallas de Estero Bellaco, Tuyutí, Yatayty Corá, Boquerón, Sauce y Curupaytí. El 31 de octubre fue dado de baja del Ejército Argentino, sin que haya quedado referencia de la causa.
Se reincorporó al Ejército en junio del año siguiente, en el Batallón de Infantería de Línea Nº 2, con el grado de capitán. Participó en la campaña en que fuerzas nacionales enfrentaron y derrotaron al general Nicanor Cáceres, defensor del gobierno legal de esa provincia. En 1869, su regimiento pasó a Córdoba.
Regresó al frente paraguayo en mayo siguiente, destinado en varios destinos, pero no alcanzó a combatir. Regresó a Buenos Aires a fines de ese año.

Rebelión de López Jordán

Al estallar en la provincia de Entre Ríos la rebelión de Ricardo López Jordán, acompañó al coronel Luis María Campos como ayudante, sin haber comunicado esa decisión a su regimiento, que lo dio de baja del mismo. No obstante, a órdenes de Campos participó en la batalla de Santa Rosa y en otros combates menores.
En mayo de 1871, recién llegado a la provincia de Buenos Aires, combatió contra los indígenas en la zona de Tapalqué. Posteriormente pasó a Martín García.
En junio de 1873 fue destinado a Paraná, participando en la lucha contra la segunda rebelión de López Jordán. En la batalla de Don Gonzalo, del 9 de diciembre de ese año, la infantería al mando del mayor Dónovan tuvo una actuación decisiva para hacer retroceder a los federales.
En febrero del año siguiente pasó a ser ayudante del ministro de guerra, Martín de Gainza. A órdenes del coronel Julio Campos participó en la campaña contra los revolucionarios del año 1874.
Por esos años compró un campo en la zona norte de la provincia de Entre Ríos, donde sería fundada la localidad de Federal.

Campañas al desierto y rebelión porteña

En febrero de 1875 pasó a Gualeguaychú, en Entre Ríos, ascendiendo al grado de teniente coronel. En enero del año siguiente, trasladado nuevamente a Buenos Aires, participó en el avance de las fronteras ordenado por el ministro Adolfo Alsina, participando en la ocupación del punto estratégico de Carhué, pasando después a las guarniciones de Puán, Azul y Olavarría. En este último lugar dirigió las tropas nacionales en una batalla contra los jefes indígenas Namuncurá y Juan José Catriel, el 6 de agosto de 1876, recuperando unas de 50.000 cabezas de ganado vacuno.
Fue ascendido al grado de coronel en junio de 1877. Participó en varios combates más contra los indígenas en los años siguientes, y en las expediciones de avanzada que prepararon la Conquista del Desierto del año 1879, de la que no participó por haber sido incorporado al Colegio Militar y ocupar la guarnición de la ciudad de Zárate.
Participó en la represión de la revolución porteña de 1880, comandando el Regimiento de Infantería Nº 8 en las batallas de Puente Alsina y Corrales.

El Regimiento 1 de Infantería y el Chaco

En febrero de 1883 fue nombrado Jefe del Regimiento de Infantería Nº 1. Dos años antes había sido uno de los fundadores del Círculo Militar.
En agosto de 1886 fue ascendido al grado de general, y provisoriamente puesto al mando de la 1ª División de Ejército; fue posteriormente director del Parque de Artillería, Jefe de Estado Mayor de las fuerzas destacadas en el Chaco, con sede en Resistencia. Entre 1897 y 1891 fue gobernador del Territorio Nacional del Chaco, y hasta fines del año 1895 continuó siendo el comandante de todas las tropas militares del Chaco, pasando posteriormente a retiro.
Durante su gobernación creó el escudo del Territorio Nacional del Chaco Austral por Decreto del 12 de octubre de 1888, que en su artículo 2º dispuso:Adoptar como escudo del Territorio sobre fondo azul en los dos cuarteles superiores, y blanco en los inferiores, tintas de la Bandera Nacional, una palmera, símbolo de la fertilidad y clima del Chaco, a cuyo pie se colocará un arado, representando la agricultura, el trabajo y la civilización a que el hombre debe y de los que espera todos sus progresos
En ocasión de la visita del entonces gobernador del Territorio Nacional del Chaco Austral, General Antonio Donovan a la localidad de Gral. Vedia, los habitantes de la nueva colonia adornaron el camino de acceso brindándole así su caluroso homenaje. Utilizaron como motivo ornamental dos palmeras que existían a ambos lado del camino y al pie de cada una fue colocado un arado completando el conjunto con banderas argentinas. Sorprendido y emocionado por la sencilla y emotiva expresión de los hombres de trabajo el Gral. Donovan manifestó su interés por utilizar ese motivo para la creación del escudo del Chaco.
Falleció en su estancia en Federal el 14 de agosto de 1897.
Casado con Cándida Rosa Blanco, el primero de julio de 1872 con 23 años de edad, en la Parroquia Nuestra Señora de Montserrat de la Ciudad de Buenos Aries, con el rango de Sargento Mayor de Linea. Producto del matrimonio concibieron 12 hijos. Su nieto Carlos Alberto Dónovan y Salduna murió en un accidente, y en su memoria fue compuesta la Marcha del Teniente Dónovan, utilizada por la caballería argentina.¹​
A octubre del año 2019, del producto del matrimonio se han logrado identificar a 8 de sus 12 hijos, producto del matrimonio con sus respectivas fechas de bautismo.

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

My God that's pretty brutal especially with Camila being 8 month's pregnant. What a sad story. They are like a real life Romeo and Juliet.

In 1984 a movie was filmed about the life of Camila, it was nominated for an academy award for best foreign language film.

[Erronkari]

Agustín Creevy.
Rugby player of Jaguares and Pumas (argentine national team junior and major).



Agustín Creevy (born 15 March 1985 in La Plata) is an Argentine rugby union player.[1][2] He currently plays for the national Argentina team The Pumas and for Jaguares in the Super Rugby. Creevy is the most-capped Argentinian rugby player of all-time, having played 89 tests, including 49 as Captain, from 2014-2018.

He plays as a hooker, but has also played flanker and was selected for the 2010 June tests against Scotland. His test debut for Argentina was in 2005 when he played against Japan in Buenos Aires.

Career Edit
Agustín started his rugby career in the San Luis rugby club, in La Plata, Buenos Aires. He made his Argentina debut aged 20 against Japan in 2005,[3] playing as a flanker, two years later he signed his first professional contract with French Top 14 side Biarritz [4] in 2007. However he played very little in his first season in Biarritz and had gone out of international selection contention soon after his debut for Argentina.

In his second season at Biarritz he played just 20 minutes and suffered a lot from a shoulder injury. During his time injured Argentina coach Santiago Phelan suggested he switched position from flanker to hooker, Creevy requested and was granted an early release from his contract with Biarritz in January 2009 to return to Argentina to adapt to playing his new position.

Remarkably, within months Creevy was selected to play for the Argentina Jaguars a few months later in May 2009 to tour Namibia, and was retained for the 2009 Churchill Cup. He was then selected for the senior Argentina side for the 2009 November tests and replaced Alberto Vernet Basualdo as the Pumas understudy to Mario Ledesma, all in less than a year of playing hooker.

After cementing his status as Argentina's number 2 hooker throughout 2010, Creevy was signed by Clermont[1][4] as a medical joker for the injured Willie Wepener in October 2010 on recommendation from Mario Ledesma. However he only played 2 minutes during his three-month stay at Clermont, and returned to the Pampas XV in 2011. After the Pampas XV's undefeated campaign he was signed by his third Top 14 side Montpellier.[4]

Creevy captained Argentina for the Pumas second warm up match against the French Barbarians however it didn't go well for him as Argentina struggled massively at the lineout and lost 21-18. He also captained the Pumas against Worcester. Creevy was selected by Argentina for the 2011 Rugby World Cup and played in all matches off the bench.

Creevy is known as a mobile hooker with some very good ball handling skills for a hooker, his good offloading skills have led him to become called "Sonny Bill" Creevy (after the All Blacks centre Sonny Bill Williams whose trademark is offloading) by some Montpellier fans.[5]

Agustín is part of the Argentina squad that competes in the Rugby Championship, being captain since the 2014 Rugby Championship and until the 2018 Rugby Championship.

He was part of the national team that competed at the 2015 Rugby World Cup and 2019 Rugby World Cup.

[Erronkari]

Susana Giménez.
Actress and compere/presenter.



María Susana Giménez Aubert (born January 29, 1944 in Buenos Aires, Argentina), is an Argentine talk show host,[1] actress, model and businesswoman. She is considered the biggest celebrity in Argentine television.[2][3]

In this interview she talk about her irish maternal grandpa and the how she loved him:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cla...lJRYx.amp.html

[Erronkari]

John William Cooke
Known with the nickname of "el Gordo" (the fat or the fatman), was an influent politician.
He belonged to the peronism.



John William Cooke was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires, 14 November 1920 in the midst of a family political tradition, his father, Juan Isaac Cooke was a Member of the Radical Civic Union, and foreign minister during the dictatorship of Edelmiro Farrell.

Cooke campaigned while studying law at the University of La Plata in the University Union intransigence, it is discussed whether during this period was close to the ideas of FORGE (1) or its approach to its members would be given later. Became a lawyer in 1943.

He was elected deputy for 25 years by the Peronist Party for the period 1946-1952. In Congress he was Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies, the Aeronautical Code Drafting Committee and the Committee on Protection of Intellectual Rights. And one of the greatest performers of press censorship in Argentina and directly responsible for the delivery of the newspaper La Prensa.

At university level, served as professor of Economics at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires during the Peron government between 1946 and 1955.

[samario]

I love the Irish. We've got some in Colombia, too. Some of them fought against Spaniards along with the English (they were all Brits back then) during Independence. There's a plaque in honour to the British Legion:



James Rooke was an Irishman, by the way.

[Erronkari]

Betina O'Connell. Actress.




Betina O'Connell (Buenos Aires, March 17, 1976) is an Argentinian actress of theatre and television. She gained fame after her performance in the Young Adult show Montaña rusa.[1] In 2014 she played Irene[2] in Somos familia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betina_O%27Connell

[Erronkari]

Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield.
He wrote the first civil code of the country.


Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield (February 18, 1800 – June 30, 1875) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who wrote the Argentine Civil Code of 1869, which remained in force until 2015, when it was replaced by the new Código Civil y Comercial de la Nación.[1][2]
Vélez Sarsfield was born in Amboy, a small town in the Calamuchita Valley, in the province of Córdoba. His parents were Rosa Sarsfield Palacios (daughter of Jorge Sarsfield), whose ancestors were Irish, and Dalmacio Vélez Baigorri, who died before his son was born.[3] He studied at the Jesuit college at the National University of Córdoba, and was particularly adept at mathematics and languages, fluently speaking English, French, Italian and Latin. He earned a juris doctor in 1822.

Upon finishing his studies, he married the former Paula Piñero, and became very active in politics. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, and was nominated as the Speaker of the House in 1825, a position that he took up the following year, becoming the position's youngest holder, as well as a vocal supporter of President Bernardino Rivadavia and the latter's policy in favor of centralized government. Vélez Sarsfield was awarded a professorship of Economics at the Law Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires in 1826. He represented the Buenos Aires Province Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas in a number of legal disputes with the Catholic Church, as well as with Santa Fe Province Governor Estanislao López, and was named President of the Academy of Jurisprudence in 1835.
Souring relations with Governor Rosas forced Vélez Sarsfield to leave in exile to Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1842. He befriended Unitarians José María Paz and Domingo Sarmiento (staunch opponents of Rosas), and worked with the latter in Europe before returning. He arrived to find his home destroyed by vandals and occupied by squatters; but despite their earlier dispute, Governor Rosas had the property returned to the respected lawyer.

Vélez Sarsfield allied himself with General Bartolomé Mitre, a staunch advocate of Buenos Aires interests, following Rosas' overthrow, and served as counsel to Mitre in his opposition to the San Nicolás Agreement of 1852 (which Buenos Aires rejected). Following the province's secession, Vélez Sarsfield drafted the State of Buenos Aires Constitution of 1854 for Governor Pastor Obligado. The province's defeat at the Battle of Cepeda resulted in its reunification with Argentina, towards which Vélez Sarsfield helped craft a series of requisite amendments to the Argentine Constitution.

Mitre's election to the presidency in 1862 made Vélez Sarsfield the nation's Finance Minister. He obtained congressional passage in 1863 of the Commercial Code he had earlier created for Buenos Aires, and in 1864 began work on his landmark Civil Code. He also advanced the modernization of the agrarian sector, then dominated by livestock ranching, by funding the nation's first institute of agronomy. Vélez Sarsfield was appointed Internal Affairs Minister by Mitre's successor, Domingo Sarmiento, in 1868. He encouraged immigration by having the numerous, private assistance leagues merged into the Central Immigration Commission, and on September 25, 1869, had Congress approve the Civil Code by acclamation; the document, since amended, was enacted on January 1, 1871.

The aging jurist retired afterwards, and founded El Nacional. The new periodical coincided with the launch of Mitre's La Nación, however, and El Nacional closed. Dr. Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield died in Buenos Aires in 1875, at the age of 74; he was interred at La Recoleta Cemetery.

The barrio of Velez Sarsfield in Buenos Aires is named after him. The Vélez Sarsfield sports club, best known for its First Division football team, is indirectly named after him, having taken its name a railway station bearing his name.

[Erronkari]

Viva Irlanda! Remembering the history of the Irish in Argentina.
Opinion: Irish people have had a huge impact on Argentina's culture and society, but awareness of this heritage has been virtually forgotten

When visiting Buenos Aires, you do not have to look far to see hints of Irishness. The Bernardo O'Higgins statue, Almirante Guillermo Brown district, Velez Sarsfield football club, Dr. Garrahan paediatric hospital and Plaza Irlanda all serve as good examples. These names act as testimony to the impact of the Irish community on the lives of Argentinians over the years.

But even though the names are very much recognised by Argentinians, the awareness of their Irish roots has been virtually forgotten, together with their achievements. There are Clancys and Murrays born in Argentina who would be surprised to learn about their Irish heritage.

The presence of the Irish is not only limited to these landmarks with Irish names, but rather runs through and blends into the history of the community. 2016 brought Ireland and Argentina closer together, revealing the links between both nations. In the year that Argentina celebrated the second centenary of their independence and Ireland marked the first centenary of the Easter Rising, Irish historian Tim Fanning published Paisanos: The Forgotten Irish Who Changed the Face Of Latin America. The book was praised by Michael D. Higgins, with the President pointing out the value of this piece of scholarship in introducing Irish audience to the lives of those who emigrated and played a part in the establishment of new republics throughout the continent.
This year, we celebrate the centenary of The Story of the Irish in Argentina. Published in New York in 1919 and with a narrative style fashionable at that time, Irish historian Thomas Murray compiles photos, publications, dialogues he heard and events he witnessed, and begins a narration or reconstruction of the story of the Irish community in Argentina in the 19th century.

The history of the Argentinians has been written by many Argentine authors, but diasporic narratives were more often than not, ignored perhaps because it was believed they belong to the history of non-Argentinians.
Nevertheless, it is worth mentioning that the history of Argentina is intrinsically related to the history of its immigrants. After all, the country welcomed European migration to populate and work the land, and also to bring their culture to a nation that seemingly lacked a history and culture of its own.

Irish and Irish-Argentine writers like Murray provided testimony of life in the new world, yet their narrative remains largely overlooked. On the one hand, most of these texts may be unknown and inaccessible to Irish audiences, given the use of Spanish as a natural consequence of a process of assimilation to the adoptive country.
It should be mentioned that this is not the case with Irish narratives in the 19th century, as they were predominantly written in Hiberno-English and therefore can be accessed directly.
On the other hand, Argentina tends to believe that diasporic narratives belong to their ethnic groups, hence the absence of such material in mainstream bookshops. Unfortunately, both countries are missing a big opportunity to study how the Irish portrayed themselves and the many "others" they encountered: the languages, nationalities, traditions, geographies. These sources can have an impact on the study of other Irish communities in non-Anglophone countries. For Argentina, they can help revisit the national history by widening what otherwise would be a purely hegemonic Argentine perspective.
Many theorists discuss how migration processes since the 20th century have transformed the way we think concepts of nation, home and belonging. However, sentiments of "togetherness" and "otherness" seem to be determined to remain attached to more traditional approaches to how we conceive the local and the foreign.
There are many different angles from which the impact of the Irish in Argentina can be studied. History, politics, education, journalism, activism and literature can all serve as opportunities to explore their abundant contribution to the (re)configuration of national identity in their adoptive land. With new literature available, there is an open invitation to the general public and scholars alike, to reconnect with this history and to reflect upon they ways we want to shape our present and future history.

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/0...-in-argentina/