The Irish in Latin America and Iberia. an Annotated Bibliography
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The Irish in Latin America and Iberia: An Annotated Bibliography By Edmundo Murray First published in Irish Migration Studies in Latin America (www.irlandeses.org) in April 2003 and updated until October 2007. Some later published book-length studies have been added in 2019. 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 Batallion; Eliza Lynch (1835-1886); William Brown (1777-1857). Some entries repeat in more than one category. I am thankful to the late Brian McGinn for his practical help and generous encouragement with this bibliography. Many of the following bibliographical entries were first gathered by Brian for his website The Irish in South America: An Annotated Bibliography and I published them with his authorization. I would also like to express my gratitude to the following people for their support and assistance in developing this bibliography: David Barnwell, Frank Cullen, Jorge Fox, Mike Geraghty, the Reverend Jeremy Howat, Oliver Marshall, Bruce Bradley S.J., Peter Feeney and Edward Walsh. Latin America (general) ● Canning, Anthony M. "South America" in Corish, Patrick (ed.) A history of Irish Catholicism (Dublin), 1971. Vol. 6, chapter 5. ● Coogan, Tim Pat. Wherever Green is Born: The Story of the Irish Diaspora (London: Hutchinson, 2000). Chapter nine of this book is dedicated to the Irish in Latin America. Although it is difficult to provide an accurate account in just forty pages, the interesting information contained in Coogan's text was obtained from a variety of secondary and selected primary sources, as well as through the vast contact network of the author. The chapter covers from the arrival of Irish monks to Mexico to the horrors of state terror and its Irish victims in the second half of the twentieth century, though emphasis is on Argentina, whose flavour Coogan found "particularly attractive" (643). ● Gillissen, Christopher, "L'Irlande et l'Amérique Latine" in Études irlandaises 23:1 (1998), pp. 173-184. ● Griffin, William D., "The Other Irish Americans" in William D. Griffin (ed.) The Book of Irish Americans (New York: Random House/Times Books, 1990), pp. 95-97. ● Harris, Mary N., "Irish Historical Writing on Latin America, and on Irish Links with Latin America" in Lévai, Csaba (ed.), Europe and the World in European Historiography (Pisa: Edizioni Plus, Pisa University Press, 2006). ● Ireland, John de Courcy, Ireland and the Irish in Maritime History (Dublin: Glendale Press, 1986). ● Ireland, John de Courcy, "Irish Soldiers and Seamen in Latin America" in The Irish Sword 1:4 (1952-1953), pp. 296-303. ● Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, The Irish in Latin America (Dublin: DFA, 2016). Catalogue of the exhibition supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and first launched in Mexico City in October 2016, including sections on Irish settlements, artists, religious people, soldiers, railroad workers, politicians, publishers, physicians and others (without forgetting the overused clichés about the supposed Irishness of Ernesto Ché Guevara). ● Kennedy, Michael. "'Mr. Blythe, I Think, Hears from Him Occasionally' The Experience of Irish Diplomats in Latin America, 1919-23" in Kennedy, Michael and J.M. Skelly (eds.) Irish Foreign Policy 1919-66: From Independence to Internationalism (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000). 1 ● Kirby, Peadar, Ireland and Latin America, Links and Lessons (Dublin: Trócaire, 1992). An Irish reading of Latin American history, including chapters by country and further diplomatic relations with Ireland. Strong section on Irish missionaries in Peru, Colombia, Brazil and other countries. ● Koebel, W.H., British Exploits in South America. A History of British Activities in Exploration, Military Adventure, Diplomacy, Science, and Trade, in Latin-America (New York: The Century Co., 1917). ● Marshall, Oliver (ed.) English-Speaking Communities in Latin America (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000). ● Marshall, Oliver, The English-Language Press in Latin America (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1996). ● Marshall, Oliver, European Immigration and Ethnicity in Latin America: A Bibliography (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1991). ● Miller, Randall M., Catholics in the Old South (Macon: author's edition, 1983). ● Mulhall, Marion, Between the Amazon and the Andes, or Ten Years of a Lady's Travels in the Pampas, Gran Chaco, Paraguay, and Matto Grosso (London: Edward Stanford, 1881). ● Murphy, Maureen, "Walking the Land: Charting a Course for Irish Diaspora Studies in South America" in ABEI Journal, The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, N° 9 (São Paulo, June 2007), pp. 111-185. ● Murray, Edmundo, “Shamrocks and Guayaba: The Current Status of Irish Latin American Studies” (Galway, 2006). Lecture read on 12 June 2006 at the Irish Studies Centre, National University of Ireland at Galway. ● Murray, Edmundo, "Ireland and Latin America" in Jim Byrne, Philip Coleman and Jason King (eds.) Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics and History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006). This book, in three volumes, includes over sixty entries on the Irish in Latin America by various authors, covering from the pre- Columbian period to the twenty- first century. ● Platt, D.C.M., "British agricultural colonization in Latin America, Part 1" in Inter- American Economic Affairs 18:3 (1964), pp. 3-38. ● Platt, D.C.M., "British agricultural colonization in Latin America, Part 2" in Inter- American Economic Affairs 19:1 (1965), pp. 23-42. ● Quinn, D.B., "Ireland and sixteenth-century European expansion" in Historical Studies, Williams, T.D. (ed.) (1958), pp. 20-32. ● The Linguistics Institute of Ireland, Stories about the Irish in Latin America [http:/ www.ite.ie/sabias.htm] Central America ● Boyd Cannon, Sarita, "Boyds in Panama" in Clan Boyd Society International (website http://www.clanboyd.info/outsideusa/panama/) cited 28 July 2005. ● 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. ● 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. ● Kirby, Peadar, Ireland and Latin America, Links and Lessons (Dublin: Trócaire, 1992). Includes Irish 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. ● 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. 2 ● 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. The Caribbean ● Akenson, Donald Harman, If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997). ● Anderson, Eileen, "An Alternative View to the Propaganda: The Irish-American Press and the Spanish-American War" in Irish Migration Studies in Latin America 5:3 (November 2007), pp. 163-170. ● Bailey, C. "Metropole and colony: Irish networks and patronage in the eighteenth- century empire" in Immigrants and Minorities, 23:2-3 (July 2005), pp. 161-181. "It explores the relationships between ethnicity, patronage and place by focusing on a group of Irish professionals. By piecing together connections between lawyers, merchants and medical doctors in various places including Ireland, London, Jamaica and Senegambia, this essay suggests that Irish networks were flexible enough to allow for dialogue, disagreement and change, but were also durable enough to transcend time and space" (from the abstract). ● Beattie, Michael (director), The Other Emerald Isle (1986), documentary about the "Black Irish" of Montserrat and their intermingling with the African slaves of