How can we find 70 million people?

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Duffy on March 24, 2008 at 11:40am

Well, I dropped an email to the Irish programme on my local BBC radio station, as i know a lot of ex-pats and 2nd generation listen there. Also, being in Birmingham (UK), this place is teeming with us!

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Permalink Reply by Karl Schweppe on March 25, 2008 at 5:48pm

Michelle,

That's great! Broadcast media, eh? We might just be hitting the big time. I also found a site in the UK called IrishinBritain.com, and they posted my email asking for help. We'll see what develops.

Karl

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Permalink Reply by Conrad O'Neill on March 27, 2008 at 3:59am

I will add a link in our blog in UruguayIreland.com and send an invite to a coleague in Buenos Aires. There is a big Irish community there. Contacting regional communities might help a lot.

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Permalink Reply by Karl Schweppe on March 27, 2008 at 1:12pm

Conrad,

Great idea. I like your site too and have added it to our blogroll on the mapping site, www.seventymillion.org. Interesting to read on the blog that there is a place in Argentina call Ciudad de O'Brien (O'Brien City) founded in 1909 by Edward O'Brien Cavanagh and Jane Bohan from Wexford in Ireland.

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Permalink Reply by Conrad O'Neill on March 29, 2008 at 6:49pm

Many thanks for your comments. With respect to your question re how to find the 70 million, I think you are on the right track. You have just started something that, given enough time, will surely meet it's goal. It can't get anywhere else. Our goal with UruguayIreland.com is pretty much the same though less ambitious. We want to bring the Irish in Uruguay together and also link with the Uruguayans in Ireland. This is slowly but steadily building up.

Last year we met David McWilliams in Montevideo during the make of "The Generation Game". David spoke of 80 million! A couple of weeks ago we met Vince Hearns, from the Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, on holidays in Uruguay with his wife Mona. Grianan played some Irish music at a pub for them and then we spoke over a few of pints. He told us of the concept of "the forgotten cousin". He was also surprised to find these Irish connections.

I'm glad to see some contacts I referred your site to are beggining to register. I warned you there is a big community in Argentina.

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Permalink Reply by Marella O'Sullivan on March 30, 2008 at 10:57am

If you can post to all the Irish Facebook groups as you can...I've started you off on London Irish Craic which as over 600 members. Also gumtree is a highly popular website for Irish people. This is a fab site, one that was very much need for everyone Irish round the world. Thanks for setting it up!

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Permalink Reply by Karl Schweppe on March 30, 2008 at 11:08am

Hi Marella,

Thanks so much for your kind words. It's really encouraging to get positive feedback. Nice tip on Facebook. I'll get on that now. Karl Schweppe

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Permalink Reply by Ruben Hector Robledo Molloy on April 2, 2008 at 3:50am

I will add a link in the page www.comunidad-irlandesesa.com.ar
I like your idea very much.

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Permalink Reply by Ruben Hector Robledo Molloy on March 29, 2009 at 5:05pm

Marella and all the irish Diaspora,

Would you please send me the list of all Irish groups and web sites you know in order to publish and exchange links withe them an www.comunidadirlandesa.com.ar ?

Cheers from Argentina

Rubén

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