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Black 47
That is the name I gave to my greatgrandfather´s story when I finally published in a small book. I´m a Literature and English Teacher, and writer, in San Fernando, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I´m very proud of my ancestors. I´ve been in Mullingar, County Westmeath, from where Luke Doyle emigrated to Argentina, the last of the family to do so, after his parents' death by the Great Famine. He was married here by the mythical Father Fahy with Kathleen Gaynor, daugther of the most important ladnowner of the Province of BA, and he had 14 children with her. Then she died, he remarried, and had 2 more daughters. His house is still in San Pedro, Province of BA. We call it the `Museum'. When all the descendants met there, some times ago, we were 150, and not all present!!! I have 2 sons and 2 daughters with blue and green eyes and a small granddaughter with blue eyes too. As I have already said, I´m very proud of my Irish heritage of struggle, hope and faith! Greetings to you all!
Liliana Doyle
Liliana Doyle
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Comment by liliana doyle on July 17, 2009 at 9:52pm - No, I don´t know that story. I knew about the Dresden. It came out in The Southern Cross, the Irish newspaper in Argentina. Remember also William Brown, the founder of Argentinian Navy. Greetings. Lilian
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Comment by Karl Schweppe on July 16, 2009 at 7:52am -
Thanks Liliana, I love the history stuff and I know other people do too. This is around the same time as the Irish emigrants going to La Vitícola. I don't know if you are familiar with the tragic tale:
Un centenar de irlandesitos en La Vitícola
A hundred kids at La Vitícola
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Comment by liliana doyle on July 15, 2009 at 10:48pm
- Hello! He left Ireland in the worst year of the Famine, 1847. It is known that priests encouraged Irish to come to Argentina where they would be given lands, mostly in the Indian border, and because they wouldn´t be discriminated here because the official religion is Catholic. They settled in the Province of Buenos Aires, where the green low hills reminded them of their lost country. They growed potatoes and raised sheep cattle. They owned a lot of land in the Province of Buenos Aires by the end of the century. Some of their descendants, like my uncle Luke, still have their estancias or ranchs. They mixed a lot here, with Spanish, Italian and German descendents, and Native Americans, too. Greetings. Lilian
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Comment by Karl Schweppe on July 15, 2009 at 9:56pm
- Liliana, can you tell us a little more about your great grandfather and perhaps share a little from the book? I'd love to hear more about why he left Ireland and how he ended up in Argentina.
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