Irish Migration Studies in South America

Welcome to the Society for Irish Latin American Studies

We welcome you to the Society for Irish Latin American Studies. This website is intended as a resource for study, and is the collective result of research developed by Members of SILAS and other persons. These pages contain a broad collection of materials related to the Irish in Latin America, including articles, papers, reviews, databases, interviews, a bibliography of over 100 books, articles, and audiovisual material, and links to related resources. We welcome your comments, suggestions, and contributions. Send proposals to the editors.

This website should be particularly helpful to historians, literary scholars, anthropologists, geographers of the Irish and British migration to Latin America and the Latin American migration to Ireland. Additionally, family historians may find useful our emigrant databases and contextual information. At present, some educators have suggested this information to their students as reading for their courses. We intend to increase both the quantity and quality of materials available to them. Users will find the following sections:

The Homeland: information about the Irish counties with high rates of emigration to Latin America. Contemporary resources helpful to understand the experience of the Irish emigrants bound for Latin America.

The Journey: articles about emigrant ships and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century travel patterns to Latin America. A passenger list includes over 7,000 Irish arrivals to South American ports.

Settlement: includes a list of over 4,300 Irish settlers. There are also photo galleries, audio files of interviews with descendants of Irish immigrants, and primary sources of Irish settlers in South America.

Faces and Places: We included in this section the Dictionary of Irish Latin American Biography, place names in Latin America connected to Ireland and the Irish, and landmarks of the Irish settlement, lists of burial records, studies about the cultural values of the Irish in Latin America, as well as particular essays about literary and other representations.

Furthermore, there are other sections with useful information:

Introduction: this section is intended for those with little knowledge of the Irish emigration to Latin America. The Bibliography is a unique source of information arranged by country and by author. The Timeline presents a chronology of the major events in Irish-Latin American history. Variously categorized Databases of Irish emigrants and settlers have been assembled in order to support research or to make specific look-ups.

About: facts about the Society, the contents and rules of the Manuscript and Rare Books Collection, the development of SILAS grant programmes for students and researchers, a web log including the updates in these pages, announcements and the site map.

Contacts: how to contact us, visitors' feedback, the application form to join SILAS, copyright information and useful links.

As a final point, please note that the following pages contain materials with different, frequently contrasting, viewpoints. We encourage diversity, we accept cultural differences, and we recognise that no one culture is intrinsically superior to another. Indeed, most Members of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies are not Irish or Latin Americans. Independently of our origin, beliefs, and ideologies, we are a group of people committed to study the relationships between Ireland and Latin America.

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The background photograph of the top banner shows pilgrims at a station in the Monastery, Capitán Sarmiento, Buenos Aires province, 18 May 1898. Passionist Fathers, Golden Jubilee of the Monastery Saint Paul's Retreat of the Passionist Fathers (Capitán Sarmiento, November 1938).