Why links between Westmeath, Longford and Argentina?
Genealogist With Westmeath Roots Explains Ireland’s Emigration To Argentina The Irish who went to Argentina came in a number of different ” waves” according to Dr. Guillermo MacLoughlin, an Argentine- Irish genealogist and historian, who at the end of September addressed both the Longford Westmeath Argentina Society in Mullingar, and the major emigration conference, “The Scattering” held in Cork. The different Irish “groups” in Argentina included the Spanish- Irish, the British-Irish, and even Russian-Irish, and Irish- born or ethnic Irish who came from America and Canada. Some of the European Irish would have been, he believes, descendants of the Wild Geese. Dr. MacLoughlin said that the Spanish Irish group consisted of Irish-born people, or their descendants, who came in the early period to the colonial territory of the River Plate, which afterwards became the Argentine Republic. Many of them held important positions in the military and civil administration during the colonial years,
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