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This chapter focuses on the era surrounding Argentina’s 1976–83 military dictatorship and unravels the events and human perspectives that emerged from it and that subsequently shattered a homogeneous sense of Irish-Argentine identity. Narrators include the wife of an Irishman who was tortured by the military and the brother of an Irishman who was murdered by the military, as well as the voices of those who challenge the association of the Irish community with anti-military, leftist ideologies. The chapter reveals the import of political orientation in the traditional fabrication of Irish-Argentine identity and suggests the role of terror and violence in usurping components of cultural identity otherwise thought to be steadfast and unmoving.
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Fr. Fahy is Publicly Remembered Through the Fahy Institute, The Fahy Club While the Annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration in Argentina Begins with the Laying of a Wreath on the Grave of Admiral William Browne. Fr. Fahy is Buried Opposite Him in the Exclusive Recoleta Graveyard.
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Guevara’s Irish Connections Stemmed from His Grandmother, Ana Isabel Lynch, The Daughter of Irish Immigrants Who Sailed from Galway to Argentina in the Mid Nineteenth Century. Guevara Became the Iconic Personification of Latin America’s 1960s Revolution Against Class Inequality and Capitalist Imperialism and Retains a Global Status into the Present Day. Rohan, Brian, ‘Che Guvara’s Irish Roots,’ SILAS, www.irlandeses.org/rohan, Accessed July 16 2015.
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O’Brien, S. (2017). Post-Peronism and the Collapse of Community. In: Linguistic Diasporas, Narrative and Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51421-5_9
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