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*[http://home.earthlink.net/~rggsibiba/html/sib/sib6.html The legend] of [[Zorro]] was an Irishman ([[William Lamport]]). |
*[http://home.earthlink.net/~rggsibiba/html/sib/sib6.html The legend] of [[Zorro]] was an Irishman ([[William Lamport]]). |
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*[http://www.geocities.com/bajorama/OBrienClanofMexico.html The O'Brien clan in Mexico]. |
*[http://www.geocities.com/bajorama/OBrienClanofMexico.html The O'Brien clan in Mexico]. |
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*[http://sources.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=Mexico&filter%5b%5d=topic_facet:%22Irish%20Abroad%22 Primary and secondary sources relating to the Irish in Mexico] (Sources database for Irish research) |
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| Mexico City, followed by Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo León, Jalisco and Baja California. | |
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| Mexican Spanish, Irish, English | |
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| Irish, Irish Americans |
Irish Mexicans (Spanish: Irlandés-mexicano or Hibernomexicano; Irish: Gael-Meicsiceach) are inhabitants of Mexico that are immigrants from or descendants of immigrants from Ireland. The majority of Irish immigration happened to be Roman Catholic and during the time when Great Britain ruled Ireland until independence came in 1919.
Many Mexican Irish communities existed in Mexican Texas until the Revolution[citation needed]. Many Irish then sided with Catholic Mexico against Protestant pro-U.S. elements[citation needed]. The Batallón de San Patricio, a battalion of U.S. troops who deserted and fought alongside the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848[citation needed]. In some cases, Irish immigrants or Americans left from California (the Irish Confederate army of Fort Yuma, Arizona during the U.S. Civil War in 1861) and blended into Mexican society instead. [citation needed]
Álvaro Obregón (O'Brien) was president of Mexico during 1920-24 and Ciudad Obregón and its airport are named in his honor. Actor Anthony Quinn is another famous Mexican of Irish descent. There are also monuments in Mexico City paying tribute to those Irish who fought for Mexico in the 1800s.[1]
Notable Irish Mexicans
- See also the category of articles titled Irish Mexicans
- Anthony Quinn, actor[2]
- William Lamport, the real-life Zorro
- Álvaro Obregón (O'Brien) was president of Mexico during 1920-1924
- Juan O'Donojú, viceroy of New Spain
- Rómulo O'Farril, founder of newspaper Novedades
- Juan O'Gorman, architect[3]
- Edmundo O'Gorman, writer[4]
- Hugh O'Connor, Spanish governor of Texas from 1767 to 1770
- Alejo Bay, governor of Sonora from 1923 to 1927
- Michael Wadding, Jesuit priest and missionary
- Judith Grace, television hostess
- Vicente Fox Quesada, Mexican president (2000-06) claimed to have Irish ancestry, but was confirmed was more of German and American ancestry.
See also
External links
- The Irish in Mexico: An annotated bibliography at the Irish diaspora site.
- Murray, Edmundo [1] "The Irish in Latin America and Iberia: A Bibliography - Mexico and Hispanic North America"
- Murray, Edmundo [2] "The San Patricio Battalion: A Bibliography"
- History of Mexico: The Irish Presence at the Houston Institute for Culture.
- The legend of Zorro was an Irishman (William Lamport).
- The O'Brien clan in Mexico.
- Primary and secondary sources relating to the Irish in Mexico (Sources database for Irish research)
References
- ^ "Beneath an Emerald Green Flag: The Story of Irish Soldiers in Mexico". Society for Irish Latin American Studies. 2005. Retrieved 13 July.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ "Actor Anthony Quinn Dies". Reuters in Wired. June 3, 2001. Retrieved 2009-06-19.
Anthony Rudolph Oaxaca Quinn was born on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, where his half-Irish father Francisco (Frank) Quinn had married a Mexican girl of Aztec Indian ancestry, Manuela, while fighting for revolutionary leader Pancho Villa.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ "Rediscovering our man in Mexico City". The Irish Times. June 6, 2007. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
Few Irish people know the work of Mexican architect Juan O'Gorman - despite his Irish heritage. Gary Quinnwent to Mexico City to see the home he built for Mexico's most famous artists, Diego Rivera and Frida KahloIT'S incredible how successful the offspring of our diaspora can be without the Irish batting an eyelid. One of Mexico's most famous architects, Juan O'Gorman, was the eldest son of an Irishman, Cecil Crawford O'Gorman, who had moved to Mexico from Ireland in the late 1890s. ...
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ "Edmundo and Juan O'Gorman". Society for Irish Latin American Studies. Retrieved 2009-06-19.
Historian Edmundo O'Gorman (1906-1995) and architect Juan O'Gorman (1905-1982) were sons of the painter and mining engineer Cecil Crawford O'Gorman (1874-1943), who arrived in Mexico from Ireland in 1895, and Encarnación O'Gorman. Cecil was the grandson of Charles O'Gorman, who in the 1820s was the first British consul to Mexico city. Charles O'Gorman and his Mexican wife returned to the British Isles with their son John, who was to attend Eton and to go back to Mexico.
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