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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The tensions existing between what historians call ‘the two histories’.
Dr Regan and Mr Snide
Secret diasporas: the Irish in Latin America and the Caribbean
Willa Murphy traces the Andean roots of the humble spud, by far the greatest South American influence on Irish history.
Micheál Ó Siochrú outlines the context of the transportation of Catholic Irish to the Caribbean in the 1650s.
Alfredo Sepulveda outlines the career of Chile’s most famous patriot.
Oscar McLennan relates an Irish-Argentinian story of love, betrayal and hypocrisy.
What is the origin of the word ‘brasil’? Is there any relation between the name of the South American country and the ‘Otherworld’ place of Hy Brasil—an imaginary island, born in the Celtic mind and cherished in the west of Ireland as an earthly paradise? Geraldo Cantarino assesses the evidence.
Claire Healy teases out the complex issues surrounding ethnic identity for the Irish in Argentina.
Angus Mitchell traces Ireland’s involvement in a disturbing saga of ecological devastation and exploitation.
Spectators couldn’t decide which was the more amazing sight: Brazil, with many of their 1970 World Cup-winning players in the team, or the opposing all-Ireland selection, despite the ‘troubles’ still raging north of the border. How had it come about? Shane Tobin explains.
How did events in Latin America influence young Irish leftists in the early 1970s? In a personal memoir Paddy Woodworth tells a cautionary tale.
Many of us have seen the poster, or even worn the T-shirt, but how many are aware that one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century was the work of an Irishman? Tommy Graham chatted with him recently to get the story behind the image.
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