Irish-Argentine Identity in an Age of Political Challenge and Change, 1875-1983 - Paperback

by Eamon Maher (Other), Patrick Speight (Author)

The first comprehensive analysis of the Irish-Argentine community in a century, this book uses the archive of the Southern Cross, the Irish-Argentine newspaper, to analyse the divisions that opened up in the Irish-Argentine community in response to 1916, the two World Wars, Peronism, the military dictatorship, and the Falklands/Malvinas war.

Author Biography

Patrick Speight holds a PhD from Queen's University Belfast. He is a former BBC radio presenter, reporter and producer who has lived and travelled widely in Latin America. He presented BBC Radio Ulster's religious affairs programme Sunday Sequence from 1990 to 1995, and produced A State Apart, an archival history of the Troubles. He has also produced websites on notable episodes in Irish history, including William III, the Plantation of Ulster, the Easter Rising, and the Good Friday Agreement.