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Fascinating. It reads rather like earlier accounts elsewhere of indentured servitude, only these Irish didn't know what they were getting into.

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Absolutely, also interesting to see the moving parts in terms of individual involvement but also at the diplomatic level

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The Irish in Argentina is also worth exploring. On a recent trip to Argentina I came across “The Kavanagh Building” Estancia Cullen in Patagonia owned by Patricio O'Byrne, Rudolfo Walsh a disappeared journalist, and the receptionist in my hotel in Buenos Aires was called Patricio O’C????.

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