Editing Irish diaspora (section)

===Argentina===
{{Main|Irish settlement in Argentina}}
[[File:Ushuaia-irish-pub.jpg|thumb|right|Irish pub in [[Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego]].]]
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, over 38,000 Irish immigrated to [[Argentina]].<ref name="Argentina">{{cite web |url=http://www.westernpeople.ie/news/story.asp?j=36054 |title=Flying the Irish flag in Argentina |publisher=[[Western People]] |date=14 March 2008 |access-date=4 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014183725/http://westernpeople.ie/news/story.asp?j=36054 |archive-date=14 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Very distinct Irish communities and schools existed until the Perón era in the 1950s.

Today there are an estimated 500,000 people of Irish ancestry in Argentina,<ref name="Argentina"/> approximately 15.5% of the Republic of Ireland's current population; however, these numbers may be far higher, given that many Irish newcomers declared themselves to be British, as Ireland at the time was still part of the United Kingdom and today their descendants integrated into Argentine society with mixed bloodlines.

The modern Irish-Argentine community is composed of some of their descendants, and the total number is estimated at between 500,000 and 1,000,000.

Argentina is the home of the [[Irish people|fifth largest Irish community in the world]], the largest in a non-English speaking nation and the greatest in [[South America]].<ref name=irishcentral>{{cite web | url = http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/viva-irlanda-exploring-the-irish-in-argentina-237375601 | title = Viva Irlanda! Exploring the Irish in Argentina | website = irishcentral.com | date = 2 August 2022 | access-date = 18 November 2023 | archive-date = 16 November 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231116155959/https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/viva-irlanda-exploring-the-irish-in-argentina-237375601 | url-status = live }}</ref>

Despite the fact that Argentina was never the main destination for Irish emigrants it does form part of the Irish diaspora. The Irish-Argentine [[William Bulfin]] remarked as he travelled around Westmeath in the early 20th century that he came across many locals who had been to Buenos Aires. Several families from [[Bere island]], [[County Cork]] were encouraged to send emigrants to Argentina by an islander who had been successful there in the 1880s.<ref>{{cite book|last=Clear|first=Caitríona|title=Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland, 1850–1922 |publisher=Manchester University Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-7190-7438-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RJdnAAAAMAAJ&q=%22several+families+from+bere+island%22+|access-date=17 October 2009}}</ref>

Considered by some to be a national hero, [[William Brown (admiral)|William Brown]] is the most famous Irish citizen in Argentina. Creator of the [[Argentine Navy]] (''Armada de la República Argentina'', ARA) and leader of the [[Military of Argentina|Argentine Armed Forces]] in the wars against Brazil and Spain, he was born in [[Foxford]], [[County Mayo]] on 22 June 1777 and died in [[Buenos Aires]] in 1857. The {{Sclass|Almirante Brown|destroyer}} is named after him, as well as the [[Almirante Brown Partido|Almirante Brown partido]], part of the [[Gran Buenos Aires]] urban area, with a population of over 500.000 inhabitants.

The first entirely Roman Catholic English language publication published in Buenos Aires, ''[[The Southern Cross (Argentina)|The Southern Cross]]'' is an Argentine newspaper founded on 16 January 1875 by Dean Patricio Dillon, an Irish immigrant, a deputy for [[Buenos Aires Province]] and president of the Presidential Affairs Commission amongst other positions. The newspaper continues in print to this day and publishes a beginner's guide to the [[Irish language]], helping [[Irish settlement in Argentina|Irish Argentines]] keep in touch with their cultural heritage. Previously to ''The Southern Cross'' Dublin-born brothers [[Edward Mulhall|Edward]] and [[Michael George Mulhall|Michael Mulhall]] successfully published ''The Standard'', allegedly the first English-language daily paper in South America.

Between 1943 and 1946, the de facto [[President of Argentina]] was [[Edelmiro Farrell]], whose paternal ancestry was Irish.