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Show The Irish in Argentina. . There is an extremely interesting article ar-ticle in a recent number of the New York Daily News on the Irish in Argen tina, by Senor P.ulfin of Buenos Ayres, who has recently been in Ireland, when-he when-he identified himself prominently with the Gaelic movement. The Irish, he says, first appeared in the countries of the River Plate at,the close of the eighteenth eigh-teenth century. JYi those days the vast herds that, roamed over the pampas had t o other destination than the tallow boiler. The Irishmen, however, had learned the art of salting beef, and started an enterprise in this direction, which wag . successful. The beef industry in-dustry prospered, notwithstanding the years of civil strife which "followed the wars for independence at the beginning of the nineteenth -century, and with its prosperity Irish emigration to Buenos Ayres increased. Some of the emigra-tioiir.w'asr emigra-tioiir.w'asr from County, Clare, some f com Kerry, some from Wexford, but the lulk of it was from Longford and T estmeath. - Thfe" emigrants did not like the lonely pampas, and by degrees drifted backward; toward the capital. Thereupon came upon the scen Father Fa-ther Anthony Fahy, a Dominican friar, from Loughrea. He became a guide, philosopher and friend to the Irish exiles, ex-iles, encouraged them to be thrifty, and became their" banker. They trusted him r.nd as a result the Irish have now a great position, considering their num-? hers, in the Argentine republic. |