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Murray, Edmundo "The Irish in Latin America and Iberia: A Bibliography - Mexico and Hispanic North America" Murray, Edmundo "The San Patricio Battalion: A Bibliography" History of Mexico: The Irish Presence at the Houston Institute for Culture. The legend of Zorro was an Irishman (William Lamport). The O'Brien clan in Mexico.
During the Spanish colonization of Mexico, several Spanish Viceroys were of Irish descent, including Juan O'Donojú, who was the last Spanish Viceroy. [2] During the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), many Irish-American immigrants abandoned their posts to join Mexican forces due to their solidarity through shared discrimination, and persecution of their Catholic faith by protestant ...
The great majority of those men who formed Saint Patrick's Battalion were recent immigrants who had arrived at northeastern U.S. ports. They were part of the Irish diaspora then escaping the Great Irish Famine and extremely poor economic conditions in Ireland, which was at the time part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. [8]
The shared Catholic heritage of the Irish and Latin Americans combined with the conflicting nature of the Irish diaspora as participating in Spanish colonialism and helping to impose Christianity, yet also participating in local independence movements and introducing religious and intellectual changes that led to emancipatory movements.
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Michael Hogan (born 1943 in Newport, Rhode Island [1]) is an American author of thirty-one books, including two collections of short stories, eight books of poetry, selected essays on teaching in Latin America, two novels, the critically acclaimed Abraham Lincoln and Mexico, and the best-selling Irish Soldiers of Mexico, a history of the Irish battalion in Mexico which formed the basis for an ...