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Executive Committee
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 Laura P.Z. Izarra
University of São Paulo
Senior Lecturer in English and Irish Literatures in the
Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the
University of São Paulo with postdoctoral research on
literature of the Irish diaspora in South America at the
Institute of Latin American Studies, London University, and
Trinity College Dublin. She is author of Mirrors and
Holographic Labyrinths: The Process of a 'New' Aesthetic
Synthesis in the Novels of John Banville (New York &
Oxford: International Scholars Publications, 1999), editor
of A Literatura da Virada do Século: Fim das Utopias?
and Literaturas Estrangeiras e o Brasil: Diálogos
(São Paulo: Humanitas/FAPESP, 2001 and 2004 respectively),
and co-editor of Kaleidoscopic Views of Ireland (São
Paulo: Humanitas, 2003), Irish Studies in Brazil
(2005), and ABEI Journal - The Brazilian
Journal of Irish Studies since 1999, among other
publications on Irish Literature and the Irish diaspora in
South America.
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 Oliver Marshall
Centre for Brazilian Studies
University of Oxford
Oliver Marshall is a Research Associate at the University of
Oxford's Centre for Brazilian Studies (1999 to date). His
publications include The English-Language Press in Latin
America (London, 1996), Brazil in British and Irish
Archives (Oxford, 2002 and Brasília, forthcoming, 2006),
English, Irish and Irish-American Pioneer Settlers in
Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Oxford, 2005) and, as editor,
English-Speaking Communities in Latin America
(London, 2000). In the mid-1990s Oliver initiated, along
with the late Guillermo Ford, the microfilming of the Southern Cross's newspaper
and periodical collection with
the support of the Latin America Microfilm Project (LAMP) of
the Center for Research Libraries (Chicago). His current
research interests include Irish mercenaries and farmers in
Brazil in the 1820s and "re-migration" involving the Irish
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 Edmundo Murray
University of Zurich
Born in Buenos Aires (1955) in a
family with Argentine, Colombian, Irish and Swiss origins
(though Spanish-Jewish, African and Amerindian are also in
the blend), Edmundo Murray was raised and studied in Argentina, the
US and Switzerland. Murray holds an M.A. in literature from
the University of Geneva, where his dissertation How
the Irish became 'Gauchos Ingleses' has been accepted
with honours. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University
of Zurich (Romanisches Seminar). Edmundo Murray works as an editor
at WTO Publications, the in-house publisher of the World
Trade Organization. He is the author of Devenir irlandés:
Narrativas íntimas de la emigración irlandesa a la Argentina
1844-1912 (Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 2004), which has been
published in English as Becoming Irlandés: Private
Narratives of the Irish Emigration to Argentina 1844-1912
(Buenos Aires: L.O.L.A. Literature of Latin America, 2006).
Murray is also an advisory editor of Ireland and the
Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (Santa Barbara,
CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008), and a lecturer and frequent
contributor of articles in Irish and Latin American studies.
He is a member of the Sociedad Suiza de Estudios Hispánicos
and the Société Suisse des Américanistes. Since 2001,
Edmundo Murray edits the open-access publication Irish
Migration Studies in Latin America,
the only journal focusing on relations between Ireland and
Latin America. He is a poet and a short-story writer, and
has published Poemas Nomades (1999) and Taxonomía
Fantástica de los Árboles de Buenos Aires (2000).
Edmundo lives with his wife Estelle and two of his five
children in a farm surrounded by pasture woodlands in the
Swiss Jura mountains. |
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 Edward Walsh
London
Born in Cork (1938) and educated
in Cork and Newbridge. Worked teaching in Ireland and
Argentina before coming to the UK where he worked
principally with consulting engineers and chartered
surveyors in facilities management and building
refurbishment. MSc in architecture from UCL. Has lived and
worked in Peru, Argentina and Colombia. Interested in
migration history and has written extensively for historical
journals and has undertaken extensive archive research
personally in the UK, Ireland, Italy, USA, Australia,
Argentina and the Falkland Islands. A member of the Essex
Recusant Society (Brentwoood Diocesan Historical Society).
Awarded a Shackleton Scholarship in 2006 to study the
Catholic Church in the Falkland Islands. Currently assembling a book
of Irish letters from Argentina. |
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 Hilda Sabato
University of Buenos Aires
Leading Argentine historian. She
is History Professor at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras,
University of Buenos Aires, and research fellow of the
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET).
She has published the following books: Cómo fue la
inmigración irlandesa en Argentina, with J. C. Korol
(Buenos Aires, 1981); Capitalismo y ganadería en Buenos
Aires: la fiebre del lanar, 1850-1880 (Buenos Aires,
1989) - published in English as Agrarian Capitalism and
the World Market: Buenos Aires in the Pastoral Age
(Albuquerque, 1990); Los trabajadores de Buenos Aires: la
experiencia del mercado, 1850-1880, with L. A. Romero
(Buenos Aires, 1992); La política en las calles: entre el
voto y la movilización. Buenos Aires, 1862-1880 (Buenos
Aires, 1998)- revised English version: The Many and the
Few. Political Participation in Republican Buenos Aires
(Stanford, 2001). She has also edited two collective
volumes, publishes regularly in academic and cultural
journals, and participates in discussions and exchanges in
the public sphere.
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 Sharon Newman
The Westmeath Examiner, Mullingar
Sharon is a senior journalist with well-known regional
newspaper the Westmeath Examiner, and the
Westmeath Weekend, and is a regular contributor to other
national and regional publications. Author of a number of
articles about the Irish diaspora and the emigration history
from Westmeath and Longford, Sharon's interest in
Irish-Argentine history began after discovering, through an
article she was writing, that her own relatives had
emigrated to Rosario, Santa Fe, during the height of
emigration from Ireland in the nineteenth century. The
Westmeath Examiner itself has its own links with
Argentina, sending copies to the Irish there after its
establishment in 1882. |
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 Bill Mulligan
Murray State University, Kentucky
William H. Mulligan, Jr. is professor of
history at Murray State University in Kentucky, USA where he
teaches a variety of courses on US and Irish history,
including one of the first courses offered on the Irish
Diaspora in the United States. He has published a number of
books and articles on American social and industrial
history. His current research interests are migration from
copper mining areas in Ireland to the Michigan Copper
Country and the nature of Irish identity in the various
countries of the Diaspora. He frequently presents his
research at conferences and articles on his current research
have appeared in a number of journals including New
Hibernia Review, the Journal of the Mining Heritage
Trust of Ireland, and The Tipperary Historical
Journal.
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Claire Healy
Dublin, Lisbon
Claire
Healy, originally from Limerick, has
also worked extensively with people seeking asylum,
refugees and immigrants in
Hamburg, Galway and
Dublin, and as a translator and interpreter for
State services in Dublin and for the Roma and Sinti Union
in Hamburg. Claire was invited to speak at the EU High
Level Dialogue on Legal Immigration in
Lisbon in September
2007. Also in 2007, her research publications On
Speaking Terms: Language and Introductory Programmes for
Migrants in Ireland
and Coordinating Immigration and Integration: Learning
from the International Experience were launched by
the Immigrant Council of Ireland, together with a report
for the CADIC Coalition, co-authored with Liam Coakley,
entitled Looking Forward, Looking Back: Experiences of
Irish Citizen Child Families. Claire has a BA
(International) in History and Germany, and undertook
Masters research at the Department of Latin American
History at the University of Hamburg. For her doctoral
studies as a Government of Ireland Scholar, Claire
undertook research in Buenos
Aires, San Antonio de Areco,
Hamburg,
London,
Liverpool,
Dublin,
Galway, Westmeath and
Wexford. She was awarded a
doctorate in history from NUI, Galway in June 2006 for her
dissertation Migration from
Ireland to
Buenos Aires,
1776-1890. She is currently working in
Lisbon as an Advisor
at the Office for Studies and International Relations of
the Portuguese Government's High Commission for
Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue.
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Guillermo MacLoughlin
Buenos Aires
Guillermo
MacLoughlin continues Dr. Eduardo Coghlan´s work researching
the genealogy of the Irish in Argentina, and has also
researched the history of the Irish in South America as of
the sixteenth century. He has lectured in Ireland, UK and
USA and has published articles in historical and genealogist
magazines. Born in Buenos Aires in 1959, MacLoughlin is a
public accountant (Universidad de Buenos Aires), and holds
an MBA from Eseade of Buenos Aires. He is a tax advisor at
the Argentine Rural Society (SRA), and board member of La
Nación and the Southern Cross newspapers. He
regularly contributes in both newspapers. He is a member of
the board of the Argentine Genealogical Institute (founded
in 1940), founder and first president of the Corrientes
Genealogical Institute and member of many genealogical and
historical institutions of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil,
Paraguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Ireland and the Irish
Genealogical Research Society, based in London. MacLoughlin
is an Honorary Advisor of the Irish Embassy to Argentina and
has been Deputy Secretary of the government of the Province
of Corrientes, Argentina and Advisor to the Deputy Minister
of Economy of Argentina. |
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 John Kennedy
London
A native of Ennis, Co Clare, John has lived in West
London for the last eight years. He is an economist
specialising in area of utility regulation, and holds a BA
in Economics and History from NUI Galway and a Masters in
Economic Science from UCD. John has travelled extensively
throughout South America - his travels, in particular in
Argentina, led him to appreciate more, the huge contribution
the Irish have made in all walks of life. This prompted him
to develop a keen interest in the history of the Irish
diaspora in Latin America. In August 2007, John was
appointed SILAS's Fundraising Officer. |
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Andrés
Romera
Waterford
Born in Valencia, Spain,
Andrés Romera is studying a PhD research degree in Hispanic
Studies (Reflections of Ireland through the Eyes of
Contemporary Irish-Argentinean Writers descendant from Irish
emigrants), supervised by Dr. Nuala Finnegan at UCC. He
currently works as a Spanish lecturer at WIT, teaching both
full-time students and in Adult Education. He is an
economist and also has more than twenty years experience
working for other companies in the private sector, both in
Spain and Ireland, as Head of Customer Service, Investment
Analyst or Acting Transport Manager. He is a researcher of
Hispanic Literature (Cervantes) and also Irish-Argentine
literature, in addition to SILAS's Administration Officer.
Andrés enjoys life, music, strategy games, meeting new
people, and of course spending time with his wife and their
two sons in their home in Waterford. |
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