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category national | miscellaneous | news report author Thursday October 10, 2002 16:06author by Marc - Forum Irelandauthor email editor at forumireland dot com

Argentine/Irish petition to Minister John O Donoghue

An interesting article from Michael John Geraghty of the Buenos Aires Herald explaing how this petition came to be.

It is easily understandable that Ireland and Argentina have always held each other in high regard. After all Argentina received a large 19th-century Irish immigration which made an important contribution to Argentine life. Argentina was also the first state in the world to receive an Irish diplomatic representation when in 1921

http://www.forumireland.com/argentina.html

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http://www.irlandeses.com.ar/petition/petition.htm

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