The Correspondence of Fr Matthew Gaughren OMI (1888-1890)
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https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v24i1.205360Parole chiave:
Fr Matthew Gaughren, Dresden, Letters, Ireland, ImmigrationAbstract
In mid-1888, Fr Matthew Gaughren (1843-1914) was sent to Argentina by his superior, the O.M.I. provincial in Great Britain, on a “begging expedition”, which aimed at collecting money among the Irish settlers to lessen the debt upon the church of Our Lady of Grace at Tower Hill. However, Gaughren changed the priorities of his mission in South America and appealed to the English-speaking community to support the Irish immigrants who arrived in Buenos Aires in February 1889 on the Dresden steamer ship from Cork and were sent to an ill-fated Irish Colony in Napostá, near the port of Bahía Blanca. His thinking and his struggle are revealed in the following letters, collected from various archival sources, which are now being published, most of them for the first time, in their complete form.
Riferimenti bibliografici
Maison Générale Oblats de Marie Immaculée, “Biographies de famille: Mgr. Mathieu Gaughren, 1843-1914 (857)” in: Missions de la Congrégation des Missionnaires Oblats de Marie Immaculée (Rome: Maison Générale O.M.I., 1920). Vol. 54, N° 211, pp. 192-199.
Murray, Thomas, The Story of the Irish in Argentina (New York, P. J. Kennedy & Sons, 1919).
Necrology OMI, Anglo Irish Province, 2007.
OMIPAD : Order of Mary Immaculate, Provincial Archives, Dublin; Oblate Fathers, Tyrconnell Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8.
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