“Politically Incorrect: Irish Argentines in the Early Peronist Period”

CAROLINA BARRY

Irish Migration Studies in Latin American

Society for Irish Latin American Studies

Año: 2005 p. 69 - 76

1661-6065

The popular movement led in the 1940s by Juan Domingo Perón (1895-1974) promised to improve social welfare and to give political control to the labouring class. "Peronism" was thus resisted by the landed elite of the Rural Society and other conservative organisations. Although the Irish community in Argentina has been frequently depicted as being part of the landowning "estancieros", several Irish names can be identified among the supporters of Perón.