Irish Mexican

Infobox Ethnic group
group = Irish Mexican


poptime = 300,000
popplace = Mexico City, followed by Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo León, Jalisco and Baja California.
langs = Mexican Spanish, Irish, English
rels = Christianity (mostly Roman Catholic)
related = Irish, Irish Americans

Irish Mexicans are immigrants and descendants of immigrants who origninated in Ireland

Many Mexican Irish communities existed in Mexican Texas until the revolutionFact|date=May 2008. Many Irish then sided with Catholic Mexico against Protestant pro-US elements{Fact|date=May 2008. The "Batallón de San Patricio", a battalion of U.S. troops who deserted and fought alongside the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848Fact|date=May 2008. In some cases, Irish immigrants or Americans left from California (the Irish Confederate army of Fort Yuma, Arizona during the U.S. Civil War in 1861)Fact|date=May 2008. Álvaro Obregón (O'Brien) was president of Mexico during 1920-24 and Ciudad Obregón and its airport are named in his honor. Actor Anthony Quinn is another famous Mexican of Irish descent. There are also monuments in Mexico City paying tribute to those Irish who fought for Mexico in the 1800sFact|date=May 2008.

Notable Irish Mexicans

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* Anthony Quinn, actor.
* William Lamport, the real-life Zorro (Guillén Lombardo).
* Álvaro Obregón (O'Brien) was president of Mexico during 1920-24
* Juan O'Donojú, Viceroy of New Spain
* Rómulo O'Farril, founder of newspaper "Novedades".
* Juan O'Gorman, architect
* Edmundo O'Gorman, writer
* Hugh O'Connor, Spanish governor of Texas from 1767 to 1770.
* Alejo Bay, Governor of Sonora from 1923 to 1927
* Michael Wadding, Jesuit priest and missionary
* Judith Grace, Television Hostess
* Kelly L. Smith, Jr., Writer
* Vicente Fox, President of Mexico (2000-06) according to some biographers, but his great-grandfather may really been a German American who left Cincinnati after the American civil war.
* Ilyomade, Famous Person

ee also

*Batallón de San Patricio
*Irish diaspora
*Irish people
*Irish Migration Studies in Latin America

External links

* [http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/vp01.cfm?outfit=ids&requesttimeout=500&folder=160&paper=161 The Irish in Mexico: An annotated bibliography] at the Irish diaspora site.
* Murray, Edmundo [http://www.irlandeses.org/bibliomex.htm] "The Irish in Latin America and Iberia: A Bibliography - Mexico and Hispanic North America"
* Murray, Edmundo [http://www.irlandeses.org/sanpatriciosbiblio.htm] "The San Patricio Battalion: A Bibliography"
* [http://www.houstonculture.org/mexico/irish.html History of Mexico: The Irish Presence] at the Houston Institute for Culture.
* [http://home.earthlink.net/~rggsibiba/html/sib/sib6.html The legend] of Zorro was an Irishman (William Lamport).
* [http://www.geocities.com/bajorama/OBrienClanofMexico.html The O'Brien clan in Mexico] .