- John Creaghe
Dr. John O’Dwyer Creaghe (1841 -
February 19 1920 ), also known as Juan Creaghe, was an Irish-bornanarchist revolutionary.Creaghe was born in
Limerick , Ireland in 1841, and in 1865 he graduated from theRoyal College of Surgeons in Dublin, becoming a doctor. He opened up a practice inMitchelstown , Cork County. In 1874, he emigrated to theArgentine capitalBuenos Aires . It is unknown how Creaghe came in contact with anarchist ideas, since the the country's anarchist movement was small at the time, but he quickly became a follower of this idea. In 1890, he moved toSheffield ,England , working in a poor working class district with many Irish immigrants. He became involved in the Socialist League, aMarxist group led byWilliam Morris , but he soon broke away to form an anarchist group in Sheffield. On the group's first public appearance, it sported a banner reading "No God, No Master" at theMay Day demonstration. The group soon also founded a club and a newspaper, the "Sheffield Anarchist", which did not survive for long as it became caught up in theWalsall Anarchists ' trial. In 1892, he left Sheffield to go back to Argentina via Liverpool, London, and Spain. There he founded the newspaper "El Oprimido", forerunner of "La Protesta ", which exists to this day. He was involved in the founding of theArgentine Regional Workers' Federation , an anarchist trade union. He also contributed to theFree School movement inspired by the ideas of the Spanish anarchist pedagogueFrancisco Ferrer . In 1911, Creaghe left Argentina once again, eventually arriving inLos Angeles , where he collaborated with Mexican anarchists. He founded another newspaper, "La Regeneración", and was friends withRicardo Flores Magón . In 1910, both were involved in theBaja California revolt; after the start of theMexican Revolution , they supported the country's anarchist movement. Creaghe died on February 19, 1920 in aWashington, DC prison.References
*Catháin, Máirtín Ó: [http://www.irlandeses.org/cathain.htm Dr. John O’Dwyer Creaghe (1841-1920) Irish-Argentine Anarchist] . Society for Irish Latin American Studies. Accessed January 6, 2008.
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