President Michael D Higgins pays tribute to Argentina's Irish diaspora

Curitiba - you make an excellent and thoughtful point. thank you. got me thinking about what you said.

Tayandcake: Yes, but that is only one way of building an empire. That way is expensive, costs lives and because of the amount of force required to maintain it, doomed to failure. Ireland's empire is not one of governments and border and armies and civil servants based in various outposts. Ireland'e empire is its people. Wherever there are Irish people, that is Ireland. Camden Town in the 1960's WAS Ireland. They don't say New York was Irish for nothing. And of course Buenos Aires Is Irish, for as long as the Irish people there regard themselves as such. Ireland is nothing special in this empire:it just happens to be where the greatest concentration of Irish people live.

"(Remember the Malvinas War? G.B. calls them the Falkland Islands )" Yes, the Malvinas are one in a long line of examples of british global larceny. Britain is more of a crime syndicate than a nation.

Curitiba, Liams right, those Europe countries took things by force. Gun beats spears it seems. Irelands idea of a Empire is to built a pub in an area and have lock ins.

Well, I'm glad the Argentinian Irish are taking a bit of interest in the Anglophone Irish Diaspora. I had a friend from Wales who could speak Welsh and he went to Chubut province to that town where the speak Welsh, Y Wladfa. He could speak no Castellano, and they no English, so they communicated in Welsh. A pity the Irish language has not been disseminated amongst the Diaspora in the same way. That would be a proper cultural experience, people from two different Irish communities in communicating in Irish because neither of you know each other's first language.

Curitiba: I don't know, but close enough!!

ancavker: Plastico Patrico's hahahahahahaha!Good one. Is that grammatically correct in Castellano though?

Liam3494: No, but we did!

Ancavkar - they probably never heard of them.

curitiba: I wonder what some of the Irish in Ireland would call the Irish in Argentina Plastico Patrico's

Los Isla Malvinas Argentine.

I have had the pleasure of visiting several S. American countries and meeting our wonderful Irish cousins there. Truly terrific people and a great experience!!

hybernia: Her "looks" that you find attractive are the product of plastic surgery. As they say in Argentina, she is "operada".

The Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is rather beautiful isn't she.

sounds like a nice place to visit...The President of Ireland makes us proud...a true scholar..