page_title: Irish Argentine
section_title: Economic activities
hierarchical_section_title: Irish Argentine / Economic activities
caption_attribution_description: Español: El presidente Mauricio Macri recibió en su despacho de la Casa Rosada las cartas de credenciales de los nuevos embajadores de Rusia, Dmitriy Feoktistov; de los Países Bajos, Roel Nieuwenkamp; de Irlanda, Jacqueline O’Halloran, y de Filipinas, Lingglingay Lancanlale.
context_page_description: Irish Argentines are Argentine citizens who are fully or partially of Irish descent. Irish emigrants from the Midlands, Wexford and many counties of Ireland arrived in Argentina mainly from 1830 to 1930, with the largest wave taking place in 1850–1870. The modern Irish-Argentine community is composed of some of their descendants, and the total number is estimated at 500,000–1,000,000.
  Argentina is the home of the fifth largest Irish community in the world, the largest in a non-English speaking nation and the greatest in Latin America.
context_section_description: The Irish immigrants settled mainly in Buenos Aires, the homonymous province, and the littoral provinces. Those in urban areas worked as labourers, merchants, employees, artisans, teachers, professionals and, increasingly after the 1860s and especially for women, as domestic servants. The Irish in the countryside worked as rural labourers, cattle dealers, and shepherds. Those in the flourishing sheep-farming business of 1840–1890 were most likely to succeed working as shepherds and sharing a half or a third of the produce in wool and lambs. In this way, some of them managed to rent and later purchase land.
  In Curumalal, Buenos Aires, and Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe, Eduardo Casey helped populate the agriculturally barren provinces, inviting more Irish and other immigrants to Argentina to work for him. This recommendation system was very active, and, with almost limitless amounts of land available, many Irish immigrants went on to do very well economically. This industry expanded to other places, eventually flourishing in the rest of Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Córdoba.
caption: President Mauricio Macri and Irish Ambassador in Argentina, Jacqueline O’Halloran.
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