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  title info:
    title: Don Juan O'Brien
    sub title: an Irish adventurer in nineteenth-century South America
  name:
    name part: Fanning, Tim
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ie
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: spa
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 172 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This is the first comprehensive study of John Thomond O'Brien, one of the most significant Irish-born figures in the history of modern South America. Born in Baltinglass, County Wicklow, in the late eighteenth-century, O'Brien emigrated to Buenos Aires in the second decade of the nineteenth century, hoping to profit from the burgeoning trade in textiles between Britain and Ireland and the River Plate. In 1813, in Buenos Aires, he enlisted as a cavalry officer in the armies fighting against Spanish rule. His actions on the battlefield, which contributed to the achievement of independence in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay, and his close acquaintance with the two most famous generals of the war, Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar, brought him renown in South America and Europe. O'Brien criss-crossed South America during his colorful postwar career, spending time in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil and Uruguay. In the 1820s, he promoted Irish emigration to Argentina, launched the highest sailing ship in the world on Lake Titicaca and led the campaign of support for O'Connell and Catholic Emancipation among the Irish in Buenos Aires. In the 1830s, he explored the Amazon for gold and was imprisoned in Buenos Aires by the dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas. In the 1840s, he represented the Montevidean government in London and Paris. During the last decade of his life, before his death in 1861, he campaigned to have monuments erected across South America to the leaders of the independence campaign. O'Brien's compelling story mirrors that of a tumultuous period in Irish and South American history.
  note: Tim Fanning.
  note: Includes quotations in Spanish, translated into English.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: s------
  subject:
    name:
      name part: O'Brien, John Thomond
  subject:
    geographic: South America
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: South America
    topic: History
    temporal: Wars of Independence, 1806-1830
  classification: F2235.5.O34 F36 2020
  classification: 980/.02092
  identifier: 9781782053828
  identifier: 1782053824
  identifier: 9781782053835
  identifier: 9781782053842
  identifier: 9781782053859
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191215
    record change date: 20201020070906.0
    record identifier: in00004099740