President officially opens the “Irish in Latin America Exhibition”

Speech at the opening of an Exhibition on the Irish in Latin America

President Michael D. Higgins opened an exhibition celebrating the role of Irish immigrants in Latin America and highlighting Ireland and Latin America’s shared history of colonialism and subsequent independence and revolutionary struggles. 

The exhibition features prominent Irish figures involved in independence and revolutionary struggles across Latin America and tells the story of Irish men and women who migrated to different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.