Links Between Brazil and Ireland: 1700-1800

 

1888                      Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift was the 1st. work by an Irish author ever published in Brazil - Laemmart & Cia Rio.

 

7-11.07.1877       Dom Pedo II, Emperor of Brazil paid a five-day visit to Ireland with the Empress of Brazil as part of a U.S. / European tour that lasted 18 months.

In 2009 Peter O´Neill published on article about the visit based on reports published in six Irish newspaper dated 1877 - http://gogobrazil.com/dompedroirl.html

 

1876                      Hamilton Lindsay-Bucknall spent some time in Brazil and wrote A Search for Fortune - The Autobiography of a Younger Son. A Narrative of Travel and Adventure (London 1878). He presented a project and drawings to the Emperor to build “The Rio de Janeiro and Nictheroy Tunnel Railway” (copies at Rio´s National library). The project was approved by Decree Law No. 6.138 of 4 March 1876 and published in Gazeta Oficial (official diary), but it did not go ahead due to lack of financing.

 

1869                      Clube dos Fenianos (Fenian Club), a carnival club inspired by the Fenians, was founded in Rio.

 

1867                      Arrival of Irish settlers from the U.S. & U.K. to the Colônia Príncipio Dom Pedro (1867-1868), popularly known as Colônia dos Irlandeses,

located on the right hand side of the Itajaí-Mirim River, Brusque, Santa Catarina State. The colony failed.

 

1860s                    “Petition to Pope Pius the Ninth by potential Irish emigrants to Brazil”. Introduced and edited by Oliver Marshall (SILAS) - http://www.irlandeses.org/0607marshall1.htm

 

1866                      ‘Brazil, its provinces, and chief cities, the manners and customs of the people, agriculture, commerce and other statistics …’ published by Irish born editor William Scully - a book that was basically a prospectus for potential investors and immigrants. http://irishargentine.org/0607_175to176.pdf

1865                      William Scully, the first Irish born newspaperman in Rio was the founder and editor of The Anglo Brazilian Times, Rio (1865-1884). The promotion of Irish emigration to Brazil was the main aim of the publication. He founded the Sociedade Internacional de Imigração in 1866. Microfil copies of the newspaper are kept at Rio´s National Library. Index Number: PR-SOR 3279 (1-2) - http://www.gogobrazil.com/angloirishpress.html  Biography by Edmundo Murray (SILAS) - http://www.irlandeses.org/dilab_scullyw.htm   For a well-researched background on the publication, see:.

MARSHALL, Oliver., The English-Language Press in Latin America (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1996).

 

1850-1864           A small town named after St. Patrick (Vila Antiga) existed for 14 years in the State of Goiás (GO),

 

1842                      John Joaquim Fleming was an Irishman who participated in a Revolutionary Movement in São Paulo (June - July 1842).  A descendent, Francisco de Almeida Fleming (08.07.1900 - 1998), was one of the pioneers of Brazilian cinema - http://www.tvuai.com.br/pousoalegre/pa153/artes2.html  (3rd. paragraph)

http://www.avozdacidade.com/portal/colunas/historiasefatos/htm000020018.asp

 

Oct.. 1836             Bartholomew Hayden, (1792-1857) became a Captain in Brazil´s Navy (Capitão-de-Mar-e-Guerra).

Biography by Brian Vale - http://www.irlandeses.org/dilab_haydenb.htm

 

13.07.1829           Correspondence about an Irish colony in Ilheus, Bahia. National Library Rio, Ms II - 33.28.52  The colony failed.

07.08.1828           Municipal Chamber of Valença, Bahia, manuscript relating to Irish colonies during that period. National Library Rio, index No. Ms. II - 33.20.57

Taperoá:  http://www.socio-estatistica.com.br/municipios/municipio6.htm

 

11.06.1828           Joze Ignacio da Silva wrote to Conde do Rio Pardo about the Emperor´s call for the use of troops to quell an Irish rebellion.

National Library Rio, Index No. Ms. II - 34,15,15

1828                      Parliament in Rio (Câmara dos Deputados) debated the Irish uprising.

National Library Rio, Index Nos. Periódicos: 8.268,1 and V,79,1,11 (original) Tomo (part)1,197-202

9-12.06.1828       Uprising of Irish mercenaries in Rio described by Robert Walsh (Waterford 1722 - Finglas 1852) - http://www.capoeira-palmares.fr/histor/walsh.htm

Related article: Irish Mercenaries in 19th century Brazil By Dr. Eileen A Sullivan - http://gogobrazil.com/mercenaries.html

 

1826                      The first importation of Irish whiskey was aboard one of the ships that transported c. 3,169  Irish people from Cork to Rio. Source: MS., Arquivo Nacional Rio.

 

1826                      Irish-born Coronel William Cotter sent to Cork to recruit mercenaries for Brazil´s arm.

(Biography by Edmundo Murray - SILAS) - http://www.irlandeses.org/dilab_cotterw.htm

 

1808                      Irish butchers contracted to help develop the local meat industry in Rio Grande do Sul.

 

21.10.1808           Project to establish an Irish colony in the Province of Rio Grande in 1807. Ms. National Library Rio,

 

May-Jun 1802     James Tucker, an Irish Naval Officer, paid a 20 day visit to Rio en route to Australia on H.M.S. Calcutta, and wrote interesting accounts

about Rio society and politics in a book: ‘An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip … New South Wales’. (London, 1805).

 

31.01.1790           Portugal, SP, RJ - Narcisa Emília O´Leary from Cork married José Bonafácio de Andrada in Lisbon.

He later became known as the Founding Father of Brazil´s Independence - http://gogobrazil.com/neoleary.html

 

1777                      The Hibernian Regiment, one of three Irish units in the Spanish Armada that landed in Southern Brazil, briefly occupied Santa Catarina Island (SC).

 

1770                      The first recorded St. Patrick´s Day celebration in Brazil appears to have been on 17 March 1770 at a church built in honor of the saint by Lancelot Belfort (1708 - 1775) on his estate at Kylrue on the Iparecurú River, Maranhão State (MA) - http://www.geneall.net/P/forum_msg.php?id=8362&fview=e

A Casa de Belfort no Brasil - http://www.bycable.com.br/clientes/oftalmo/casa1.htm

 

1750                      Fr. Thomas Lynch of Galway was Provincial of the Jesuits in Brazil from 1750-1754.

 

c. 1750                  An image in wood, said to be of St. Patrick, was carved in the town of Ceres, State of Goiás. In c. 1733 a river in the same state was named after

St. Patrick by two Portuguese missionaries. By c.1800 all the region was known as the ‘Valley of St. Patrick’ - http://gogobrazil.com/stpatrickinbrazil.html

Related article: http://oglobo.globo.com/rio/mat/2009/03/05/artigo-belford-ou-belfort-roxo-754698404.asp