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 (3^rd. 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