"They've had too much of a stranglehold on everything in the Irish community."

But within the Irish community, these tactics met with overwhelming disapproval.

Of the 20,000 that remained, between 10,000 and 15,000 left no descendants or lost any link they had to the local Irish community.

Argentina is the home of the fifth largest Irish community in the world.

And now there's no specific need to be integrated into an Irish immigrant community.

The dispute has become a major issue in the Irish community.

It was once the site of an early Irish monastic community.

He did not talk about this with the Irish Protestant community.

"He's someone the entire Irish community is proud of and looks up to," he said.

To serve the expanding Irish immigrant community, a school opened soon after the church.