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In 2016, 1.4 million Irish citizens visited Spain for tourism. At the same time, 263,000 Spanish tourists visited Ireland. [14] In 2016, 35,000 Spanish nationals studied English in Ireland. [14] Several Irish and Spanish airlines provide direct services between both nations.
Irish immigration to Puerto Rico began during the 16th century after the Spanish had colonized the island and has continued to the present day. During the 1500s, several Irish mercenaries in English service deserted and fled to the Spanish Empire, some of whom made their way to Puerto Rico. Many of these Irishmen served in the Spanish garrison ...
The belief that the Gaelic Irish were descended from Míl Espáine and his Spanish followers was current in Spain as well as Ireland, and as a result the Irish in Spain were given all the rights and privileges due to Spanish subjects, such as automatic citizenship granted to Irish Catholics who made it to Spanish territory. [21]
Dolores Creel Miranda, Mexican artist of Irish descent; Philip Crosthwaite, born in Ireland, was an early settler of San Diego, California and Rosarito, Baja California; Aarón Díaz Spencer, Mexican actor, singer, and model to Irish-American mother; Cristina Fink, retired high jumper of Spanish, Dutch, Irish, and German descent
Kerney Walsh joined the staff of the Overseas Archives in UCD in 1954 when it was established by Professor Patrick McBride. She published The O'Neills in Spain and The McDonnells of Antrim on the Continent in 1960, along with the first in her four-volume Spanish knights of Irish origin with the subsequent volumes appearing in 1965, 1970, and 1978.
A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Irish bishop David O’Connell in Los Angeles County in California. Carlos Medina, aged 65, is the husband of the bishop’s housekeeper ...
The prospect of a Spanish landing alarmed the Dublin government of Queen Elizabeth I, which prescribed harsh measures for the Spanish invaders and any Irish who might assist them. Up to 24 ships of the Armada were wrecked on a rocky coastline spanning 500 km, from Antrim in the north to Kerry in the south, and the threat to Crown authority was ...
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