in Argentina Jorge Brown (1880-1936), footballer and cricketer Roberto Cavanagh (1914-2002), polo player and Olympic gold medallist 1936 Agustín Creevy (born 1985), rugby player Oscar Furlong (1927-2018), basketball player Arturo Kenny (1888- ? ), polo player and Olympic gold medalist (Paris 1924) The Mac Allister family of footballers: Patricio Mac Allister (born 1966) Carlos Mac Allister (born 1968), brother of Patricio, also a politician Francis Mac Allister (born 1995), oldest son of Carlos Kevin Mac Allister (born 1997), middle son of Carlos Alexis Mac Allister (born 1998), youngest son of Carlos Jorge Alejandro Newbery (1875-1914), pilot, sportsman, public officer, engineer and scientist. He is especially remembered for being the architect and founder of the Argentine air force Santiago Phelan (born 1974), rugby player and coach of the Argentina rugby team Los Pumas Clergy Patrick Joseph Dillon (1842–1889), priest and politician, founder of The Southern Cross newspaper Anthony Dominic Fahy (1805–1871), Irish Catholic priest, member of the Dominican Order, missionary and de facto head of the Irish community in Argentina between 1844 until 1871, the year of his death. Other Cecilia Grierson (1859–1934), first female physician in Argentina Violet Jessop (1887–1971), ocean liner stewardess and nurse who is known for surviving the disastrous sinkings of both and her sister ship, , in 1912 and 1916 Norma Nolan (born 1938), first Argentine woman to win the Miss Universe title Guillermo O'Donnell (1936-2011), political scientist Elvira Rawson (1867–1954), second woman to get a medical degree in Argentina in 1892 and a prominent feminist fighter for equal rights for men and women Irish community today This Irish community in Argentina is the largest in any non-English speaking country in the world and is the fifth largest in the world. The Irish community in Argentina still try to keep up the inherited traditions and to rescue those other traditions that have been lost over time. It is estimated that there are over one million Irish descendants in modern-day Argentina. See also Argentina-Ireland relations References Bibliography Coghlan, Eduardo A. Los Irlandeses en la Argentina: Su Actuación y Descendencia (Buenos Aires, 1987). Coghlan, Eduardo A. El Aporte de los Irlandeses a la Formación de la Nación Argentina (Buenos Aires, 1982). Healy, Claire. Migration from Ireland to Buenos Aires, 1776–1890 (PhD Thesis, NUI, Galway, 2005). James Hardiman Library, NUI, Galway. McKenna, Patrick. Nineteenth Century Irish Emigration to, and Settlement in, Argentina (St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare: MA