We are happy to announce a new issue of "Irish Migration Studies in Latin America" (www.irlandeses.org), the open-access journal of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies. The following contents are available in www.irlandeses.org.

ISSN 1661-6065
Volume 4, Number 4 (October 2006)
Editors: Edmundo Murray, Claire Healy, Helen Kelly

TABLE OF CONTENTS

- Ireland and Mexico, by Seamus O Fogartaigh (page 1)

- Irish Mexican, Latino Irlandes: Fountains of Literary Invention, by David Vela (5)

- Contemporary Irish Mexican Gatherings and Forays in California: The Irish Mexican Association (IMA), 1994-2007, by Patrick Goggins (11)

- Mexico and Neocolonialism: An Irish perspective, by Tony Phillips (16)

- Reviving the Saint Patrick's Battalion, by Dan Leahy (including The Saint Patrick's Battalion, a song by David Rovics) (23)

- John Dynamite: The Adventures of a Filibuster, by Jose Antonio Quintana Garcia (31)

- St. Patrick’s Day in Buenos Aires: An Expression of Urban Folk Tradition, by Maria Ines Palleiro, Patricio Parente and Flora Delfino Kraft (35)

- Interview: The Musical Migration of Rodrigo y Gabriela, by Claire Healy (47)

- Poem: Saint Patrick pray, pray for all of us, pray for me, by Ivan Portela (52)

- Sources: 'La vida no es de nadie - todos somos la vida': Address by the President of Ireland Mary McAleese to the Senate in Mexico, 6 April 1999, edited by Edmundo Murray (53)

- Sources: Bernardo O'Higgins' Plans: The Arrival of Irish Immigrants in Mexico, edited by Fabian G. Bustamante Olguin (59)

- Review of Roberto E. Landaburu's 'Irlandeses en la Pampa Gringa: curas y ovejeros', by Ana M. Castello (61)

- Review of Maria Inés Palleiro's (ed.) 'San Patricio en Buenos Aires: Celebraciones y rituales en su dimension narrativa', by Irina Ionita (66)

- Review of Mark Day's documentary film 'The San Patricios: The Tragic Story of the St. Patrick's Battalion', by William H. Mulligan, Jr. (71)

- William Lamport [Guillén Lombardo] (1610-1659), author of an early declaration of Mexican independence and self-proclaimed 'King of New Spain', by Ryan Dominic Crewe (74)

- Tomas Antonio O'Horan (1776-1848), public official in Mexico and Guatemala, by Fabian G. Bustamante Olguin (77)

- Arthur Sandes (1793-1832), commander of the Rifles Battalion in the South American wars of independence, by Moises Enrique Rodriguez (78)

- Miguel Godinez [formerly Michael Wadding] (1591-1644), Jesuit missionary to New Spain (81)

- Romulo Antonio O'Farrill [Jr.] (1917-2006), media entrepreneur (82)

- Edmundo O'Gorman (1906-1995), historian (84)

- Juan O'Gorman (1905-1982), Mexican architect and artist (86)

- Pablo O'Higgins [formerly Paul Higgins Stevenson] (1904-1983), artist and art teacher in Mexico (88)