The Irish Legion in Contemporary Colombian Children's Fiction: Jairo Buitrago's Los irlandeses

During the 1810s and 1820s thousands of Irishmen enlisted in the patriot armies of South America, many of them in the British and Irish Legions fighting with Simón Bolívar in the independence wars of  Venezuela and Colombia. Two hundred years later, Colombian writer Jairo Buitrago brings back the lives of those soldiers and officers in Los irlandeses, a short novel for young teenagers that vividly recreates the
harshness of the war and the sufferings and loyalty of those brave men. With a tho...