[Transcript]Once upon a time, there was a family from Europe who got on a boat. A husband and wife, seeking for better shores, rode for weeks to get to the promised land of South America. There, they hoped to build a better life.In fact, the woman was pregnant! But… what she would never imagine, was that her baby was going to be born on the boat! The first land that baby would ever see was the soil of the recently founded Republic of Argentina.Welcome to Further Records, the podcast where you can stay One Step Ahead of Your English practice. I'm your host, Forest.Tales like the one you just heard were pretty common back in the day.Let's be honest. Everybody has a story of immigration in their family tree. Humanity has taken to new sights and territories for thousands of years! In Argentina, a large part of the population has immigrant grandparentsNearly three million Italian immigrants came to Argentina in the late 19th century. But did you know that Argentina has a pretty big history with Irish immigration?In the 19th century, around (https://www.historyireland.com/the-irish-road-to-argentina/)forty thousand immigrants from Ireland arrived in Argentina in search of a better quality of life (https://www.historyireland.com/the-irish-road-to-argentina/), and many of them decided to settle in places like Buenos Aires City, Córdoba and Santa Rosa, La Pampa.Many Irishmen and women sought to make the shores of the La Plata river into their new homes. Settlements were formed, families were raised, farms were… farmed! The whole thing, it was a huge boom in population!Until… the end of the century. Let’s go all the way back to 1889. In those times, an Irish Archbishop published in the newspaper:“Buenos Aires is a most cosmopolitan city into which the Revolution (...) has brought the scum of Europe(...).I most solemnly conjure my poorer countrymen(...) never to set foot on the Argentine Republic however tempted to do so they may be by offers of a passage or an assurance of comfortable homes.”That publication was already pretty depressing to say about our country. But then, the Dresden Affair happened. At that time, some 2000 Irish immigrants were aboard the ship named City of Dresden. Most of them unfortunately died along the way, leaving very few survivors. Some of them were children, who were left to fend for themselves on the streets of Buenos Aires. And to make things worse, everybody's luggage was completely lost, leaving them with no possessions. And it that point, farmland was increasingly worse for them.