John Creaghe

John Creaghe
John Creaghe
	United States of America
Other names	Juan Creaghe
Alma mater	Royal College of Surgeons
Occupation(s)	Doctor, Educator

John O’Dwyer Creaghe (1841 – February 19, 1920), also known as Juan Creaghe, was an Irish-born

anarchist

.

Background

Creaghe was born in Limerick, Ireland in 1841, and in 1865 he graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, becoming a doctor. He opened up a practice in Mitchelstown in County Cork. In 1874, he emigrated to the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires.

In Argentina

It is not known how Creaghe came in contact with

anarchist ideas, since the country's anarchist movement was small at the time. It's speculated he may have come into contact with the Italian Anarchist Errico Malatesta, who was in Argentina between 1885 and 1889.^[1]

In England

In 1890, he moved to

Marxist group led by William Morris, but he soon broke away to form an anarchist group in Sheffield. On the group's first public appearance, it sported a banner reading "No God, No Master" at the May Day demonstration. The group soon also founded a club and a newspaper, the Sheffield Anarchist, which did not survive for long as it became caught up in the Walsall Anarchists

' trial.

In 1891 Creaghe wrote "give me Anarchists willing to die NOW if necessary for Anarchy, and if you can find me 15 or 20 to join me I promise you we will make an oppression of the enemy" [1]

Return to the Americas

In 1892, he left Sheffield to go back to Argentina via Liverpool, London, and Spain. There he founded the newspaper El Oprimido, forerunner of

Washington, DC.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Ó Catháin, Máirtín (2004). "Dr. John O'Dwyer Creaghe (1841-1920): Irish-Argentine Anarchist". Society for Irish Latin American Studies. Retrieved 13 March 2022.

[libcom-1] Ó Catháin, Máirtín (2004). "Dr. John O'Dwyer Creaghe (1841-1920): Irish-Argentine Anarchist". Society for Irish Latin American Studies. Retrieved 13 March 2022.

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