Chilean refugees settle here after military coup

FOLLOWING the military coup d’etat ousting the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile on September 11, 1973, some 25,000 were forced to flee the country.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Amnesty International appealed to Ireland and other countries to offer refuge.

Garret FitzGerald, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, informed the Dáil on February 20, 1974, that a number of Chilean refugees would be admitted to Ireland.