Camila O'Gorman

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Camila O'Gorman

Camila O'Gorman (1828-1848), figure of scandal in post-independence Buenos Aires, was the youngest daughter of Adolfo O'Gorman and his wife, Joaquina Ximénez Pinto (d.1852). Camila was born the second-to-last of the six children of the O'Gorman family. Typical of an influential family in post colonial Argentina, two of her brothers went on to pursue admirable careers in Argentine society. One sought a position in the priesthood, and the other as police chief and the eventual founder of the Buenos Aires Police Academy.

In 1847 Camila O'Gorman and the Catholic priest Uladislao Gutiérrez eloped on horseback and found refuge in Corrientes Province. They were betrayed by the Irish priest Michael Gannon and on the orders of Buenos Aires governor Juan Manuel de Rosas executed by a firing squad on 18 August 1848 in the Argentine prison town of Santos Lugares. Camila O'Gorman was twenty years old and was eight-months pregnant.

[edit] Film

María Luisa Bemberg, Camila (Buenos Aires, 1984), film with Susú Pecoraro, Imanol Arias and Héctor Alterio (1 hour 45 minutes). Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1985.

[edit] Further reading

Coghlan, Eduardo A., Los Irlandeses en Argentina: su Actuación y Descendencia (Buenos Aires, 1987), p. 420.
Julianello, Maria Teresa, The Scarlet Trinity: The Doomed Struggle of Camila O'Gorman against Family, Church and State in 19th-Century Buenos Aires (Cork: Irish Centre for Migration Studies, 2000).
Luna, Félix (ed.), Camila O'Gorman (Buenos Aires: Planeta, 2002).