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Ché Guevara, the epitome of South American revolutionary spirit, was the son of Ernesto Guevara Lynch. In Spanish culture, people generally add their mother’s maiden name to their own surname, so in this case Ernesto’s mother’s family were Lynches, descended from Patrick Lynch, born in Galway in 1715. Ernesto once said of his son, ‘The first thing to note is that in my son’s veins flowed the blood of the Irish rebels.’ Ché visited Ireland in 1965, enjoying an evening out at Hanratty’s Hotel, Limerick, sporting a sprig of shamrock for St. Patrick’s Day. He was less Irish, however, than that other great Latin-American maverick, Zorro, ‘the Fox’, whose amorous adventures brought him to an untimely end in 1659. The great swashbuckler had in fact been born William Lamport in Co. Wexford in 1615.