William Bulfin was born in Co. Offaly and emigrated to Argentina in 1884 where he worked on a ranch in the pampas region. An author, journalist, newspaper editor and publisher, his pieces appeared in The Southern Cross, United Irishman and Sinn Fé in. In 1902 he wrote Rambles In Eirinn, an account of his travels around Ireland by bicycle on his return to his homeland. Following his death in 1910, his son Eamon was involved in the 1916 Easter Rising and his daughter Catalina married Seá n MacBride, a leading Irish republican who was the son of Maud Gonne and Major John MacBride.