Hermógenes Irisarri Trucíos (April 19, 1819 – July 22, 1886), was a Chilean poet, journalist, diplomat and political figure.
[1] He began his career as a public writer in " El Seminario," of Santiago in 1840, and was a contributor in prose and verse to a number of the literary papers and magazines of Chile.
In 1860 he was honored by the five Central American republics with the appointment as their representative in Chile, and in 1863 went in that capacity to Peru, where for some time he was editor of the political paper "El Heraldo de Lima."
Under President Federico Errázuriz Zañartu, he was councillor of state, but in 1877 resigned to live in retirement on his estate at Quilpue.
His poems include "Al Sol de Septiembre," "A San Martin," and "La Mujer Adultera.