Uploaded by flats1916 on Mar 2, 2008
This is the shocking, previously untold story of over 50,000 Irish men, women and children who were transported to Barbados and Virginia between 1652 and 1659. The motivation for the initial transportation of the Irish was expressed by King James I of England: "Root out the Papists and fill it [Ireland] with Protestants."
From a search that began in the library of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society and its files on Irish slaves, Sean O'Callaghan for the first time documents the history of their transportation, the conditions in which they lived on the plantations and their rebellions in Barbados. To Hell or Barbados manages to put a few names and faces on those otherwise anonymous victims of slavery.
Excerpted from To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland by Sean O'Callaghan.
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The slavery of the Irish and Scottish has been washed away; I'm an aspiring musician myself and my favorite genre is reggae.
When I was in Jamaica a couple of years ago and I mentioned that I had a lot of Irish in my ancestry, many people I spoke to were thrilled and began talking about the history of Irish slaves on their island. In fact, to this day, many Jamaicans consider the Irish their "cousins".
Peter Tosh often said he loved the Irish because they knew the struggle for freedom.
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That is why the Jamaican accent has a similarity to that of the Irish.
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Absolutely brilliant...........I can feel the pain of my ancestors every time I listen to this. Some songs transcend music , this is a piece of historical art
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@spraoi111 i love that book
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@scottishwar4 it doz but we wont take it as a leg up the way jews do i dont talk about such things with none gael coz that wud b piss an wineing we dont do that we are humble yet proud like bobby sands rip
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Очень красивый голос!!! Brilliant voice!!! Kaunis!!!
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@flats1916 course he does ya bollox
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Hell or Barbados..!
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@celticboxingfan music is not history to you. you were not born in times of trouble, when we had trouble we dealt with it and still are
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i need lyrics!!
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You wont catch that shell of a man eoghan harris writing about this ! #sindo
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@celticboxingfan amen brother but many people wont listen to what i tell them
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He doesn't have a strong Dublin accent are u takin d piss
flats1916 1 year ago 4