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The Irish Slave Trade The early slave trade in the 1600s is well documented with misery inflicted upon possibly up to 11 million people torn forcibly from West Africa to labour in appalling conditions in the the United States and the Caribbean. History Journal has uncovered fascinating research into the role of Irish people exposed to the same suffering in the early
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Cromwell's "ethnic cleansing" Following the Confederation wars and Irish Rebellion of 1641, Oliver Cromwell set sail for Ireland from Milford Haven in 1649. His mission was to revenge the massacres of 1641 and to bring Ireland firmly under English rule. His forces numbered about 20,000 troops and the slaughter and
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Indentured Servants The islands of the West Indies began to be colonised by English planters in the 1600s, growing sugar and tobacco for export to Europe. This trade required large quantities of manual labourers to toil in the fields, once the native Carrib peoples had been suppressed. There began a policy of bringing Irish and English people to the
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August In Irish History

Some remarkable anniversaries for August in Irish history

 

August 1800 - The Act of Union was passed dissolving the Irish Parliament and creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The Act remained on the statutes in Ireland until 1962.

August 1870 - Gladstone's first Land Act passed introducing some limited land reforms. It gave force of law to the 'Ulster Custom', provided compensation for evicted tenants and allowed tenants to borrow from Government to buy their holdings.

August 1916 - The final leader of the 1916 Rising, Roger Casement was hanged for treason in Pentonville Prison. His trial led to a re-interpretation of the Treason Act which led to the accusation that Casement was 'hanged on a comma'.

August 1922 - General Michael Collins was killed in an IRA ambush at Beal na mBlath in Co Cork while on a journey from Bandon to Macroom.

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White Cargo

White Cargo

White Cargo by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh - Mainstream Publishing Don Jordan and Michael Walsh have produced an excellent review of the trade in human cargo from Ireland and England in the 17th Century. Up to 300,000 people, mostly politicial prisoners, the poor, vagrants and street children across...

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To Hell or Barbados

To Hell or Barbados

To Hell or Barbados by Sean O'Callaghan - Brandon Press O'Callaghan has brought together some excellent research on the 1600s in Ireland, covering Cromwell's campaigns, the mass population movements to Connaught and the forced transportation of over 50,000 Irish people to the Caribbean in the 1650s....

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Katharine TynanBorn near Dublin in 1859, Katharine Tynan was a prolific author and leading Irish literary figure.

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