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Subject: Re: Black Irish.
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 22:14:50 GMT


Molly Harrington () wrote:
: There is also a book that discusses the intermingling of Irish and
: native Caribbean peoples. The title is something like "Who were the Black
: Irish". It has to do with that time in Irish history when Cromwell had
: hundreds of Irish shipped to Caribbean islands as slaves. If anyone's
: interested, I could try to run down the correct title.

Not the title you are referring to, nor is it what people mean when they
say "black Irish", but for the subject of blacks of Irish descent in the
Caribbean, see:

http://homepages.iol.ie/~irishrts/Montserrat.html
Blacks of Irish descent in the Caribbean

This, and other useful links, can be reached from the TIARA web site.

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