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To Hell or Barbados: The ethnic cleansing of Ireland Paperback – July 18, 2001
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- Print length240 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBrandon
- Publication dateJuly 18, 2001
- Dimensions5 x 0.75 x 7.75 inches
- ISBN-100863222870
- ISBN-13978-0863222870
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I then visited Barbados to see if I could find grave stones of these people to gather more information about them. I did, which may have been a bad thing. In talking to locals I found that my ancestors' name was "all over the island."
After I returned to the US, I found reference to a song by Damien Dempsey entitled "To Hell or Barbados" which was inspired by this book. So I bought a copy of the paperback from Amazon.
I never knew of this period of Irish history and I found it very enlightening...and very disturbing. I had thought that my ancestors went to Barbados as indentured servants. As indentured servants they would have served a period of years and then released from servitude and given something, land or money, to pursue their lives. In reading this book, I found that somewhat unlikely.
If they were Irish, and there is some indication that they were, they were either (1) indentured servants, (2) slaves, (3) Irish planters, or (4) English planters. If they were English planters, they were the misbegotten, evil slave holders. Much like the African slaves, they were hunted down in their homeland, put aboard the same kind of slave transport ships where many died in chains and filth, and then sold to planters (sugar) on the dock at Bridgetown, Barbados.
The book is very good in telling this story, and as the author Sean O'Callaghan, died upon its publishing, wasn't able to see through to helping those Irish descendants still on the island who need help now.
From the time of Oliver Cromwell's ascent to power in England through the wars in Ireland, to the sugar industry on Barbados supported by African and Irish slaves transported there, made slaves there, flogged there, separated from their families there, bred there as cattle, and killed there, to the escaped Irish slaves who made their way into piracy, to the present day, this is a full and complete history. An amazing story!
I purchased this book here at amazon.com, and have just finished a first reading of it. I am stunned to learn the terrible truth of what my grandfather and my people endured on Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and elsewhere in the West Indies. My grandfather, though a slave, did marry a Scottish woman. His wife gave birth to two sons and then she died, along with the younger son. In sheer compassion for father and remaining son, a kind ship's captain arranged to have my ancestor and his remaining son come to Virginia Colony, where they began life anew. These things I learned while doing online research and reading the book concurrently.
I descend through his second wife, whom he married in Virginia Colony
Were it not for Sean O'Callaghan's caring, his carefully and completely incisive treatment of this ugly chapter in the history of England before it became Great Britain, and of the British Empire after the Act of Union of 1707, modern seekers of historical realities would be at a great loss. I do not wish to ignore the many other writers of history who also expose the barbarities thrust upon the Irish.
This book is not a quick read, at least not for me. Each and every sentence is of great importance; time is needed to absorb, digest and metabolize the poison of England's panoramic rush to destruction of the Irish race. Mr. O'Callaghan carries us through this painful panorama; to see it in his words is to experience the agonies of the Irish AND Scottish slaves.
He takes us further in time than the initial clapping in arms of the Irish. He brings us full circle to our current day, an Epilogue some would call it, and he invites us to accompany him to visit the descendants of Irish and Scottish slaves still living -- or rather, barely surviving -- in the West Indies. We discover their terrible plight today; the inexcusable poverty and racial prejudice thrust upon them, the ever-present class distinction which was NEVER vanquished, the utter hopelessness of an entire race of people who know not their own ancestors more than two generations back in time. And all this after 350 years of white slavery! We also witness their stubborn pride and fierce efforts to defend their small communities from all strangers.
Mr. O'Callaghan brings us to understand that these descendants are yet slaves; the reader must find out for himself why this is so.
This book, though not large in volume, packs a powerful WALLOP and is not for wimps or those who deny historical reality. This book is definitely a keeper and should be read at least three or four times so as to allow every truth presented therein to be well remembered and never forgotten.









