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 To Hell or Barbados The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland
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  To Hell or Barbados The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland


  Format: Paperback
  Category: History
  ISBN: 9780863222870
  Publication Date: Available
 
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Description
The previously untold story of over 50,000 Irish men, women and children who were transported to Barbados and Virginia.

Sean O’Callaghan for the first time documents the history of these people: their transportation, the conditions in which they lived on plantations as slaves or servants, and their rebellions in Barbados.

“A fascinating read.” The Sunday Tribune

“Essential reading.” Irish Examiner

“An illuminating insight into a neglected episode in Irish history, but its significance is much broader than that. Its main achievement is to situate the story of colonialism in Ireland in the much larger context of worldwide European imperialism. O’Callaghan’s description of seventeenth century Barbados is a powerful portrait of a society as brutal, corrupt and unjust as anything the twentieth century has to offer. Yet it is precisely societies like colonial Barbados and Virginia which lie at the root of our modern world. That is why To Hell or Barbados is such a valuable book.” Irish World
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Author
Sean O’Callaghan was born in Kilavullen, County Cork in 1918 and died in Malta in 2000. A commissioned officer in the Irish army in the 1930s and ’40s, he became a journalist first in Fleet Street, later in Africa.

He is the author of fourteen previous books, including The Slave Trade in Africa, which was translated into thirteen languages and filmed by Malovotti of Rome
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