An Irish Independent article on property investment in Barbados also reminds us of the dark days of the sugar plantations of the seventeenth century. Many of the Irish arrived there after Oliver Cromwell took them off their land and sold them into slavery or indenture to British planters. Estimates of the numbers of Irish transported… Continue reading A reminder of the Irish in Barbados
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Dunbrody ship to become centre for emigration history
The Dunbrody Visitor Centre will be transformed into a new national emigration history centre, thanks to a 1.88 million-euro grant under the National Development Programme. The New Ross Standard is reporting that the funding, provided by the Department for Arts, Sport and Tourism, will be used for the provision of additional exhibits and functions, including:… Continue reading Dunbrody ship to become centre for emigration history
Exhibition on Irish in Europe opens
“Strangers to Citizens: the Irish in Europe, 1600 – 1800” has opened at the National Library’s Genealogical Office on Kildare Street in Dublin. The exhibition tells the story of the Irish who went to continental Europe from the time of the Flight of the Earls. It shows that the Irish left for a variety of… Continue reading Exhibition on Irish in Europe opens
John Boyle O’Reilly Summer School: September, 2007
The Flight of the Earls is the subject of this year’s John Boyle O’Reilly Summer School, hosted by The Old Drogheda Society. Speakers will include Dr Patrick Fitzgerald of the Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster American Folk Park in Omagh, who will speak on “The Flight of the Earls and the Origins of… Continue reading John Boyle O’Reilly Summer School: September, 2007
Journalist who chronicled emigration’s losses honoured
The author of a seminal work on Irish emigration will be honoured by having a road named after him in his hometown. Journalist John Healy was a crusading journalist who wrote “Nobody Shouted Stop” (also called “Death of an Irish Town”) in 1968; the work details the losses suffered by Charlestown, Co Mayo in the middle… Continue reading Journalist who chronicled emigration’s losses honoured
Flight of the Earls commemorated
The four-hundredth anniversary of the Flight of the Earls, one of the seminal events in the early history of emigration from Ireland is being commemorated this year. The Flight of the Earls, of course, marked the end of the old Gaelic aristocracy. Hugh O’Neill and Rory O’Donnell, fearing arrest by the new Lord Deputy of… Continue reading Flight of the Earls commemorated