Books like To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland

As an Irishman with an interest in history I couldn't put this down.It is a short enough book and a very interesting read. The Irish were often persecuted in Irelandthroughout our long history but it seems to me there is very little knowledge among the averageIrish person about the experiences of our ancestors in the Carribbean.This book was given to me by my father who has lived in Jamaica for ten years.The Jamaican patois word for potatoe is 'Irish' apparently. Many Jamaicans haveIrish surnames also. Although this book is concerned with Barbados the abovepoints have always intrigued me. In reading this book you get a better understandingof why these are the case especially considering Ireland was never a collonial powerand although a nation of immigrants we never willingly bade our farewells en-masse on boatsheading for the Carribean. We were in fact sent there in chains as human capital.I simply had no idea that Irish people were traded as slaves In the sugar plantations andthis came as shock to me.