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The Irish in Latin America and Iberia
A Bibliography
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By Edmundo
Murray |
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The Caribbean |
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Akenson, Donald Harman,
If the Irish Ran the World:
Montserrat, 1630-1730 (Liverpool: Liverpool University
Press, 1997). |
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Anderson, Eileen, "An Alternative View to
the Propaganda: The Irish-American Press and the
Spanish-American War" in Irish Migration Studies in Latin
America 5:3 (November 2007), pp. 163-170. [document] |
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Bailey, C.
'Metropole and colony: Irish networks and patronage in the
eighteenth-century empire' in Immigrants and Minorities,
23:2-3 (July 2005), pp. 161-181. 'It explores the
relationships between ethnicity, patronage and place by
focusing on a group of Irish professionals. By piecing
together connections between lawyers, merchants and medical
doctors in various places including Ireland, London, Jamaica
and Senegambia, this essay suggests that Irish networks were
flexible enough to allow for dialogue, disagreement and
change, but were also durable enough to transcend time and
space' (from the abstract). |
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Beattie, Michael (director), The Other Emerald Isle
(1986), documentary about the 'Black Irish' of Montserrat and
their intermingling with the African slaves of the
plantations. Many Caribbean black people with Irish surnames
claim to be descended from Irish indentured labourers.
Sponsor: Channel Four (UK), production company: DBA
Television, editor: Mathilde Blum, photography: David Barker,
presenter and co-writer: Michael D. Higgins. Aired by Channel
Four on 16 March 1986. |
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Beckles, Hillary McD, 'Riotous and Unruly Lot': Irish
Indentured Servants and Freedmen in the English West Indies,
1644-1713 in 'William and Mary Quarterly' third ser., 57
(1990), pp. 502-522. |
● Bjork, David K, Alexander O'Reilly and the Spanish
Occupation of Louisiana, 1769-1770. in Hammond, George P.
(ed.), 'New Spain and the Anglo-American West' (Los Angeles:
privately printed, 1932), 1: 165-182.
The
governor of Spain in Louisiana Alejandro O'Reilly (1725-1794).
Descendants of Alejandro O'Reilly have been in Cuba for two
centuries where, as Counts of Castillo and Marquis of San
Felipe y Santiago, their lineage is to be found in the
archives of Havana. One of Havana's main streets is the Calle
Oreilly in Habana vieja. |
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Boyett, I.
and G. Currie. 'Middle managers moulding international
strategy: An Irish start-up in Jamaican telecoms' in
Long
Range
Planning, 37:1 (February 2004), pp. 51-66. A twenty-first
century business management case of an Irish company launching
a mobile telecommunications network in Jamaica. |
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Brehony, Margaret, 'Irish Railroad Workers
in Cuba Towards a Research Agenda' in Irish Migration
Studies in Latin America 5:3 (November 2007), pp. 183-188.
[document] |
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Brown, Christopher L., The
politics of slavery in Armitage, David and Michael J.
Braddick (eds.), The British Atlantic world, 1500-1800
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), pp. 214-31.
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Burton, Gera, "Liberty’s Call: Richard
Robert Madden’s Voice in the Anti-Slavery Movement
(1833-1842)" in Irish Migration Studies in Latin America
5:3 (November 2007), pp. 199-206. [document] |
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Byrne, Thomas, 'Banished by Cromwell?: John
Hooke and the Caribbean' in Irish Migration Studies in
Latin America 5:3 (November 2007), pp. 215-220. [document]
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Caulfield, Carlota, 'A Taste of My Life:
Texts and Poems' in Irish Migration Studies in Latin
America 5:3 (November 2007), pp. 231.234. [document]
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● Cavanaugh,
James F. 'Irish Slaves in the Caribbean' in Clan Caomhánach.
[website] |
● Chinea, Jorge
L. 'Ireland and the Caribbean' in Irish Migration Studies
in Latin America 5:3 (November 2007), pp. 143-144. [document] |
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Chinea, Jorge L. 'Irish Indentured
Servants, Papists and Colonists in Spanish Colonial Puerto
Rico, ca. 1650-1800' in Irish Migration Studies in Latin
America 5:3 (November 2007), pp. 171-182. [document] |
● Cummins, C.W.
'The black Irish of Jamaica' in Assisi (1945), pp.
103-104. |
● Curry-Machado, Jonathan. "Running from Albion: Migration to Cuba from the British Isles in the 19th Century" in _The International Journal of Cuban Studies_, 2:1 (June 2009), pp. 1-13. |
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De
Verteuil, Anthony, History
of the Irish in Trinidad (Trinidad: Paria
Publishing, 1984). |
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De
Verteuil, Anthony, Sylvester
Devenish and the Irish in Nineteenth-Century Trinidad
(Trinidad: Paria Publishing, 1986). |
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Doan, James E., 'The Irish in the
Caribbean' in ABEI Journal (São Paulo), N°8, June
2006, pp. 105-116. Using fresh references and secondary
sources - some of them from Irish-American historiography -
the author covers Irish settlements in selected Caribbean
islands from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
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Durey, Michael, White slaves:
Irish rebel prisoners and the British army in the West Indies,
1799-1804 in 'Journal of the Society for Army Historical
Research' 80:324 (2002), pp. 296-312.
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Dwyer, Bernie and Roberto Ruiz Rebó
(directors). The Footsteps of Cecilia McPartland,
documentary film (Ireland, Cuba, 2001), 15 minutes.
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English, T.S., Ireland's only colony
(Montserrat, 1930).
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Escoto, José Augusto, Isaac
Carrillo y O'Farrill: autobiografía y poesías escogidas in
'Revista histórica, crítica y bibliográfica de la literatura
cubana' (Matanzas) 1:3 (1916), pp. 302-319. |
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Fergus, Howard A.,
Montserrat. History of a Caribbean Colony (London:
MacMillan, 1994). |
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Fernandez Moya, Rafael, 'The Irish
Presence in the History and Place Names of Cuba' in
Irish Migration Studies in Latin America 5:3
(November 2007), pp. 189-198. [document] |
● Flatman, Richard, Jamaican memories of Irish
interest in 'Irish Family History' 9 (1993), pp. 20-24.
Memoirs from Irish settlers in Jamaica in the eighteenth
century.
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● Gosine, A. 'Marginalization myths and the
complexity of "men": Engaging critical conversations
about Irish and Caribbean Masculinities' in Men and
Masculinities, 9:3 (January 2007), pp. 337-357.
'Through reference to two programs that have attempted
responses that address the alleged "crisis of
masculinity" - Ireland's Exploring Masculinities
program and Saint Lucia's Men's Resource Centre in
Saint Lucia - the author identifies some of the
implications of a limited analysis and also discusses
some of the ways in which these programs provide
potential opportunities for a more critical
conversation about the situation of men and the
production of masculinities' (from the abstract). |
● Gwynn, Aubrey, Documents relating to the
Irish in the West Indies in 'Analecta Hibernica' 4 (1932),
pp. 136-286.
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● Gwynn, Aubrey, The First Irish Priests in the
New World in 'Studies' 21:82 (June 1932), pp.
213-228. |
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Hijuelos, Oscar, The fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez
O'Brien (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993). A novel
with an Irish photographer, a Cuban artist and their fifteen
children (14 daughters followed by an unexpected boy).
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Irish, James A.
George and Albert Murphy, Persons of Caribbean Ancestry: A
Basic Demographic Social and Economic Profile Based on 1990
Census Data (New York: CUNY Medgar Evers College,
Caribbean Research Center). |
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James, Francis G.,
Irish Colonial Trade in the Eighteenth Century in
'William and Mary Quarterly' third ser., 20 (1963), pp.
574-584. |
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Kinnaird, Lawrence, Alejandro O'Reilly in Louisiana, in
Din, Gilbert C. (ed.) 'The Spanish presence in Louisiana,
1763-1803'. Lafayette, La.: Center for Louisiana Studies,
University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1996, 74-76. |
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Machado-Curry, Jonathan,
Indispensable aliens: the influence of engineering
migrants in mid-nineteenth century Cuba, PhD
dissertation (London Metropolitan University, 2003). |
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Mackenzie, C.G., Thomas
Carlyle's 'The Negro Question': Black Ireland and the Rhetoric
of Famine in 'Neohelicon' 24:2 (1997), pp. 219-36. |
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Martí, José, El cisma de los
católicos en Nueva York in 'El Partido Liberal'
(Mexico) and 'La Nación' (Buenos Aires) 14 April 1887,
Obras Completas Vol. 11 (La Habana: Editorial de
Ciencias Sociales, 1991). |
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Martyniuk, Irene, The Irish in
the Caribbean: Derek Walcott's Examination of the
Irish in 'Omeros' in 'South Carolina Review' 32:1
(1999), pp. 142-148. |
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McGarrity, Maria. Washed by the
Gulf Stream: The Historic and Geographic Relation of Irish and
Caribbean Literature (Newark, Delaware: University of
Delaware Press, 2009). |
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McGinn, Brian, The Irish in the
West Indies in Ryan, Christopher (ed.), Aspects of
Irish genealogy 3 : a selection of papers from the third
Genealogical Congress (Dublin: Irish Genealogical Congress
Committee, 1999), pp. 55-82.
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Messenger, John C., 'Montserrat:
The Most Distinctively Irish Settlement in the New World' in Ethnicity
2 (1975), pp. 281303.
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Messenger, John C., The
Influence of the Irish in Montserrat in 'Caribbean
Quarterly' 13:2 (1967), pp. 3-25.
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Minto, Indianna, "Diasporas and Development: An Assessment of the Irish Experience for the Caribbean" Caribbean Paper no. 7 By highlighting the lessons of the Irish experience, this paper argues that while the Caribbean's diaspora has the desire to contribute and does help through remittances, there remain a number of challenges to this participation including perceptions of security and stability, establishing the conditions necessary for attracting investment and a lack of confidence in government institutions in the region. Available at:
[website] |
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Mullally, Rob. '"One Love": The
Black Irish of Jamaica' in The Wilde Geese Today
(website). Part I: To hell, Connaught or Jamaica; Part II: Red
shanks, bogtrotters, and pirates; Part III: The Irish, alive
and well.
[website] |
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Mulligan, William H., 'Review of Brendan O'Donoghue's In Search of Fame and Fortune: The Leahy Family of Engineers,1780-1888' in
Irish Migration Studies in Latin America 6:1 (March 2007), pp. 89-91. [document] |
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Murray, D.R., Richard Robert
Madden: His Career as a Slavery Abolitionist in 'Studies,
an Irish quarterly review' 61 (1972), pp. 41-53.
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Nelson, E.C., 'Patrick Browne
M.D. (c.1720-1790), an Irish doctor in the Caribbean: his
Residence on Saint Croix (1757-1765) and his unpublished
accounts of volcanic activity on Montserrat' in Archives
of Natural History 28:1 (2001), pp. 135-148. In the
1750s-60s, Patrick Browne of Woodstock, County Mayo, lived on Saint Croix and Montserrat,
where he gathered botanical species and left scientific notes,
including observations on the volcano's activity. |
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Nelson, E. Charles, From Mayo to
the Caribbean in 'Irish Garden' 4:4 (1995), pp. 28-30.
Another biographical article about the life of botanist
Patrick Browne. |
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Nelson, E. Charles. 'Patrick
Browne’s "The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica" (1756,
1789)' in Archives of Natural History, 24 (October
1997), pp. 327–336. |
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Nelson, E. Charles. 'Patrick
Browne (ca. 1720-1790), Irish physician, historian and
Caribbean botanist: A brief biography with an account of his
lost medical dissertations' in Huntia, 11:1 (2000), pp.
5-16. |
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Novillo-Corvalán, Patricia. 'Literary
Migrations: Homer’s Journey through Joyce’s Ireland and
Walcott’s Saint Lucia' in Irish Migration Studies in Latin
America 5:3 (November 2007), pp. 157-162. [document] |
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O'Callaghan, Sean, To Hell or
Barbados (Cooleen, Dingle, Co. Kerry: 2001). |
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O'Connell, Philip. 'The line of
Colonel John O'Reilly' in Breifne: Journal of Cumann
Seanchais Bhréifne, 2:5 (1962), pp. 84-104.
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O'Grady,
Joseph P, Ireland, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Civil
Aviation: a Study in Applied Neutrality' in 'Éire-Ireland'
30:3 (1995), pp. 67-89. |
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O'Kelly, The Mambi-Land, or
Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba
(Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1874). Translated into
Spanish as La tierra del Mambí (Havana: Editorial
Cultural, 1930), introduced by Fernando Ortiz. |
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O'Ryan, William D. 'General W.A.C.
Ryan, the Cuban martyr' in The Irish Sword, 8
(1967), pp. 115-119. |
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Power, Orla, 'Beyond Kinship: A Study of
the Eighteenth-century Irish Community at Saint Croix, Danish
West Indies' in Irish Migration Studies in Latin America
5:3 (November 2007), pp. 207-214. [document] |
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Prince of Montglâne, Eight Prominent Irish Families
in Cuba in 'Dun Laoghaire Genealogical Society Journal', 8
(1999), 11-20. Includes Coppinger, Duany, O'Farrill, O'Gaban,
Kindelan, Madan, O'Naghten, and O'Reilly families, with
information taken from Francisco Xavier de Santa Cruz's Historia
de Familias Cubanas (1940). |
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Quintana
Garcia, Jose Antonio, 'John Dynamite: Marine Mambí' in
Irish Migration Studies in Latin America 5:3 (November
2007), pp. 221-224. [document]
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Rodgers, Nini. 'The Irish in the Caribbean 1641-1837: An
Overview' in Irish Migration Studies in Latin America
5:3 (November 2007), pp. 145-156. [document] |
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Rodgers, Nini. Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery, 1612-1865
(London:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 403 pages, ISBN 0333770994. Review
by Gera Burton, and Author's Reply, in Irish Migration
Studies in Latin America 5:3 (November 2007), pp. 241-248.
[document] |
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Rothman, Adam. "Lafcadio Hearn in
New Orleans and the Caribbean" in Atlantic Studies, 5:2
(August 2008, pp. 265-283. Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
was born in Greece, the son Charles Hearn of County Offaly and
Rosa Antonia Kassimati of Athens. He was the author of
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things and other
books about Japan. Hearn arrived in New Orleans in 1877 and
spent the next thirteen years of his life in Louisiana and the
Caribbean. Among his works of this period are Chita
(1889), Two Years in the French West Indies (1890), and
Youma (1890). |
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Ruiz Rebo, Roberto. Che, Legado
Irlandés (2000). Documentary produced by
Televisión Cubana in cooperation with Bernie Dwyer,
Addys Cupull and Froilán González, based on the Che Guevara's
Irish connections. Bernie Dwyer and Ruiz Rebo have made three
other documentary films together, Che in Ireland (Che
Guevara's visit to Dublin in 1964), 2001; The Footprints of
Cecilia McPartland (Irish mother of Cuban revolutionary
Julio Antonio Mella), 2002; and Mission Against Terror
(case of the so-called Cuban Five), 2004. Their documentaries
have been screened throughout Europe and at the Havana Film
Festival and have won several filmmaking prizes in Cuba. |
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Ryan, Ramor. _Clandestines: the pirate journals of an Irish Exile_ (London: AK Press, 2006), 160 pages, ISBN 978-1904859550. |
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Senior, Carl, Limerick 'slaves'
for Jamaica in 'Old Limerick Journal' 19 (1986), pp.
33-40. Transportation from Limerick to Jamaica in the 1840s. |
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Serrano Alvarez, José Manuel and
Allan J. Kuethe. 'La familia O`farrill y la élite habanera' in
Ruiz Rivera, Julián Bautista, Luis Navarro García and
Manuela Cristina García Bernal (eds.), Elites urbanas en
Hispanoamérica (de la conquista a la independencia)
(Seville: Universidad de Sevilla, 2005), pp. 203-212. |
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Singleton, Theresa A. 'Slavery and
Spatial Dialectics on Cuban Coffee Plantations' in World
Archaeology, 33:1, The Archaeology of Slavery (June 2001),
pp. 98-114. Interesting findings in the sugar plantation El
Cafetal del Padre of the O'Farrill family. |
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Skinner,
Jonathan, Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity in
Montserrat (Kingston, Jamaica: Arawak, 2004). Chapters six
and seven include an anthropologist's view of the identity
problems of the Black Irish, and thoughts on the celebration
of St. Patrick's Day in Montserrat. Review by Cielo G. Festino,
and Author's Reply, in Irish Migration Studies in Latin
America, 5:3 (November 2007), pp. 235-240. [document] |
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Silén, Juan Angel. Nosotros Solos, Sinn Fein - We
Ourselves: Pedro Albizu Campos y el Nacionalismo Irlandés
(San Juan: Editorial Librería Norberto González, 1996). |
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Taylor, Herb, A Search for
Butlers in the West Indies in 'Journal of the Butler
Society' 2:4 (1985), pp. 377-386. |
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Tewfik, Lamia, ‘"I arise and go
with William Butler Yeats…": Cultural Dovetailing in Lorna
Goodison’s "Country Sligoville"' in Irish Migration Studies
in Latin America 5:3 (November 2007), pp. 225-230. [document] |
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Thomas, Hugh, Cuba: Or, The
Pursuit of Freedom (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode,
1971), includes biographies of some of the Cuban
families with Irish origins. Among them, Richard O'Farrill,
born in Montserrat, slave captain and South Sea Co. agent in
Havana in 1713, married in 1720 to María Josefa de Arriola.
O'Farrill was granted Spanish citizen in 1722 and was the head
of a powerful group. By the mid-nineteenth century, the
O'Farrills owned six sugar mills worth £400,000, 1,458 slaves
and 620 pairs of oxen, with an annual net profit of £65,000.
Other families and individuals mentioned are Leopoldo
O'Donnell, Alejandro O'Reilly, Thomas Duggan, Richard Madden,
J.J. O'Kelly, and John L. O'Sullivan. |
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Thompson, Livingstone, Economic
success and religious affiliation in 'Jamaica
Gleaner' (Kingston), 3 September 2006. [website] |
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Truxes, T.M. 'Transnational trade in the wartime North
Atlantic: The voyage of the snow Recovery' in
Business History Review,
79:4 (December 2005), pp. 751-780. 'The voyage of a
small ocean-going trading vessel, of a type known as a
snow, provides a window into the world of war-time
commerce in the late colonial period. In March 1760,
the snow Recovery, which was owned by a
consortium of North American and Irish businessmen,
traveled from New York City to Belfast, Ireland, and
from there to the tiny Dutch island of Curaçao' (from
the abstract). |
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Uris, J. The Black Irish (1976), a documentary
film aired by RTÉ on 29 September 1976. Duration:
34.37. 'The Island of Montserrat in the West Indies
was colonized by the Irish in the early 17th century.
The film tells the story of this colonization and
shows how the natives have inherited many of the
distinctive features of their Irish forefathers. There
are Fogartys, Sweeneys, Dalys, and many other Irish
names, living in places called Galway, Kinsale, Cork
and Dublin."Boxer"' (from Radharc website, cited 30
July 2007). |
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Wells, J.C., The Brogue that
Isn't in 'Journal of the International Phonetic
Association' (Victoria, BC, Canada), 10 (1980), pp.
74-79. The author concludes that 'in terms of
linguistic influence, then, the Irish contribution to
Montserrat has been vanishingly small. [...] Of the
vaunted "soft Irish brogue" the Emerald Isle of the
Caribbean retains barely the tiniest trace.' [website] |
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Williams, J.J., Whence
the 'black Irish' of Jamaica? (New York, 1932). |
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Yates, Geoffrey S., The Irish Legion in Jamaica
in 'Jamaican Historical Society Bulletin' 10, pp.
122-123. |
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