The Irish of Montserrat, West Indies 1976

Kinsale, Montserrat (West Indies) is home to a unique race of people, ‘The Black Irish’. ‘Radharc in the West Indies’ takes a look at the Irish story in Montserrat and the legacy that remains.
The story of Irish immigrants is known the world over and the island of Montserrat in the West Indies is no exception.
‘The Black Irish’ opens with a tongue-in-cheek advertisement for holidays in Kinsale. However, this is not Kinsale, Co. Cork, this is Kinsale on the island of Montserrat in the West Indies. Settled by Irish people in the 17th century, there are still reminders of Ireland everywhere. The flag, the accents, and the names.
The film features interviews with local resident Patrick Robert Reilly, (singing ‘Mother Machree’!) school teacher Catherine Ryan, Cork man Barney Columbia, University Lecturer Dr. Howard Fergus, Post Officers Mr. and Mrs. Allen, and a Belgian Bishop, Anthony Demesne, all of whom provide evidence of ‘Irishness’. The legacy of Irish immigrants lives on in the names, religion, accent, traditions and sentiment of many of the island’s inhabitants.

[@gingerbg7602]

As an Irish man I feel such a profound connection with these people.. Amazing people.

[@danielleehim3077]

My parents are from trinidad and I had a lot of Irish mates when I was growing up in the 80s. I've been learning a lot about the irish in the carribean. The irish in jamaica were called red legs cause they couldn't handle the heat compared to the black slaves - (cromwell is a hero in england watch the film cromwell its a good film but you can see how much the english love him!) but the irish hate him. Its only through talking to people about our combined experiences that we can build bridges. Jamaican patois has a lot of irish and african influences. How amazing is that ?!!

[@evian6673]

They are your people my friend.

[@analyticalmindset]

Some wealthy Irish merchant families set up plantations and networks in the Caribbean which provided employment for the thousands of Irish immigrants willing to travel to Montserrat. Almost half of the whole population of the West Indies by the mid-seventeenth century were Irish.[9] By 1730 Montserrat's economy was almost entirely dependent on this industry which resulted in a change in the population demographics as more slaves from Africa were required as labourers to keep the booming industry going.

[@SobrietyandSolace]

@@danielleehim3077 My background is also Caribbean, my dad’s side are Pattersons. My mother’s maiden name is Kelly, her dad is Irish and my my grandmother is Trinidadian

[@daffymuck295]

@@analyticalmindset what are you smoking? Thousands willing to travel? They where sent with force not there own free will yea clown learn you're history they where basically slaves sent by the dirty English

[@nnekajeanette8061]

This is Amazing! I am half Nigerian on my father's side and half Montserration on my mother's side. I love learning about my cultures. My family and I visited Montserrat a few years back, unfortunately the area where my mother grew up was completely destroyed by the volcano, but we had an amazing time, meeting family members in person for the first time, learning about my African and Irish heritage, and immersing myself in the beautiful culture, from the food, to the festivals and dancing, it was wonderful! I can't wait to go back!

[@analyticalmindset]

Some wealthy Irish merchant families set up plantations and networks in the Caribbean which provided employment for the thousands of Irish immigrants willing to travel to Montserrat. Almost half of the whole population of the West Indies by the mid-seventeenth century were Irish.[9] By 1730 Montserrat's economy was almost entirely dependent on this industry which resulted in a change in the population demographics as more slaves from Africa were required as labourers to keep the booming industry going.

[@violairish5518]

Love it

[@TheGreatWhiteCount]

Keep the Nigerian to yourself, not the most well liked people in Ireland

[@Holy1OfIsrael.]

@@analyticalmindsetThey just colonisers nothing more nothing less.

[@nliz7018]

My family’s from Montserrat 🇲🇸 such a loverly documentary wish my Nan could of watched this !

[@Daniel-OConnell]

Another great video from the Radharc series. The videos on this channel, from the 60's , 70's & 80's show how far RTE have fallen since the heyday of Irish broadcasting

[@mike8631]

Ah sure you'd have been moaning about something else at the time.

[@tommoon5063]

Full of self hating kommie kunts.

[@jimjiminyjaroo300]

@@tommoon5063 you sound the one that’s full of hate and self hatred😘

[@jduill]

Its so interesting. And historical

[@ashleigh3021]

@@jimjiminyjaroo300 Take your meds

[@marykategraham.205]

""This is a brilliant post from you CR's--- but also a great History lesson. I work with a Montserration nurse who can trace her Irish Ancestry way bk. The Irish arrived on Montserrat in the 16.00- hundreds thanks to Oliver Cromwell. It's island is known as the Emerald Isle of The Caribbean.. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE.. God Bless Our Faraway Brother's and Sisters- - and God Forgive The Evils of the People who banished them across the Atlantic to an unknown Island that reeked of Blood--- Sweat- and Tears....🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💚💚💚💚💚💚🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@nigelponsonbysmythe8453]

@Mary Kate Graham Complete and utter load of tripe, why do people like you continue to fabricate this sort of rubbish, don’t you have a life in the present?

[@rowdyelitehater8595]

@@themaskedman221 well said mate, she wont like your reply, it makes them feel better if anti english sentiment involved.

[@pinklady7184]

Jonathan Christopher My Irish ancestors were lords who fought against Oliver Cromwell and his troop. Because they refused to change their religion, they lost their castles, lands, cattles, etc. They lost their aristocracy, but not their surname. Cromwell did enslave many Irish. He sold many Irish slaves to Arab merchants and settlers in colonies. He selected young attractive Irishwomen for brothel ships and the elderly & disabled for the coffin ships. Many sharks were known to recognise coffin ships, as they followed those ships, awaiting for victims to be thrown into sea.

[@rowdyelitehater8595]

@@pinklady7184 they became the ruling class of monserrat.

[@themaskedman221]

@@pinklady7184 That's nonsense.

[@johnmcnutt7658]

Very touching history. You couldn't beat love for bringing peace and joy to a land. God bless our Caribbean cousins and their friends and relations 💚💚💚

[@adrianalog]

Nah you don't get it you ain't related to them your not indigenous to England Ireland Scotland or Wales. If you Caucasians how can you be indigenous to Ireland or England? Cheddar man and his tribe were the original Picts and Celts

[@Waterford051]

The gealic word for jumper/top is geansi. The same word is used in the Caribbean but spelled ganzee and originates from Jamaican Creole. Definitely had some Irish lad bopping around in the 1800's going in about his fresh geansi and caught on to this day.

[@eoghannp8619]

And here is where it gets even more complicated: geansaí (geansaidh in Scottish Gaelic) is a corruption of the word for the island Guernsey, from the use of Guernsey wool to make the said jumpers. So, in English, a jumper is a ‘Jersey’ from Jersey wool, so in Gaelic, a jumper is a ‘Guernsey’ from Guernsey wool. Funny, isn’t it?

[@user-yp3oj5se1i]

@@eoghannp8619 What's the source of that? that Irish people used Guernsey wool for jumpers and that Geansaí comes from Guernsey?

[@user-yp3oj5se1i]

"spelled ganzee and originates from Jamaican Creole"?? If ganzee originates from the Irish word Geansaí then how could it also originate from Jamaican creole?

[@bagel9542]

@@user-yp3oj5se1i do you know what a creole is

[@lebeautymarq8834]

Geansi also sounds like the Arabic word for ‘jumper’, جرزاية....a large migration from the Middle East came to Ireland in the distant past.

[@anthonyrispin9778]

That lad in the middle is a Sean alright full of confidence. And a twinkle in his eye.

[@Catswinter]

I visited Monserrat 35 years ago and never knew about the Irish history. I come from full Irish stock from both my parents and now I know why Monserrat had which an intense affect on me. Thank you, this really is exciting to learn. I hope to go back for a visit.

[@andrewprindiville119]

lol ignorace usually has an intense affect on people

[@nigelwhybrow9257]

I sailed over to Monserrat from antigua 12 years ago and stayed 3 days ,I’d go back again it was an amazin*place especially as it’s lost most of its liveable landmass ,because of the volcano,,,loads of great memories ,my favourite watching Rastafarian riding a white horse up the road past the cricket ground ;

[@tyronepower6521]

I'm irish and from tullamore here in Ireland and I to feel a strong connection with these people

[@SobrietyandSolace]

Hello from a Patterson/Kelly in the England with Irish, Jamaican and Trinidadian grandparents ❤️

[@tyronepower6521]

@@SobrietyandSolace hello

[@tyronepower6521]

@bastiat100% brother

[@tyronepower6521]

@@SobrietyandSolace we are everywhere globally us irish I have cousins here whose father is African Portuguese and Jamaican

[@tyronepower6521]

@bastiat our blood is of the finest people

[@anonymouscrank]

I first encountered the Irish of Montserrat in the late Pete McCarthy's "The Road to McCarthy" which devotes a whole chapter to the subject. This video was a great treat. Thanks for posting it.

[@apostlesamsonmontana5605]

A beautiful piece of history. As an Irish of Nigerian descent, its the first time am learning of The Black Irish of Montserrat. Wow. Africans have been under seige for centuries up till date.

[@iamachildofgodministry9360]

And so have the irish

[@brittanyhayes1043]

The Irish are white.

[@realonetho5333]

All black folk not from Africa

[@realonetho5333]

@@brittanyhayes1043 yea the new Irish who stole Ireland from the black peoples that was indigenous to that land

[@brittanyhayes1043]

@@realonetho5333 No White people are indiginous to Ireland. Nice try.

[@danieljohnson1924]

What a beautiful and fascinating film. Thanks for uploading.

[@genaholshouser7148]

Those children are just precious 💝

[@CM-eg3gl]

After Ireland, the only country that celebrates St Patrick's Day as its national holiday.

[@freebeerfordworkers]

It's generally accepted it was then the slaves knew their Irish slave masters would be partying

[@stjohnssoup]

@@freebeerfordworkersyou’re full of sh*te

[@joehiggs100]

Many thanks, great archive.

[@alwaysknow3356]

Excellent documentary, been looking for this for years, facinating. As an Irish woman I am very proud of these incredible people.

[@londonbowcat1]

When did you first see it

[@alwaysknow3356]

@@londonbowcat1 On KZbin and Dailymotion. But there was only a few minutes of it, this is the full documentary

[@Holy1OfIsrael.]

What the colonisers?

[@delby66]

A beautiful video. Very fascinating. Thank-you for posting this.

[@beautifulspirit7420]

Fascinating. Thank you for posting this.

[@kridgeway7017]

The denial of Irish suffering and any and alll " white" suffering is a way to pit us all against each other. This is essential for the ruling class to stay in power. It's really about class, not race.

[@msb9997]

Fantastic! Love these video clips

[@typower9]

Absolutely fascinating! Thank you

[@harrisonbergeron4957]

Cqjxfzauukto know pppppppp ppp0pppppppppppppppp mm mmmymmmm zum k

[@typower9]

Patrick Robert Reilly sang the McCrea song beautifully!

[@jonno777]

Great history lesson. Thank you 👍

[@stephenward7856]

Absolutely excellent sound for the mid 70's!

[@beirbua3968]

ABSOLUTELY SUPERB

[@finolaomurchu8217]

The children are gorgeous. All those Irish names, you know I can feel an Irishness off them. They have adapted well to the heat, it looks sweltering. It is quite green, even for the heat.🇮🇪🧚‍♂️☘

[@connsaunders9600]

Virtually all Monstrations have common Irish surnames. Not because they are of Irish descent - but because the Irish Slave Masters would assign their own surnames onto the Africans as a sign of Ownership.

[@emcc8598]

@@connsaunders9600 Absolute bollox. Your history was obviously gleamed from the back of a cereal box. The facts are the majority of Irish forced to work on the earliest Caribbean plantations were those transported from Ireland as part of British ethnic cleansing of Ireland. Many Irish transported against their will worked side by side in brutal conditions with Slaves on the early sugar plantations. Others emigrated as servants to their British masters where they had no choice to do so having been stripped of any means of living in their own country by the British. The vast majority of Irish like the freed slaves remained mired in poverty. Up to 1829 - the Irish living on the Island were subject to wide range of penal laws and restrictions. A small minority of Irish did become more British than the British themselves and were rewarded for doing so by being given jobs managing and running plantations. Some even went onto to own slaves themselves. They remain a true reflection of the great British Empire and the destruction and debasement of all people who were colonised by the British. Ps. You may wish to stop denigrating all ethnic Montserratians by you referring to them as "Monstrations" and yes there are indeed some people from Montserrat who do claim Irish descent. Little do you know - the most common surnames in Montserrat are infact British with just one common Irish surname "Ryan" in the top 10. forebears.io/montserrat/surnames

[@connsaunders9600]

@@emcc8598 Tell you what - Instead of getting your knickers in a twist. Google the 1768 St Patricks Day African Slave revolt against the Irish Slave Masters. Or any other matter concerning the Irish owned Slave Plantations on Montserrat..... See what comes up !!

[@emcc8598]

@@connsaunders9600 Looks like your own panties are in a bunch sunshine. St Patrick's day as it is currently celebrated started around 1985 in an major effort to attract tourists to the island. Prior to that "St Patrick’s Day was observed primarily in St Patrick’s parish, an area in the southwest of the island where early historic-period Irish settlements were numerous and where continued connection to Irish facets of identity seemed to be most intensely felt. " www.thejournal.ie/readme/st-patricks-day-montserrat-2662360-Mar2016/ Maybe go educate yourself - rather than spreading British Imperialist nonsense about those who have lived and who live today on Montserrat.

[@connsaunders9600]

@@emcc8598 Do you know any one from Montserrat by any chance ?

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

Great video ..thanks for posting

[@frunomaol5069]

Radharc RTÉ (a program on the Irish national broadcaster from decades ago) needs to be given title credit for this presentation, not just at the end. But it was good to see this program.

[@londonbowcat1]

6:10 1632 settled in St Kitts but left English Puritans to go to Monsterrat

[@MariaMartinez-kg6ns]

Thank you a lot beautiful video

[@icemanire5467]

Great video CR as usual.

[@heavenlyeden70]

Born & raised in Dublin Ireland & it makes me so proud to have connections with the beautiful people in Montserrat & other parts of the west indies.... I want to come visit this beautiful Island one day ....i always joke with my family especially my parents & saying I was born in the wrong country & I should of being born somewhere in the west indies & this was way back before i learned about our connections.....I always felt I have a strong connection with these beautiful people & their countries ❤️

[@Holy1OfIsrael.]

Your not connected to the West Indies, your a colonial offspring that’s all.

[@aaronboggs9719]

Watching this makes me want to visit there.

[@africareigns]

I was 4 in 1976. Those children will in approaching 50.

[@michaeloflynn2051]

These Irish, whose ancestors for thousands of years were cruelly and without choice displaced and deported from their own land, Ireland, only 400 years ago. And those planters that displaced them, Unionists and Loyalists to the British Crown, none of them have any receipts for the places they live on in Ireland.

[@freedomunltd]

So right Michael, it was malevolent beyond belief and is not that long ago when you think of the average timespan of a person’s life, the sufferings of which reverberate through the decades and centuries to this very day except now we are being hung out to dry by the gang of betrayers, chancers, hucksters and downright malignant excuses for human beings in the presemt Irish Government that would have withered and wilted into the earth with one penetrating glance from Michael Collins. It is criminal how the Irish people are being conned by these deceitful gangsters - but the utter devastation, fear, misery, despair, hunger, loss of any human rights and of any dignity in those Cromwellian times onwards, is almost enough to freeze one’s soul with the injustice and the suffering that our predecessors were forced to endure without end. And there had never been any public acknowledgment nor redress for this savagery imposed specifically upon the Irish people who were, in many cases treated much worse even then their black counterparts, if that is possible to even imagine. The book ‘The Irish Slaves’ by Rhetta Akamatsu, makes for gutwrenching reading - I have often had to stop reading it because of the sheer barbarity inflicted upon our ancestors which shows the boundless depths of Man’s inhumanity to mankind.

[@mandydunne7605]

Please go deeper in your research

[@videolad3057]

@@mandydunne7605 No, he summed it up quite nicely 👍

[@anfieldreds_1892]

and the blacks?

[@michaeloflynn2051]

@@anfieldreds_1892 Definitely They are Irish of course as they equally are decendants of the same generation, same as the current Irish people. Michael.

[@davedriscoll1652]

Thankyou, and God bless from Iowa!

[@kevanhubbard9673]

That place had a volcano 🌋 erupt and Kinsale and the capital, Plymouth,are now abandoned with people living only on the northern part of the island.

[@johnmcnutt7658]

That's right.. What a shame. Delightful people

[@tom79013]

All things must pass

[@siofra3819]

The Irish government need to help these people. Ireland helps Palestine and many other countries. I think these people should be first priority

[@maideegirl189]

Siofra, Are you truly mentally unsound or what?

[@gurglejug627]

"And to be precise 4182miles, give a mile or two..." A corkman?

[@cabaroigcostablanca]

Sure,and Fr Donnie is a friend of mine,told me all about,triple hibiscus,that the ladies wear 💪

[@niallcnoc9646]

There must be a bit of Kerry blood in him I’d say

[@TRCOnline1]

This a fairly well-balanced documentary from 1976. Note however, that it's reported from an Irish perspective and only skims over the story of the enslaved Africans, their modern-day descendants in Montserrat and the controversy among locals surrounding the observation of the March 17th holiday in Montserrat. March 17th was only declared a national in Montserrat in the 1980s mainly to honour the enslaved who planned the uprising for their escape. Also, as noted by the presenter, contrary to some accounts, not all Black Montserratians have 'Irish in their blood', and only a small group of Montserratians would fit the term 'Black Irish'. The term is not all-inclusive and is actually quite vague. There has been no real serious effort to bridge this relationship between those in Montserrat who claim Irish connection - or the entire British territory for that matter - and Ireland, especially the Irish Catholics. An opportunity for outreach.

[@johnnyd101]

His voice gave me chills!

[@londonbowcat1]

18:40 what race

[@likklej8]

Ireland Rasta reggae and Soca time on carnival too on great thank you

[@michealoleary8405]

Very interesting. Must visit.

[@a.patrickkilkenny3036]

Be great to go there for a few weeks.

[@Hitlabentertainmentus]

My family’s from Montserrat big up to the LEE Family 🇲🇸

[@glennlee2321]

I am a Lee my father is Gullah geechy from South Carolina maybe we have a common ancestry.

[@Holy1OfIsrael.]

@@glennlee2321Leigh

[@johnjoe5860]

We shouldn't forget there African roots that are just as important as the Irish! 💯

[@verdeoaks6159]

You must be a pan African. Chill out. Please.

[@Holy1OfIsrael.]

Not African, Israelites

[@msryan77]

Wow my great aunt was right my family originated from Montserrat. I’m a Ryan from Toronto and my father is a Ryan from St. Vincent and I was shocked to hear the teacher and some students with the same last name. Hey family ❤️

[@richardsingh5827]

Interesting video

[@lindareidy2091]

I love to watch this short documentary which is not well known to the masses unfortunately.

[@Holy1OfIsrael.]

They ashamed of their history that’s why, colonisers

[@glennlee2321]

This is very informative

[@bernadettekretzschmar8971]

Very interesting history. Thank you. I had hoped to hear something about the Dyett family, in particular about the one who had his Irish family in Montserrat and had more children with a slave after his wife died. Any info here?

[@londonbowcat1]

7:20 from Baltimore they came around 1633

[@melissa0386]

i would love to go see it

[@johnmcnutt7658]

Me2

[@Lonewolfwarrior111]

I got O'Brien's in my family.

[@mandydunne7605]

Fredrick Douglas felt very comfortable in Ireland as a slave on the run... He said for the 1st time in his life while in Ireland he was treated like a gentleman... Now if there were no black people, brown people here in Ireland why did he feel very comfortable...

[@MCKevin289]

He was good friends with Daniel O’Connell. One of Martin Luther King’s quotes on black history has been traced back to an O’Connell quote about Irish history. I wrote my capstone thesis about the cross pollination between the irish Republican movement and the African American civil rights movement.

[@emcc8598]

Because simply in the account of his stay in Ireland - he was treated as a person and not as a slave as he was in America From his book "I can truly say, I have spent some of the happiest moments of my life since landing in this country. I seem to have undergone a transformation. I live a new life. The warm and generous co-operation extended to me by the friends of my despised race-the prompt and liberal manner with which the press has rendered me its aid-the glorious enthusiasm with which thousands have flocked to hear the cruel wrongs of my down-trodden and long-enslaved fellow-countrymen portrayed-the deep sympathy for the slave, and the strong abhorrence of the slaveholder, everywhere evinced-the cordiality with which members and ministers of various religious bodies, and of various shades of religious opinion, have embraced me, and lent me their aid-the kind hospitality constantly proffered to me by persons of the highest rank in society-the spirit of freedom that seems to animate all with whom I come in contact-and the entire absence of everything that looked like prejudice against me, on account of the color of my skin-contrasted so strongly with my long and bitter experience in the United States, that I look with wonder and amazement on the transition." Please don't believe the bullshit about Ireland and the Irish being pushed by a few lunatics on the Internet. Ireland was a British colony for approx 800 years under which its native people were brutally subjugated. We do not need others appropriating our history for the purpose of divisive racial conflict in America or elsewhere.

[@chrisjones2224]

And as much as you might not like my opinion or comment, as I am a Brit, I completely agree with you.

[@jackholloway1]

Because people treated him well? Do you need to be surrounded by your own race to feel comfortable? I assume you're American in which case the answer is probably yes but for the rest of us that doesn't need to be the case

[@patreekotime4578]

The same reason James Baldwin and other black writers, musicians and performers felt relief living in France in the 20th century. Because he didn't face an unending system of racial subjugation in his every movement. Because for the first time in his life he felt what it was like to be just a man.

[@mattuboyle5891]

I was waiting for one of the childer to say..Gerry Adams

[@marykategraham.205]

"""Sorry Mattú --- Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit--- especially when it demeans the plight of Children in a NOW VERY SICK WORLD.."".

[@Will-cl9os]

I think what Oscar Wilde said was; "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence"....just saying!

[@connsaunders9600]

@@marykategraham.205 It was intended to demean Adams - stop trying to move the goalposts .

[@waynemcauliffe2362]

The real black Irish hey

[@verdeoaks6159]

Real “Irish”. These people match the descriptions of Great Britain nobles and middle class.

[@radwizard]

The starting opening music sounds a little like Spancer's Hill. Please school me on the correct beat.

[@herculesv1.247]

I think you mean Spancil Hill 🤔

[@emilygooner9697]

MY mind is blown I had no idea, fascinating. We really do get around 😊🇮🇪

[@Holy1OfIsrael.]

Colonisers

[@tamikahinckley7201]

They look just like my relatives, and I'm an allen

[@mirowestmaas4566]

😂😂

[@crazychickSHENA]

Irish are worldwide❤

[@Holy1OfIsrael.]

True colonisers

[@karlbyrne6021]

Listen to the song called A page in history by costello a dublin rap artist.

[@damarasquest6704]

Montserrat and Jamaican accent are very close. Both countries had the largest amount of Irish people in our population.

[@lenardbarzey2788]

How you know that? 🤔

[@damarasquest6704]

@@lenardbarzey2788 Reading 📚. Both countries accent are almost identical.

[@Holy1OfIsrael.]

@@damarasquest6704which white man gave you that lie in his book? Source please?

[@philsophkenny]

❤❤❤

[@tonymaxwellhatt1175]

All over the Caribbean there were Europeans, born and bred. Still to this day you can find small communities of German, British, and Irish. Places like Tobago has a newish community of Italians, and a much older community of Germans. Trinidad has always had British and Irish people living there. Most of the Irish people in Trinidad are connected with the Catholic Church. There was a time in Trinidad where most of the Catholic priest were Irish.

[@gatheringleaves]

Allen is a very common surname in Montserrat

[@lyte4240]

My Great Grandfather is an Allen... never knew he was born on tht Island.

[@Sean-jc6cu]

And it's not even an Irish name

[@gatheringleaves]

@@Sean-jc6cu Where does it come from?

[@Sean-jc6cu]

@@gatheringleaves Scotland

[@alishahrukh7319]

Historical

[@boobtoob2002]

“More Irish than the Irish themselves.”I like that you inserted that historical quotation originally said about the Hiberno-Normans.

[@mickymcl8359]

As the narrator said at the end of this video we could all learn a lot from the people of Montserrat.

[@waimbuthia820]

So many ironies here. People talking about coming to this island to "escape persecution" or for "religious freedom." Also, yes. Let's romanticize slavery & oppression! SMDH

[@Holy1OfIsrael.]

Whites always pass off they persecuted BALONY

[@Katara98]

you realise they were sent there are slaves also. I do agree its disgusting that once they were free they purchases slaves. But context is key here.

[@denismurfy]

Look at the woman’s face at 2:30 when he tries to hit the high notes!! 🤣🤣. Very, very interesting video besides.

[@lenardbarzey2788]

Lol 😆

[@AngelGomez-yv9vq]

Greeting!. My great-grandmother is of English nationality. Montserrat!. She died in the Dominican Republic in 1978. I want to know how I can get the nationality of Montserrat 🇲🇸 Her name was Henriette Daly. If someone can help me I would be so thankful!.

[@sosweet2996]

V good

[@newgrangetours3219]

Where can Iget a copy of this

[@danielwild.]

Grand, now I need another drink. Jameson for me and a round of Bushmills for those hooligans in the corner.......

[@delby66]

Jameson for me Daniel.

[@sosweet2996]

Hi

[@richardkeith9490]

The fella who was talking about red heads sounds like a Dubliner

[@breenirwin2356]

Does Jamaica have as much irish influence. Mooretown for example is in Jamaica Moore is a very distinctive Irish surname

[@LiveforGodalways]

Yes a lot of people in Jamaica have Irish and Scottish ancestry a lot of the people in the video sounds like my mothers family! Google the Irish of Jamaica.

[@lyte4240]

Do they celebrate St Patrick day in Jamaica?

[@LiveforGodalways]

@@lyte4240 I believe it’s a very small celebration most aren’t aware of it! We’re a lot more Anglo Irish compared to Montserrat!

[@januaryblack2021]

could refer to the Morocans

[@siofra3819]

@@lyte4240 yes I think so. The Irish and Jamaican living in England got on very well they lived side by side 80% of mixed race people in Birmingham are Irish and jamcian. There is even a meme about it England were they say mixed-race people saying they are Irish and jamcian yet live in England and don't claim English

[@Rasher1974]

I recently read the Tide between us about the so called "Irish apprentices sent to Jamica to work on sugar plantations" slaves by any other name.

[@barra6709]

Don't let BLM hear you say that, they've downplayed people's suffering to "Indentured Servitude". Years of labor to pay off transport to Montserrat, an island they couldn't point on the map let alone an Irish person in the 16th century.

[@seanolaocha940]

​@@barra6709 It is indeed very trendy at the moment to downplay the suffering of Irish prisoners sent to the West Indies by mistakenly claiming they went there willingly. But this shouldn't lead people to make the mistake of claiming that they were slaves who were in the same position as African slaves. The Irish who were sent to the West Indies were indentured servants, meaning that they could theoretically serve their indenture and then take control of a small plot of land. African slaves had no such opportunity, and crucially their children and grandchildren etc would all be slaves, whereas the children of indentured servants would be free. So it is important to note that the legal position of the two groups was very different. Now, in practice few Irish prisoners and their children actually survived long enough to serve their indenture due to tropical diseases. Coupled with the fact that they were crammed onto ship and transported against their will, I think it is fair to say that they were effectively slaves, or at least their circumstances were barely distinguishable from that of slaves. But the Montserratians who have Irish ancestry today are not descended from Irish Catholic prisoners but from the Irish Catholic (mainly 'Old English') sugar planters and merchants who owned slaves on the island in the 17th and 18th century. Marriages between Irish men and African women were quite common, hence the mixed race Irish Montserratians of today. The Irish were both the oppressed and the oppressor, the victim and the perpetrator in the Caribbean. People of various political persuasions may try to deny one of these aspects of the Irish experience, but that is not history.

[@themaskedman221]

No, indentured servants were not chattel slaves and this hasn't anything to do with 'political correctness'. This is about you, and others, twisting the historical record.

[@themaskedman221]

@@seanolaocha940 Irish Catholics on Montserrat were not "mainly Old English". That distinction had no significance in the 17th Century.

[@seanolaocha940]

@@themaskedman221 You're mistaken, the distinction between Gaelic Irish and Old English Catholics did still exist during the 17th century.

[@urbanlaurette6557]

The Irish were white cargo when they first came to monsterration . Irish Slave cost five shillings and a African Slave cost fifty shillings at the same period of time. Within the first thirty years most children on monsterration were greole . Irish mothers and African fathers. One was visiting monsterration in 1976 returning back from London England. After watching black wash of Tony greig cricket team. Yes the Irish were slav.

[@Paraclef]

OFC they costed less, you did not have to go far to get them.

[@rujeruby]

I was born in Montserrat...had to leave when the volcano erupted and my parents brought me to England!😅

[@gerrym.9354]

So, are they big or not?

[@koont666]

I'm putting a feckin claim In 😜👍🏼🍀🇬🇧

[@atilla4372]

When speculating on black history always assume the worst possibility. This is not the story of solidarity that people like to assume it is, montserratians obtained their Irish last names through the enslavement of montserratians by the Irish. What is commonly left out is that after their term of indentured was over many Irish then went on to purchase their own plantations. If you look up why Saint Patrick's day is celebrated for 10 days in Montserrat as opposed to 1 you'll see the Irish were far from innocent.

[@MsRichycon]

That young lad sitting down out side the hut 11.32 looks very much like the old fella with the documents hmm

[@ambiencelectronica]

Welsh and Scottish were also of black origin and moved out of the isles. Villages in wales are Hebrew names to this day. Bethesda, Nebo, Sarn, Hebron, Nasareth, Bethel, Elian or Elyon, Carmel, Peniel, Aber.. etc

[@BeltandBraces]

A Big History Lesson take note.

[@MA-yh2ko]

These people sound just like us in Jamaica

[@user-if4qh3up3m]

were the original Irish black? exhiled by Cromwell?

[@jamescoughlan8193]

That's mad there's no place we don't get to in search of a good drink and a bit of craic lol

[@feidhlimidhmacanaltha3644]

I worked with a man from Montserrat once, when he heard my surmame he was like "dat is a pimps name in my country blud"

[@connsaunders9600]

That's Jamaican dialect - not Monstration .

[@feidhlimidhmacanaltha3644]

@@connsaunders9600 thats what he said word for word, hes from Montserrat,take it up with him if you feel its cultural misappropriation.

[@connsaunders9600]

@@feidhlimidhmacanaltha3644 "Cultural Misappropriation" ......Do me a favour !

[@feidhlimidhmacanaltha3644]

@@connsaunders9600 "do you a favour" ? thats English Dialect not Irish.

[@connsaunders9600]

@@feidhlimidhmacanaltha3644 I have to make my reply in two parts cos the halfwits at the KZbin Thought Police keep taking it down if I post it as one sentence !

[@michaeljarvis5485]

Reposting with perspective for education, informati This a fairly well-balanced documentary from 1976. Note however, that it's reported from an Irish perspective and only skims over the story of the enslaved Africans, their modern-day descendants in Montserrat and the controversy surrounding the observation of the March 17th holiday in Montserrat. March 17th was only declared a national holiday in Montserrat in the 1980s mainly to honour the enslaved who planned the uprising for their escape. Also, as noted by the presenter, contrary to some accounts, not all Black Montserratians have 'Irish in their blood', and only a small group of Montserratians would fit the term 'Black Irish'. The term is not all-inclusive and is actually quite vague. There has been no real serious effort to bridge this relationship between those in Montserrat who claim an Irish connection - or the entire territory for that matter - and Ireland, especially the Irish Catholics. An opportunity for outreach.

[@lenardbarzey2788]

Stratian Pride, Worldwide...Ase'

[@ivandinsmore6217]

Sad how this place was destroyed by the volcanic eruption.

[@emcc8598]

What's true is Monstratians are a lovely people. Hope they all get to go home soon.

[@mattuboyle5891]

What a nice lad.. if say he's chewed a few trees and built a few dams in his day

[@djdownie3]

Hilarious

[@wakeoftheflood2]

so funny I forgot to laugh

[@marykategraham.205]

"""Thank u FortWarren -- Obviously a Man with a Brain - Heart-@- Soul...I didn't laugh neither-- as I'm so accustomed in this Evil world of Man's Inhumanity- 2- His fellow Man""--- Diá dháoibh agus Béannácht-Léat."""--- 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@marykategraham.205]

"""Your Mouth I bet could Chew a few Iron bars whilst un- blocking some shitty waters running from your Ignorant Bowel - pit.."""....

[@raybans8712]

@@marykategraham.205 lets not lower ourselves to op level Mary.

[@Bear304inc1]

Skipping the history of indentured Irish sent there

[@ramseybeshears6427]

Did you listen?

[@katejacobs5491]

Fr Peter Lemass

[@opencurtin]

Some suntan that paddy has lol

[@patrickr6505]

Yea not a redser in sight😁

[@lennybreau9323]

Maith thu!!

[@AuntyM66]

He needs to visit Jamaica to see the amount of people there with Irish and Scottish names.

[@adriancarlos9155]

Nothing to do with slavery, they didn't give the Enslaved their names,

[@SobrietyandSolace]

Yes, Patterson for one

[@damarasquest6704]

@@adriancarlos9155 A lot "Newell" I am irish descendant, black and Indian. 2nd largest ethnic group in Jamaica were Irish

[@igoutlawz7768]

@@damarasquest6704 indians are the 2 largest

[@mikemurr3510]

The cheek of him saying we past on more than our names...after reading out criminal names n crimes ..there is bad apples everywhere ..can't blame people from hundreds of years ago most of which were forced to go and be slaves ..you blame lots of factors like phycology, genealogy,nature, nurture, environment etc ..wow that part really angered me 😬😤🤬

[@ds2985]

This is amazing. Once we conquer the world peacefully there will be no more war. Up the Irish 🇮🇪😉😁

[@paddyt4043]

Those kids looked scared of that man ,or someone in that room 😳