They laid their roots and contributed to Jamaica’s changing island and motto, “Out of many, one people.” Some Irish acquired land and slaves. Names like O’Hara and O’Connor were recorded ...

Rob Mullally, of the popular diaspora website The Wild Geese, gives an intriguing account of just exactly how Irish people wound up in Jamaica at an era centuries before the jet age. It has ...

“In Jamaica, people aren’t very aware of who they’re descended from or how they got there,” she says. “They might know that their great-grandfather was Irish, but not a lot more than ...

Sadly, during the 1800s, Irish moss became a major part of the Irish people's diet as the country ... and now mostly appears around the rocks of Jamaica. It's there that Irish moss became known ...

The exhibition focuses mainly on the stories of individual Irish people in the Caribbean ... who became governor of Jamaica in 1834. This is a significant date given that the Slavery Abolition ...