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 ...

The professor, who was born in Jamaica, wrote ... renamed Browns Town [ …] He brought over 300 people from Balleymoney, County Antrim, Ireland to Saint Anne [ …] but most were little more ...

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 ...

In Jamaica, Brown made his fortune as a lawyer ... Endemic poverty and intermittent famines in Ireland drove the people to seek opportunities elsewhere, where they found themselves at the bottom ...

Friday, shoppers and employees from Jamaica were reflecting on the ... Waitress Maria Friel from northern Ireland says many of her friends and family resent the queen, but not her.

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 ...