Irish Caribbeans are people who live in the Caribbean, but are descended from people who were born in Ireland...
Irish immigration to the Caribbean dates back to the 17th century...
Following Cromwell's victory in Ireland in 1653, it is estimated that as many as 30,000 Catholics were transported to the West Indies, some settling on Montserrat...
So called Black Irish people accounted for almost 70% of Montserrat's population by the late seventeenth century, thus "registering the highest concentration of persons of Irish ethnicity of any colony in the history of both the first and second English empires"
So called whites account for only 2.7% of Montserrat’s population...
Penal transportation or transportation was the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination...
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