If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730. By Donald Harman Akenson (Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997) 273 pp. $55.00 cloth $22.95 paper
@article{Solow1998IfTI, title={If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730. By Donald Harman Akenson (Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997) 273 pp. \$55.00 cloth \$22.95 paper}, author={Barbara Lewis Solow}, journal={Journal of Interdisciplinary History}, year={1998}, volume={29}, pages={324-326} }
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From Montserrat to Settler-Colonial Australia: the Intersecting Histories of Caribbean Slave-owning Families, Transported British Radicals, and Indigenous Peoples
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- 2020
In February 2013 the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership database (LBS), hosted by University College, London went online, causing a stir not only in Britain but also amongst historians around the…
The World of an Irish Merchant Migrant to the Canadas, 1830–43: The Memoir of David Blair Little
- HistoryImmigrants & Minorities
- 2019
ABSTRACT In May 1830, a previously unknown Ulster merchant left Derry on a ship bound for Canada. In this paper I identify him as David Blair Little. Of a prominent merchant family, Little was…
What to Do about the Irish in the Caribbean?
- ArtCaribbean Quarterly
- 2018
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E.A. Markham’s St. Caesare: the other “Ulster”?
- Art
- 2016
Abstract This essay examines the invented Caribbean island of St. Caesare and its relation to the representational space of “Ulster” in Montserratian poet E.A. Markham’s collection Letter from Ulster…