When an Irish Famine ship struck an iceberg in the Gulf of St.Lawrence

Reading ex-Irish Army officer Sean O Callaghan's (2000) book, "To Hell or Bardados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland" (Brandon Press, 2006), reminded me of how the white slave trade and indentured serviture predated African slavery and our own famine exodus to the Americas. With Irish anti-Cromwellian prisoners-of-war deported (ie transplanted!) to the west-Indies en masse, as subsequently to Virginia. Disabuses one of Cromwell's peculiar brand of puritanism. Having internally exiled 3/4 (75%) of the then estimated native population of 1m to a 1/4 (25%) of its national territory, (ie Connacht/western Ireland), Cromwell's son Henry, as Lord Protector of Ireland, was forced to look further afield for surplus real estate for the remaining 1/4 (25%) Irish. A not uninteresting ratio to quantify English covetuousness of terra Hibernia, despite the 10th Judeo-Christian commandment. Hmmm! (With protectors like the Cromwell's, who needed attackers!) And many contemporary historical amnesiacs and neo-Cromwellians actually wonder why their was political violence in Ireland, then as now. A Hobson's Choice - Empire or Commonwealth, both of which were equally hells for Irish slaves or indentured servants. One finds oneself less favourable disposed the the English ruling class on reading this exceptionally well written book.

Sounds like one of the Fairy Tales Of Ireland make a Walt Disney movie staring Johnny Depp

Fascinating story. Something for me to put on my reading list.